EPER European Pollutant Emission Register

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EPEREuropean Pollutant
Emission Register
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EPER

• EPER is based on Art. 15(3) of IPPC-Directive
  (1996)
• ...and a Commission Decision (2000) on
• the implementation of EPER

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EPER

• MS deliver their data of reporting
• year 2001 by Sept. 2003
• 8 000 industrial facilities (IPPC, Annex I)
• 50 pollutants above certain thresholds
  
• Emissions to air and water, Transfer off-
• site of pollutants in water
• Internet launch on 23 Feb. 2004

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EPER

• Reporting years / report to Commission
• 2001 June(Sept) 2003
• 
  (15 states)
• 2004 June 2006 (25
  states)
• 2007 ??? ( E-PRTR
  ?)
• 2008

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European PRTR (E-PRTR)

• because of UN/ECE Protocol on
• Pollutant Release and Transfer Registers
• (PRTRs) under the Aarhus Convention
• . signed in Kiev, May 2003

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EPER E-PRTR

• 50 pollutants 86
  pollutants
• 56 activities 64
  activities
• 
  releases to land
• 
  off-site transfers (waste)
• 
  diffuse sources ???
• reporting every annual
  reporting
• three years
• 
  public participation

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EPER-Website

• All about EPER and its Guidance Doc.

http//europa.eu.int/comm/environment/ ippc/eper/i
ndex.htm 23 Feb. 2004
http//eper.cec.eu.int
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EPER Guidance Document (1)

• PART I General Explanation
• ...
• 7. Quality aspects
• timeliness, completeness,uncertainty,
• comparability, consistency, transparency
• Emission determination methodology
• Classes M, C, E

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EPER Guidance Document (2)

• Class M (measuring)
• emission data are based on measurements
  using standardised or accepted methods often
  additional calculations are needed to convert the
  results of the measurements into annual emission
  data

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EPER Guidance Document (3)

• Class C (calculate)
• emission data are based on calculations
  using nationally or internationally accepted
  estimation methods and emission factors, which
  are representative for the industrial sector

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EPER Guidance Document (4)

• Class E (estimate)
• emission data are based on non-standardised
  estimations derived from best assumptions or
  expert guesses

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EPER Guidance Document (5)

• PART II Reporting Requirements
• 8. Reference to available emission
• determination methods
• Atmospheric Emission Inventory
  Guidebook,
• IPCC Guidelines, EEA, US-EPA, UK, Australia,
  OECD, OSPARCOM, IPPC-BREF documents
• ...

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EPER Guidance Document (6)

• PART III Specifications
• Appendix 3 Indicative list of measuring methods
  for air and water pollutants
• Appendix 4 Indicative sector-specific sub-lists
  for air pollutants

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EPER

• Guidance needed !
• 1. Air emissions from landfills (CH4, CO2)
• 2. Air emissions from agriculture (NH3, N2O)
• big pig and poultry farms
• 3. NMVOC from measured TOC data
• 4. PM10 from data of dust

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Communication process

• EPER/PRTR-experts

• TFEIP/EIONET- experts