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Pollutant Release and Transfer Registers (PRTR) as tools to access environmental information

This article explores the benefits and implementation of Pollutant Release and Transfer Registers (PRTR) as tools for accessing environmental information. It covers data dissemination, central database storage and management, validation of data, and the benefits for government, civil society, and industry.

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Pollutant Release and Transfer Registers (PRTR) as tools to access environmental information

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  1. Pollutant Release and Transfer Registers (PRTR) as tools to access environmental information May 2013

  2. What is a PRTR? Data dissemination Central database Storage + management + validation of data

  3. Benefits of a PRTR GOVERNMENT Increases efficiency and capacities PRTR

  4. Benefits of a PRTR CIVIL SOCIETY Empowers GOVERNMENT Increases efficiency and capacities PRTR

  5. Benefits of a PRTR CIVIL SOCIETY Empowers GOVERNMENT Increases efficiency and capacities PRTR INDUSTRY Involves

  6. Benefits of a PRTR Reportingbypriorityproductiveactivitiessuch as: • Energy sector • Production and processing of metals • Mineral industry • Chemical industry • Waste and waste-water management • Paper and timber production and processing • Intensive livestock production and aquaculture • Animal and vegetable products from the food and beverage sector

  7. PRTR international context 2009 2006 2002 2001 1992 * OECD Task Force on PRTRs (2002) * PRTR International Coordinating Group (2005)

  8. PRTR Capacity-building - UNITAR ASIA LATIN AMERICA Central America Ecuador Cambodia Panama Peru Mongolia EASTERN EUROPE Azerbaijan Georgia Kazakhstan Ukraine

  9. Establishment of PRTRs under FOI

  10. Legal basisfor a PRTR and FOI • At internationallevel: • Aarhus Conventionon Access toInformation, PublicParticipation in Decision-Making and Access toJustice in EnvironmentalMatters Article 5 obligesGovernmentstoprovidefor: • Immediatedissemination of information in cases of imminentthreattohealth and environment • State of environmentreports • Pollutantsreleases and transfers (“toestablishprogressively a coherentnationalsystem of pollutioninventoriesorregisterson a computerized and publicly accesible database”) • PRTR Protocol

  11. Someexamples - legal basisfor a PRTR European Union • “This Regulation establishes an integrated pollutant release and transfer register at Community level in the form of a publicly accessible electronic database and lays down rules for its functioning, in order to implement the UNECE Protocol on Pollutant Release and Transfer Registers and facilitate public participation in environmental decision-making, as well as contributing to the prevention and reduction of pollution of the environment”. • “Access to information provided by the European PRTR should be unrestricted and exceptions from this rule should only be possible where explicitly granted by existing Community Legislation”.

  12. Someexamples - legal basisfor a PRTR Switzerland • “TheSwiss Federal Council, basedonArticle 46 paragraph2 of the Federal Act of 7 October 1983 ontheProtection of theEnvironment (EPA), ordains: …ThisOrdinanceisintendedtoguaranteepublicaccesstoinformationonpollutantrelease and the transfer of waste and of pollutants in wastewaterbymeans of a register.” • “Access, in particular via the internet, to information contained in the PRTR shall be guaranteed for a minimum of then years from the date of its electronic publication, in particular on the internet.”

  13. Someexamples - legal basisfor a PRTR Australia • “A database to be known as the National Pollutant Inventory will be established to: • Provideinformationtoenhance and facilitatepolicyformulation and decisionmakingforenvironmentalplanning and management; • Providepublicly accesible and availableinformation, on a geographicbasis, aboutspecifiedemissionstotheenvironment, includingthose of a hazardousnatureorinvolvingsignificantimpact; and • Promote and assistwiththefacilitation of wasteminimisation and cleanerproductionprogrammesforindustry, government and thecommunity.”

  14. Someexamples - legal basisfor a PRTR Canada • “The Minister shall: • …publish, arrange for the publication of or distribute through an information clearinghouse: • (i) information respecting pollution prevention, • (i) pertinent information in respect of all aspects of environmental quality, and • (ii) a periodic report on the state of the Canadian environment.”

  15. Presenting data

  16. Database with “search” option *Source: CEC Taking Stock, http://www.cec.org/Page.asp?PageID=751&ContentID=&SiteNodeID=1097&BL_ExpandID=&AA_SiteLanguageID=1

  17. Database with “search” option Selection by year Selection by facility Selection by location Selection by activity *Source: Swiss PRTR, http://www.bafu.admin.ch/chemikalien/prtr/index.html?lang=en

  18. Database with “search” option *Source: Swiss PRTR, http://www.bafu.admin.ch/chemikalien/prtr/index.html?lang=en

  19. Geographic Information System (GIS) *Source: Swiss PRTR, http://www.bafu.admin.ch/chemikalien/prtr/index.html?lang=en

  20. Geographic Information System (GIS) *Source: Swiss PRTR, http://www.bafu.admin.ch/chemikalien/prtr/index.html?lang=en

  21. Geographic Information System (GIS) *Source: CEC Taking Stock, http://www.cec.org/Page.asp?PageID=751&ContentID=&SiteNodeID=1097&BL_ExpandID=&AA_SiteLanguageID=1

  22. Trend graphs *Source: Norweigan PRTR, http://www.norskeutslipp.no/Templates/NorskeUtslipp/Pages/sektor.aspx?id=34&epslanguage=en

  23. Trend graphs *Source: Spanish PRTR, http://www.en.prtr-es.es/

  24. Ranking *Source: CEC Taking Stock, http://www.cec.org/Page.asp?PageID=751&ContentID=&SiteNodeID=1097&BL_ExpandID=&AA_SiteLanguageID=1

  25. UNITAR PRTR design/implementation package Updated guidance document New guidance on legal consdierations Online reporting model PRTR:Learn ENGLISH, RUSSIAN, SPANISH 2013

  26. More information and links toexistentPRTRs in differentcountries can be found in http://prtr.unitar.org Thank you for your attention! vera.barrantes@unitar.org

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