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Norwegian Pollutant Release and Transfer Register

Olaug BjertnaesSFT, Section for the Chemical and Metallurgical Industry

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Facts about Norway

Population: 4,7 millions

Size: 300 000 km2

325 000 enterprises 20 000 manufacturing industry

Member of the European Economic Area (EEA)

• ”EU-light”: fisheries and agriculture are not included, environment is included

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PRTR

Pollutant Release and Transfer Register

Goal: Present data on emissions and waste from all activities in the society to the public in a simple and user-friendly manner

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Conditions for PRTR

•Regulations

•Responsible bodies

•Collecting of reliable data, both from point sources and diffuse sources

•Storing of data in a database

• Presentation of data on the internet

Design and structure of both storage and presentation of data

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Background of PRTR in Norway

Databases & internet presentations

INKOSYS Internal tool 1978-2006 Information on land based

industry BMI

The first Norwegian PRTR (2001-2005)

Data from INKOSYS Data from 1992-2005

Forurensning Replaced INKOSYS in 2006 Expanded internal tool

Norske utslipp Replacing BMI in June 2009

Regulations

National Regulations•The public Administration Act (1967)

•The Freedom of Information Act (1970 and 2009)

•Environmental Information Act (2004)

International Agreements•The Aarhus Convention (1998) ratified by Norway (2003)

•The PRTR Protocol signed in Kiev (2003)

•E-PRTR Directive

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Collecting and storing of data

Database

•A new and more comprehensive internal tool for SFT and the County Governors

•Includes more sources/sectors

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Collecting and storing of data II

The sector Land based industry contains: • 8740 registered

facilities• 1625 permits• 1577 valid permits• 274 IPPC-permits• 665 facilities that are

obliged to send annual emission reports to the authorities

• Approximately 100 facilities that reported to EPER in 2006

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Norske utslipp – The Norwegian PRTR

Ongoing project – replace earlier system Refined and expanded according to the requirements in the PRTR protocol The first version will be launched in June 2009 (demo is available)

It will contain emission data from the most important sources:

Land based industry * Waste water treatment plants Land fills Off-shore Aqua culture Companies that are subject to the emission trading scheme on greenhouse gases

Products Households * Transport * Agriculture **in todays PRTR

Point sources

Diffuse sources

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Annual reporting to the authorities

Responsibility of each facility with a licence• report annually to SFT or the County

Governors

• report emissions of substances that can have an environmental impact

• report electronically (since 2007)

The authorities• If facilities fail to report ->

compulsory fine

• Audits from the authorities ->check whether the facilities are fulfilling their responsibilities

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Data flow industry

Html-version is generated for storage in the

records

Quality controlled data are stored in

the data base Forurensning

Altinn-questionnaire

Data enters SFT in xml-format

Data enters the ”Validation tool” for

quality check

Norske utslipp,

(The Norwegian

PRTR)

Available for the public

Annual reports from the facilities

E-PRTR

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Data flow products

Quality controlled data are stored in

the data base Miljødata

Norske utslipp,

(The Norwegian

PRTR)

Available for the public

Activity data for products are

combined with emission factors by

SFT

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Benefits of implementing PRTR

• Ensure public access to easily accessible environmental information

• Ensure better awareness in environmental matters and give means of involvement and support from a wide range of stakeholders

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Technical & operational information

The start page on the Norwegian

PRTR

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Technical & operational info II

Norwegian PRTR

Emissions per year of dioxins and furans (in grams)

from land based industry

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Special features of Norwegian PRTR

• Easy accessible data for everyone, as few keyclicks away as possible

• Diffuse sources are included

• The biggest polluters are listed (industry)

• Possible to sort by source (transport and industry)

• Possible to present waste data on aggregated and detailed level