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Spanish Register of Emissions and Pollutant

Sources, PRTR-España

www.prtr-es.es

PRTR-España

Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Environment E-mail: [email protected]

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1. What is the PRTR-España Register?

2. Legal Framework

3. How PRTR-España works

4. Presentation of PRTR data to the public

5. Who uses PRTR Register and for what?

6. Main challenges for the future

7. Capacity building and awareness activities

Summary


1.- What is the PRTR-España Register


PRTR-España is the Spanish Register of Emissions and Pollutant Sources, which provides information on the pollutant emissions to air, water and land, and off-site transfer

of wastes from the main industrial facilities.

PRTR-España gives to the public all the information validated by the Competent

Authorities, following the criteria of the PRTR Protocol, the European Regulation

166/2006 (E-PRTR) and the Real Decreto 508/2007, and its amendments, when the

emission values are above the established thresholds.

What’s PRTR-España?

All the process is on the Internet: www.prtr-es.es


2.- Legal Framework


Scopes…


Some of the decisions taken at the very begining, which facilitated the transition to PRTR…

• not pilot experience /project • mandatory (not voluntary period)

• Obligation to report all amount of emission value • Reporting on yearly basis

• Methodologies of M,C,E (standards, chemical analysis, references) • Other spatial information (RBDs..)


INTERNATIONAL

EUROPE

SPAIN

Adoption of the PRTR Protocol - Aarhus Convention Kiev, May 2003, 21st. It came into force the 8th October 2009. Spain is Party of it, since September 2009.

Regulation 166/2006 regarding the establishment of an European Pollutant Release and Transfer Register. (E-PRTR)

Real Decreto 508/2007, regarding the information which has to be provided to the Spanish PRTR (Annex I: industrial activities categories; Annex II: subtances/ pollutants to be reported; Annex III: data and formats) and its amendments through the Real Decreto 815/2013 (IED transposition).

Current legal framework

Real Decreto 815/2013: new scopes, more facilities, more requirements


Regional Goverments

(Comunidades Autónomas)

River Basis Districs

(“Demarcaciones hidrográficas”)

Competent Authorities involved in PRTR…(not only the Ministry)

The first great challenge was how to deal with this point….


3.- How PRTR-España works


PRTR-España is designed as an integrated tool for gathering, management and

dissemination of data, located in the Internet, taking into account the Spanish legal

competencial.

This integrated electronic tool is structured in two levels of access with different

funcionalities: MEMBER AREA and PUBLIC INFORMATION.

FACILITIES (owners/operators): registration, reporting and queries

COMPETENT AUTHORITIES (revision, validation, uploading, data management): Autonomous

Communities (ACs), River Basin District (RBDs).

OTHER AUTHORITIES: water, wastes, air quality, ETS, national inventories and national statistics, etc.

SYSTEM ADMINISTRATOR (management, public information, int. requirement, hosting maintance):

Ministry.

How PRTR-España works (1)

Who are “members”


Member area

(data management): facilities, Competent Authorities and Ministry.

Public website Access to public data

and other information for the Public in

general and Stakeholders



All the process is on the Internet: www.prtr-es.es

Each member has different funcionalities

and periods of time to use it


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E F M A M J J A S O N D

31st March

1st April – 30th June

Registration and data

notification by facilities

Validation by ACs.

Validation by River Basin

District (RBD)

DATA SUBMMITTED

TO THE EU (E-PRTR)

(15 months after

reference year )

PUBLICATION OF

DATA in PRTR-

España (11 months

after reference year)

1st January – 31st March 1st July – 15th Sept. 16th Sept. – 30th Sept.:

1st period to review the information

16th Oct. – 31st Oct.:

2ndperiod for data review

Annual PRTR cycle How PRTR-España works (4)


4.- Presentation of PRTR data to the

public

http://www.en.prtr-es.es

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Public

information

available in

English, not

menu but

full

information

PRESENTATION OF PRTR DATA TO THE PUBLIC (1)


Search posibilities

Reported year (2001-2014) Free text (facility name, PRTR code) Region- Province River Basin District Industrial activity NACE Pollutant substance/group of subtances Emission to air, water, land Waste (hazardous/non hazardous) …

There are different

levels of accesing to

the Public

Information



GRAPHIC

Information

DATA LIST

GREOGRAPHICAL

LOCATION

(Google Map)

The information in

PRTR-España is

offered in data

lists, general

assessments,

graphics, etc.

Also: technical

documents

(BREFs, BAT

legislation (EU,

Spanish,

intenational)



[email protected]

www.prtr-es.es

+34 902 54 53 50

Suggestion/questions on line

Public

information/p

ublic

participation


5.- Who uses PRTR-España register and for

what?

Last update August 2016


Annual visits (average last 12 months)

Main users When and What for

1,200,000 (1,164,068) ≈ 97,000 per month

University, Tecnological Institutions, Competents Authorities, Industry, NGOs,

public in general , etc…

Resquests for information on emissions,

facility inventory, time series,

etc…throughtout the year

COUNTRY VISITS

1 SPAIN 425,402

2 USA 118,400

3 MEXICO 110,598

4 GERMANY 109,663

5 RUSSIA 95,001

6 COLOMBIA 57,611

7 CHINA 56,278

…

Others: Argentina, France, Canada Chile, Ecuador, The Nederland, Japan, Bolivia, Sweden, Italy, Poland, Guatemala, Ucrany, Rep. Dominicana, Portugal, Costa Rica, Turkey, Romania, India, Belize, Uruguay, Nicaragua, El Salvador, Korea, Brazil, Puerto Rico, Honduras, Belgium, Switzerland, South Africa, Belarus and 132 more….

Visitors to PRTR-España public web site (last year)


• Facility inventory; Data by facility; Data by pollutant/media (CO2,

dioxines-furanes, HM, SOx, NOx, PM);

• Documents (BREFs, BAT conclussions, Legislation).

• Customized consultations/requests .

• Not only public data (above thresholds) but also the rest of validated

data (under request) for polluting studies, scientific projects,

etc…(Universities, Technological Institutions, NGOs).

PUBLIC in GENERAL and other STAKEHOLDERS

Banco de imágenes y sonidos.

ITE. M. Educación

• Trends/evolution over the years.

• Monitoring /grounds its environmental performance.

• Being in line (consistent) with other reporting

requirements

• Development sectorial guidance for determining releases

/off-site transfers data (national/regional level).

INDUSTRY


COMPETENT AUTHORITIES AND OTHER PUBLIC AUTHORITIES

•Validation and historical data series revision.

•Coherence/consistence with other inventories

and international/european/national

information requirements (waste and water).

•Monitoring compliance of environmental permits.

•Definition of criteria for environmental policies .

•Studies, reports and/or comunications

on reporting cycling and statistics both for the CAs

and for the public (Congressess, Workshops,

Annual Reports, etc..)

RBD

Wastes

ACs

http://www.ine.es/


Queries from… Average

(2016) Main users When?/What for?

Telephone ≈ 202 Owners/operators During the reporting period

(questions, doubts,…),

E-mail ≈ 270

University, Tecnological Institutions,

Competents Authorities, Industry,

NGOs, also public

Resquests for specific /adittional

information.

Throughtout the year

Direct to the

system

administrator

≈ 84 Competent Authorities and

owners/operators

Specific questions, consultations,

doubts during the

reporting/validation processes

some statistics (2016)


6.- Main challenges for the future


• Ongoing works in streamlining/coordination/coherence at

national level (CLRTAP, national inventories, information

on diffuse sources, etc.).

• How to get a better use/comunication of the information

contained in the Register.

Main challenges


7.- Capacity Building and Awareness

Activities


1.-Technical assistance (UNEP-UNITAR GEF project (PHASE I and II): “POPs reporting, monitoring and information dissemination using PRTRs”. Countries in Phase II (started in 2015): Belarus, Cambodia, Ecuador, Kazakhstan, Moldova, and Peru.

2.-Technical assistance in several “EU Projects” for implementing EU environmental legislation

(Romania, Turkey, Croatia, FYRM,...)

3.-Task Force on PRTR (OECD): projects on harmonising PRTR criteria…

5.- UNEP/Mediterranean Action Plan (MAP). Barcelona Convention: June 2014, Regional meeting on PRTR and Pollution indicators. Ankara (Turkey). September 2014, Résultats de l’étude relative à la réalisation d’un Registre des Rejets et Transferts des Polluants (RRTP) au niveau des provinces de Tanger-Tétouan et Nador. Tangier. Morocco.

4.- Study Tours in 2014:

April 2014, Government of Armenia (Twining project Germany-Spain for the

implementation of EU legislation in Armenia. IPPC). Madrid, Spain.

September 2014, Government of Guatemala (Project AdA-Integracion Contrato

EUROPEAID/133932/D/SER/GT). Madrid, Spain.


http://www.unece.org/env/pp/prtr.guidancedev.html.

6.-Financial and technical support to Central American Commission on Environmental

Development (CCAD) to promote PRTR activities in Central America both at

regional level and country level (Honduras, Guatemala, Belize, Costa Rica...) .

Translation of the UNECE Guide on PRTR into Spanish

http://www.unece.org/env/pp/prtr.guidancedev.html


e-mail: [email protected] Telephone: +34 902 54 53 50

Some slogans used in awareness activities

mailto:[email protected]:[email protected]:[email protected]


More information on PRTR-España: www.prtr-es.es

e-mail: [email protected] Telephone: +34 902 54 53 50

Thank you very much!

Íñigo de Vicente-Mingarro

PRTR-España, Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Environment (T.A.)

Calle Téllez nº 24, 1ª planta; 28007 Madrid. Spain

Telephone: +34 917499121; Fax: +34 917499140

E-mail:: [email protected]
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