Implementing Provisions for Reporting – Resources needed for AQ reporting

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Resources needed for AQ reporting

Service contract to provide support to the Commission services in the preparation of Implementing Provisions under a new directive on ambient air quality

Questionnaire distributed to the AQ data providers in the Member States (10th August 2010) to compare the efforts used for the present reporting obligations to the implementation of the obligations according to the IPR.

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Questionnaire

Present AQ reporting obligations: Annual AQ report 2004/461/EC (including amendments for

4th DD) Monthly ozone reporting Summer ozone reporting Exchange of Information 97/101/EC (i.e. DEM) Information about plans and programmes (2004/224/EC)

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New elements of reporting Zones  and agglomerations Provisional reporting of zoning information Description of assessment regime Provisional reporting of the assessment regime Information related to attainment of environmental objectives Aggregated valid assessment data Description of assessment meta-data for fixed monitoring Provisional update of assessment meta-data for near real time consistency Description of assessment meta-data for other assessment methods Valid primary monitoring data Near Real Time Exchange (mandatory part) Exceedance of information and alert thresholds Information about air quality management Annual update of air quality management information

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New reporting obligations

Questions for each data set: Is there a need for new data generation? Is there a need for new data compilation? Expenditure for implementation (one-time)(workdays or €) Annual expenditure (workdays or €) Benefits (workdays or €) Comments

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Overview of replies 13 Member states answered (7 „old“, 6 „new“) BE, MT and PL (and possibly BG) will answer till end of October

Number of stations per MS: between 6 (LU) and ~700 (FR) Number of zones per MS: between 2 (LV) and ~ 120 (DE)

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Present reporting – AQ data 13

Present reporting – Plans & Programmes 10

New reporting – implementation – assessment information 7

New reporting – implementation – zones, AQ management 5

New reporting – annual costs 6

Stucture of AQ data management

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All tasks carried out centrally by one agency FR, HU, LT, LV, LU, RO, UK

Tasks split among several agencies on the national level

CZ, NL

Tasks split among several agencies on the national and regional level

AT, DE

Tasks split among several agencies on the national, regional and local level

SE

Present reporting obligationsAQ information: between 18 days (LU) and 385 working days (DE)

Reporting Plans&Programmes: between 4 days (AT) and 97 working days (RO)

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Present reporting obligationsWorkdays for AQ information reporting per monitoring station: between 0.14 (AT) and 12.4 (LV)

About 0.2 workdays/station: AT, CZ, FR, SE, UKAbout 0.6 - 0.9 workdays/ station: DE, NL, SI, RO3 workdays/station: LU4 workdays/station: HU7 workdays/station: LT12 workdays/station: LV

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AQ data reporting

Share of costs for total AQ data reporting: Annual AQ report: between 19% (FR) and 78% (DE) Monthly and summer ozone reporting: between 3% (LU) and 21%

(LV) EoI data: between 16% (DE) and 67% (FR)

Relation of costs for Annual report and EoI data submission:

Annual report ≈ 1/3 EoI data: FR

Annual report ≈ 1/2 EoI data: LV, AT

Annual report ≈ 3/4 EoI data: LU, NL, SI

Annual report ≈ EoI data: CZ, HU, LT, SE

Annual report ≈ 1.5 EoI data: UK

Annual report ≈ 3 EoI data: RO

Annual report ≈ 5 EoI data: DE 10

Present reporting obligations

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Highest workload for single tasks: MS Days

Annual AQ report – input into excel file DE 140

Reporting of Plans&Programmes - Importing information from AQ plan to forms

DE 80

Reporting of Plans&Programmes - Importing information from AQ plan to forms

RO 70

Exchange of Information – QA of import [not using DEM] FR 50

Annual AQ report – exceedance reasons, natural sources, winter sanding

DE 45

Exchange of Information - Preparation of AQ data in import format LV 42

Exchange of Information - Preparation of AQ data in import format DE 40

Annual AQ report – post processing QC, submission DE 40

Reporting of Plans&Programmes – adoption and submission HU 40

Annual AQ report – calculation of statistics RO 40

Annual AQ Report - Update of information of zones and monitoring stations

DE 35

Present reporting obligations

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Highest workload (in relation to number of stations) MS Days

Exchange of Information - Preparation of AQ data in import format LV 42 (4.7 days/station)

Exchange of Information - Preparation of AQ data in import format LT 30 (1.7 days/station)

Annual AQ report – calculation of statistics LV 15 (1.7 days/station)

Annual AQ report – calculation of statistics LT 20 (1.4 days/station)

Reporting of Plans&Programmes – adoption and submission HU 47 (1.3 days/station)

Monthly ozone reporting – calculation of statistics LV 10 (1.1 days/station)

Annual AQ report – exceedance reasons, natural sources, winter sanding

LT 20 (1.1 days/station)

Summer ozone reporting – calculation of statistics LV 8 (0.9 days/station)

Exchange of Information – Update of meta-information LU 4 (0.7 days/station)

Exchange of Information – Update of meta-information LV 5 (0.6 days/station)

Exchange of Information - Preparation of AQ data in import format HU 20 (0.6 days/station)

New reporting obligations – overview of replies

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Information provided MSs

Implementation – information about Zones 6 - AT, FR, NL, SE, SI, UK

Implementation - AQ assessment information 8 - AT, DE, FR, HU, LT, NL, SI, UK

Implementation – AQ management information 5 - AT, DE, FR, NL, UK

Annual reporting - information about Zones 7 - AT, DE, HU, LT, NL, SI, UK

Annual reporting - AQ assessment information 7 - AT, DE, HU, LT, NL, SI, UK

Annual reporting - AQ management information 6 - AT, DE, HU, LT, NL, UK

Estimated costs for the implementation of the new reporting obligations

Total costs for the implementation (new software, additional information to be reported) vary between 37 workdays (LT) and 1005 workdays (DE)

The ratio of implementation costs vs. Present annual reporting costs varies between 0.7 (FR) and 5.2 (SI)

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Estimated costs for the implementation of the new reporting obligations

Largest single positions: Description of assessment meta-data for fixed monitoring: DE, 2 years Aggregated valid assessment data: DE, 1 year Information about air quality management: DE, 130 days Description of assessment regime: DE, 85 days Largest single positions (per monitoring station): Description of assessment meta-data for other assessment methods:

LT, 30 days (1.7 days/station) Near-real-time exchange: NL, 60 days (1 day/station) Information about air quality management: NL, 60 days (1 day/station) Description of assessment meta-data for fixed monitoring: NL, 40 days

(0.7 days/station)215

Estimated annual costs for the new reporting obligations Total annual costs for the new reporting obligations vary between 18

workdays (AT) and 434 workdays (DE) The annual costs for the new reporting obligations per monitoring station

vary between 0.6 workdays/station (AT) and 1.0 workday/station (NL)

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Estimated annual costs for the new reporting obligations Largest single positions: Aggregated valid assessment data: DE, 55 days Description of assessment regime: DE, 50 days Provisional reporting of the assessment regime: DE, 50 days Valid primary monitoring data: DE, 50 days Largest single positions (per monitoring station): Valid primary monitoring data: LT: 30 days (1.7 days/station) Assessment meta-data for other assessment methods: LT: 30 days (1.7

days/station) Information of attainment of environmental objectives: LT: 25 (1.4

days/station) Air quality management information: HU, 40 days (1.3 days/station)

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Annual costs for the new reporting obligations – Zones and AQ assessment

Change of the annual costs for the new reporting obligations for zones and for AQ assessment compared to the annual costs for the present reporting of AQ data:AT, UK: -50% SI: -30%DE, HU: -10%LT, NL: no change

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Annual costs for the new reporting obligations – AQ management information

Change of the annual costs for the new reporting obligations for AQ management information (first-time reporting considered as part of implementation) compared to the annual costs for the present reporting of plans & programmes:DE, UK: -40%AT, HU: -10%NL: no change

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Conclusions

1. Estimates on the costs for the implementation as well as the annual expenditure for the new reporting obligations are very vague, until the contents of the IPR are finally decided, and until clear information on the data model and the IT-technical solutions for data transfer and the user-interfaces are fairly well known.

2. Much work is done manually at present, especially in some smaller eastern MSs.

3. The new IPR may reduce the annual efforts for reporting by up to 50% - but some MSs estimate the same workload as presently.

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Contact & Information

Wolfgang Spangl

0043 1 31304 5861, wolfgang.spangl@umweltbundesamt.at

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