PRTR data quality and management

Nebojsa Redzic Environmental Protection Agency

Republic of Serbia

CONTENT

• PRTR in Serbia

• Data management

• Data quality management

• Serbian PRTR portal

• Future activities

• Connect PRTR register and other conventions

PRTR in Serbia

• SEPA started with implementation of PRTR protocol and E-PRTR directive in 2008.

• Serbia adopted PRTR protocol and E-PRTR directive 166/2006 through the Bylaw of National Register of Pollution Sources (Off gazette, no. 91/2010).

• PRTR protocol ratified in 2011.

• IS developed in 2012.

• GIS developed in 2016.

PRTR in Serbia Capacity thresholds (Annex I) are implemented.

Thresholds for releases (Annex II) are not implemented. All amounts of all released pollutants must be reported.

All data in Format for the data reporting (Annex III) are obligatory.

Additional data in forms:

1. Raw materials consumption, fuel consumption, amount of products,

2. Technical data about stacks, wastewater outlets, waste management.

There is no confidentiality toward SEPA – All data must be reported. SEPA take care about confidentiality.

SEPA take care of reporting due to thresholds for releases.

Data are collected once a year.

PRTR in Serbia

In 2014. PRTR register in Serbia covers 292 facilities.

PRTR

code SECTOR

No of

facilities

1 Energy sector 36

2 Production and processing of metals 25

3 Mineral industry 58

4 Chemical industry 19

5 Waste and waste water management 18

6 Paper and wood production processing 8

7 Intensive livestock prodycion and aquaculture 102

8 Animal and vegetable products… 22

9 Other activities 4

292TOTAL

Number of reports

Emissions to air 278

Emissions to water 170

Emissions to soil 0

Waste management 250

PRTR in Serbia

From 2011. Serbia reported to the EEA E-PRTR priority data flow on voluntary basis.

Data management

For all these activities it is necessary to establish strong IT support

• Modular IT system – Master data and Annual data.

• GIS component.

• Facilities have obligation to report using IT system of National register of Pollution Sources established in SEPA.

• No paper or Excel reporting for PRTR.

• IT system is continually expanded with the goal that all segments of National Register of Pollution Sources merged into a single system in accordance with national and international legislation.

Data management

Data management INFORMATION SYSTEM

• Bilingual interface – Serbian and English

Data management INFORMATION SYSTEM

• Forms

Data management INFORMATION SYSTEM

• Official reports

Data management INFORMATION SYSTEM

• Analytical reports – Dozens of different reports for internal use and reports preparation.

• Data verification reports

• Data compared through the years.

• Comparison between facilities

• Emission to air, emission to water, waste management reports

Data management INFORMATION SYSTEM

• Portal for data submission trend monitoring

Data management INFORMATION SYSTEM

• Data dissemination

Data quality

Data providers are facilities.

• Two types of data:

1. Master data – Name, Address, Technical data 2. Annual data – Emissions, Consumption, Products

All master data are mandatory and typed once, except in the case of changing.

SEPA compare entered master data with other data sources such as Agency for Business Registration, Custom office etc.

Annual data are mandatory for prescribed emission sources within facility and pollutants.

All data cells are protected from incorrectly entered data.

If all the required fields are not entered, the form can not be saved and user is forced to go back and correct mistakes.

Detailed control of entered numeric data is not possible but SEPA IT system, after entering, checks overlay values through the years.

Data quality

The Module for Quality Assurance of the submitted data.

German UBA provide their QA IT module and we adopt it for using in our IT system.

This module was developed within the framework of the

project “Support Establishment and Advancement of

Pollutant Release and Transfer Registers (PRTRs) in

Western Balkan Countries and in Moldova”, funded by the

German Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature

Conservation, Building and Nuclear Safety and REC

supervision.

Data quality

Overlay investigation in databases

Data quality

For ensuring high data quality from certain sources SEPA prepared guidelines for emission calculation:

1. Pig and poultry farms, 2. Mining, 3. Combustion plants – all size.

Also, SEPA prepared emission calculator – Excel files.

Serbian PRTR portal

Serbian PRTR portal

Search engine

Serbian PRTR portal

Search on maps

Serbian PRTR portal

Serbian PRTR portal

Serbian PRTR portal

Serbian PRTR portal

Serbian PRTR portal

Ongoing and Future activities

Ongoing

1. Update of guidelines for pig and poultry farms

Future activities

1. Translation PRTR portal into English

2. New project “Improvement of PRTR reporting”

3. Update mining guideline

4. …

PRTR register and other conventions and protocols

Existing PRTR register is high level instrument which can be used for data collection and report preparation for different international conventions and other reporting obligations. PRTR register with minor data changes and extensions can be used for fulfill many other reporting obligations.

PRTR and Emissions to Air

• All category 1c. facilities are at same time 1.A.1.a. category in CLRTAP and GHG inventories.

• All category 1c. in PRTR are LCP facilities and also, IPPC facilities.

• Some other categories also can be used for GHG and CLRTAP reporting.

• QA/QC of some categories in National energy balance used for GHG and CLRTAP reporting.

• National State of Environment Report.

• EEA State of the Environment Reporting Information System - SERIS

• EEA and other environment indicators.

GHG inventory

CLRTAP inventory

LCP database

E-PRTR register

Polluter pays principle

IPPC reporting

PRTR and Emissions to Water

• National State of Environment Report.

• EEA State of the Environment Reporting Information System - SERIS

• EEA and other environment indicators.

WISE database

E-PRTR register

Polluter pays principle

IPPC reporting

PRTR register

PRTR and Waste management

• Waste generation

• Waste landfilling

• Waste reuse, recovery and recycled

• Waste export

• Waste import

• National State of Environment Report.

• EEA State of the Environment Reporting Information System - SERIS

• EEA and other environment indicators.

Basel convention

EUROSTAT

E-PRTR register

Polluter pays principle

Extended producer

responsibility

IPPC reporting

PRTR register

THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION

Nebojsa Redzic, MSc Environmental Protection Agency

Republic of Serbia

Email: nebojsa.redzic@sepa.gov.rs URL: www.sepa.gov.rs