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: [email protected] URL: www.sepa.gov.rs
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