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Reporting obligation for: E-PRTR data reporting

Title E-PRTR data reporting
Description Data reporting by Member States according to Article 7 of Regulation 166/2006/EC covering data reported by operators to the Member States according to Article 5.1 (releases to air, water and land; off-side transfers of waste; and off-side transfers of pollutants in waste water) and 5.2 (information on releases and transfers resulting as totals of all deliberate, accidental, routine and non-routine activities).

For all facilities which undertake one or more of the activities specified in Annex I above the applicable capacity thresholds, the reporting covers:
(a) releases to air, water and land of any pollutant specified in Annex II for which the applicable threshold value specified in Annex II is exceeded;
(b) off-site transfers of hazardous waste exceeding 2 tonnes per year or of non hazardous waste exceeding 2000 tonnes per year, for any operations of recovery or disposal with the exception of the disposal operations of land treatment and deep injection referred to in Article 6, indicating with "R" or "D" respectively whether the waste is destined for recovery or disposal and, for transboundary movements of hazardous waste, the name and address of the recoverer or the disposer of the waste and the actual recovery or disposal site;
(c) off-site transfers of any pollutant specified in Annex II in waste water destined for waste-water treatment for which the threshold value specified in Annex II, column 1b is exceeded.
The information shall include information on releases and transfers resulting as totals of all deliberate, accidental, routine and non-routine activities.
This reporting obligation is an EIONET Priority Data flow
Legislative instrument title E-PRTR regulation
Reporting dates and guidelines
National reporting coordinators
National reporting contacts
Reporting frequency Annually
Next report due 31/03/2014
Date comments Reporting: within 15 months after the end of the reporting year (by 31/03/20xx covering reporting year xx-2). 
Report to European Commission, Directorate General Environment
Other clients using this reporting
Reporting guidelines E-PRTR reporting guidance document (in 22 languages)  
Extra information “The European Pollutant Release and Transfer Register (E-PRTR) is available on the Internet at http://prtr.ec.europa.eu/. Next to the point source information reported by countries, it also covers releases of pollutants from diffuse sources, where such information exists and has been reported by the Member States.

Annexes to the E-PRTR Regulation:

-Annex I: lists the activities and the respective capacity thresholds covered by the Member States data reporting; including activities associated with thermal power stations, mining, quarrying and metalworking industries, chemical plants, paper and timber industries and also waste and waste-water treatment plants.
-Annex II: lists the pollutants covered by the register, which include greenhouse gases, acid rain pollutants, ozone-depleting substances, heavy metals and certain carcinogens such as dioxins.
-Annex III: Member States shall provide all the data referred to in Article 5(1) and (2) to the Commission by electronic transfer in the format set out in Annex III.

Template for resubmissions is available at: http://circa.europa.eu/Public/irc/env/e_prtr/libra... for completeness is available at: http://circa.europa.eu/Public/irc/env/e_prtr/libra...
Principle repository Reportnet central data repository  
Data used for European Pollutant Release and Transfer Register (E-PRTR) for the European Community
Type of information reported Data, Compliance