Present situation of Pollutant Release and Transfer Register PRTR in Hungary

Present situation of Pollutant Release and Transfer Register PRTR

in Hungary

Gyöngyi Bejenaru-Sramkó counsellor

Ministry of Environmental and WaterDepartment of Environmental Conservation

[email protected]

17th of October 2007, EPER and PRTR System implementation and actuation in South-East Europe

EPER-E-PRTR

Legal situation• Regulation (EC) No 166/2006 of the

European Parliament and of the Council concerning the establishment of a European Pollutant Release and Transfer Register and amending CouncilDirectives 91/689/EEC and 96/61/EC” (the ‘E-PRTR Regulation’) was adopted on 18th January 2006

• EPER (2000/479/EC EPER decision) was removed from the active acquis


Differences

•More pollutant EPER 50 → PRTR 91•More activity (not only IPPC) EPER 56 → PRTR 65 •Stricter thresholds and emission level values•More releases

– Releases to air, water and soil– Off-site transfers of hazardous waste > 2 t/year– Off-site transfers of non hazardous waste > 2000

t/year– Off-site transfers of certain number of pollutants in

waste water destined for waste-water treatment•From diffuse sources and from accidents, too•Annual report


What to report

Hazardous waste (within the country)

Hazardous waste (transboundary)

Non-hazardous waste (within the country or transboundary)

water

air

soil1)

Off-site Waste-Water Treatment Plant

Identification of

the facility

Facility

Diffuse sources, Accidents

Supply of data of releases

• Measurement „Monly with international standard (Appendix 3 in Guidance Document for PRTR List of internationally approved measuring methods for air and water pollutants)

• Calculation „C” methods in Guidance Document

• Estimation „E”with technical calculation description


E-PRTR Regulation aims

• The E-PRTR Regulation aims to enhance public access to environmental information through the establishment of a coherent and integrated E-PRTR

• contributing to the prevention and abatement of pollution

• data for policy makers and facilitating

• Public access → public participation in

environmental decision making →Aarhus Convention


Activity SectorsPRTR 65 activities 9 activity sectors • energy; (2 coal fired power plants,10 natural gas power plants )• production and processing of metals; pig iron and steel • mineral industry; (opencast-mining for the production of cement)• chemical industry; (considerable sector)• waste and waste water management; (regional landfills,

waste water treatment plants)• paper and wood production and processing; (6 pulp and

paper mills)• intensive livestock production and aquaculture

(intensive aquaculture is not in Hungary, but the livestock production is very intensive: more than 50 % of IPPC facilities)

• animal and vegetable products from the food and beverage sector(while Hungary is agricultural country, processing of animal and vegetable products are important)

• other activities (it is not any plants for tanning of hides and skin, plants for the pre-treatment of textile)

New Activities

Which are not IPPC activities

• Coal rolling mills • Installations for the manufacture of coal

products and solid smokeless fuel;• Underground mining and related operations;• Opencast mining and quarrying;• Urban waste-water treatment plants • Independently operated industrial waste-

water treatment plants


Which are not IPPC activities

• Industrial plants for the production paper and board and other primary wood products

• Industrial plants for the preservation of wood and wood products with chemicals

• Intensive aquaculture • Installations for the building of, and

painting or removal of paint from ships

New Activities


Position of new activities in Hungary

– Now we are collecting that how many facilities are with new activities

– On the bases of Regulation facilities have to register to System of Database

– Regional Authorities of Environment, Nature and Water register and control the Facilities

– IPPC Installation register (LNYR) is corrected and augmented for PRTR system


Implementation in Hungary

– E-PRTR government decree for implementation (amendment of regulations for surface water, groundwater, air, waste and waste water)

– Conception development – Operators and Public Participation in

decision making– Produce of expert-group


New software and databases

– Development of programme for E-PRTR system

– Data Collecting from National Environmental Database System (OKIR) for E-PRTR databases

– Development and enlargement of the Database System of OKIR for requirement of E-PRTR

– Report for EU, statistics– Operators report directly though the

website of national Authorities

New website

Website will be available for public

– Building of E-PRTR website– query site for Public– Direct access to data– Diagrams, trends analysis in the

future– Forum


Collection of data

S W D GW

AD

E-PRTR Database

WD

Website

Report to EU

Air Database

Surface water database

Groundwater database

Waste database


Present Hungarian EPER-PRTR website

Background information

• UNECE United Nations Economic Commission for Europe Aarhus Conventionhttp://www.unece.org/env/pp/

• UNECE PRTR website: http://www.unece.org/env/pp/prtr.docs.htm

• Guidance Document for the implementationof the European PRTR on E-PRTR website

• E-PRTR website www.prtr.ec.europa.eu(former EPER-PRTR website)


http://www.unece.org/env/pp/



http://www.unece.org/env/pp/prtr.docs.htm

http://www.unece.org/env/pp/prtr.docs.htm

http://www.prtr.ec.europa.eu/

Thank you for your attention!


Present situation of Pollutant Release and Transfer Register PRTR in Hungary

Documents

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ec eper decision

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