| Pollutant Release and Transfer Registers (PRTR)
The overall objective of the IOMC Pollutant Release and Transfer Registers Coordinating Group is to
improve coordination between international organisations, governments and other interested parties o
their ongoing and planned efforts related to the further development and implementation of PRTR
General data protection makes collected data inaccessible for public and it is expensive for the national budget.
Example: In the Czech Republic the trade secret is defined as "all company's realities of trade, production
or technical character which have real or at least potential material or non-material value and which are not
usually accessible in the business circles should be protected"(according to paragraph 17, the trades code,
513/1991 Act Collection ). But this definition is too wide for the PRTR system. According to the Czech system
REZZO ( the register of air-pollutant sources) all pollutants are allowed to call certain datum a subject
of the trade secret even with no reason. The wide definition of the trade secret the is balanced by
the act of access to information in some countries, e.g. in Canada. This act can cancel the secret
of an information. And in some other codes the term "the trade secret" is defined more strictly.
When fuels burn they are converted to various substances, some of which are NPI listed substances.
The non-combustible portion of the fuel remains as a solid waste. The coarser, heavier waste is called bottom ash
and is extracted from the burner, and the lighter, finer portion is fly ash and is usually emitted as particulates
through the stack. Products of incomplete combustion include carbon monoxide, sulfur oxides, oxides of nitrogen, acid gases
and organie compounds. Metals and their compounds may also be entrained (carried forward by a stream of gas or vapour of fine liuid droplets).
A number of techniues exist to assist complete combustion and to remove some emissions.
European PRTR means Pollutant Release and Transfer Register. The European PRTR aims to inform the public on environmental issues by providing data about releases of pollutants to the environment and to compile them on a publicly accessible database. In consequence it can contribute to reduce releases of substances which influence the environment and human beings. The European PRTR has been established by regulation 166/2006/EC on the first reporting is forseen for the reporting year 2007. For releases to air data for the sectors transport (road traffic, aviation, shipping and railway), military, domestic fuel combustion, solvent use, fossil fuel distribution, agriculture and roofing and road paving with asphalt are included in the inventory. For releases to water diffuse source sectors identified include natural background losses, agriculture, scattered dwellings and diffuse anthropogenic. A pathway related reporting on releases into water based on the MONERIS model - exemplarily presented in the inventory for the Danube river basin - differentiated releases from groundwater, tile drainage, erosion, surface runoff, atmospheric deposition and urban areas. You can find definitions for all sources sectors and pathways within the glossary.The European PRTR is the European Pollutant Release and Transfer Register established on the basis of the European PRTR Regulation 166/2006/EC, which entered into force in February 2006.
Energy Efficiency in Government Operations (EEGO) aims to improve energy efficiency, and consequently reduce the whole of life cost and environmental impact of Government operations, and by so doing, lead the community by example.
The Regulation has incorporated the provisions of the UN-ECE Protocol on Pollutant Release and Transfer Register under the Aarhus Convention, which was adopted at the Ministerial Conference 'Environment for Europe' in Kiev in May 2003 and has been ratified for the European Union by Council Decision 2006/61/EC. European PRTR Regulation 166/2006/EC |
