The European Pollutant Emission Register (EPER) was the precessor of the Pollutant Release and Transfer Register (E-PRTR). It was an inventory of emissions from a number of activities in relation to a specificed list of pollutants. The E-PRTR builds on the same principles as EPER but goes beyond it, by including reporting on more pollutants from more activities, and includes releases to land, releases from diffuse sources and off-site transfers of wastes and effluents.
The EPER mechanism applied to facilities falling under a range of industrial activities, and required the reporting of emissions of 50 different chemicals if specified reporting thresholds were exceeded as listed in Annex I to the EPER Decision. Reporting of the specified emissions was carried out for the years 2001 and 2004; the data may be viewed on the EPER website.
A summary technical report on Ireland’s submission has also been prepared.
Now, under E-PRTR, an expanded list of 91 chemicals must be reported (Annex II of the E-PRTR regulation), and the reporting frequency has been increased from three-yearly to annually.
The range of industrial activities covered by the E-PRTR Regulation has also been expanded relative to EPER.
See the documents and sources of information useful to industrial operators and waste facility operaters who must report under the E-PRTR
