With the introduction of IPC (Integrated Pollution Control) licensing in Ireland there has been a significant increase in the level of reporting by industry on their environmental performance. This reporting includes a variety of reports covering such topics as discharge monitoring, waste management, environmental surveys and environmental management programmes. In certain cases, reports are required to be submitted frequently during the year but, where appropriate these reports have been combined for submission as part of an Annual Environmental Report (AER).
The AER comprises annual summary reports on all aspects of the environmental performance of the facility, with chapters on waste management, resource consumption (energy and water) and emissions to air and waters. The AER brings together a number of individual reports required as part of the IPFC licence under one cover, and allows for effective evaluation of the environmental issues on the site.
The IPC approach is a participative one, allowing each company to set out programmes for continuing environmental improvements through the promotion of the use of cleaner technologies, rather than end-of-pipe treatment. These programmes are outlined by each licensee as part of their AER.
Annual Environmental Reports (AER) relating to both industrial and Local Authority facilities are published through this website. These documents relate to facilities licensed under the following licence types:
Search now for IPPC, Waste Water Discharge or Waste.
Licensees must also complete and submit an electronic report of their emissions and waste transfers. This electronic report allows us to fulfill European reporting requirements for environmental data and develop key statistics on trends in the environment.
The reporting excel document is available for download from our website. This is available at the following location:
http://aer.epa.ie/prtr
Each company will receive in advance of the reporting deadline of March 31st each year, by e-mail, a unique system user name and password, which will allow them to download a site-specific excel spreadsheet. Once complete this can be reloaded to our website for integration into the EPA database. This system is live as of Monday 10th March 2008.
This replaces the AER summary information data table which was previously requested.
Download the guidance note on how to prepare an Annual Environmental Report
