PRTR
Pollutant Release and Transfer Register
PRTR stands for Pollutant Release and Transfer Register.
Such a pollutant release and transfer register will provide online information on e.g. pollutants released by large industrial facilities in your region or neighbourhood.
What is PRTR?
Based on the E-PRTR-regulation (regulation (EC) 166/2006) industrial facilities of 27 European Member States report their
- Releases of pollutants to air, water and land
- Transfer of waste and
- Transfer of pollutants in wastewater destined for treatment in external wastewater treatment plants
Furthermore, the European register provides information on emissions from diffuse sources, e.g. traffic and agriculture.
Based on the UNECE-PRTR-protocol and the German PRTR-law (SchadRegProtAG, in German only) Germany will establish a national PRTR using data reported to the E-PRTR and including data on emissions from diffuse sources.
More information on PRTR
PRTR replaces EPER
The presentation of the German EPER data (in German only) is a first step towards a national PRTR.
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About this site
This site is developed and maintained within a research project by the LUBW LUBW (State Agency for Environment, Measurements and Nature Conservation Baden-Württemberg, Germany) and the Ecologic gGmbH by order of the Federal Environment Agency, Germany(Umweltbundesamt). This site would like to provide information on the status quo of Germany’s PRTR development to all interested people and would like to give the possibility of participation in the development of Germany’s PRTR. Furthermore you can get useful information and background knowledge on PRTR. In addition this website would like to support those institutions involved in establishing and maintaining the German PRTR.
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