European Pollutant Release and Transfer Register (E-PRTR)

This page provides a description and a link to a "European Pollutant Release and Transfer Register (E-PRTR)" database that provides information needed when modeling exposure levels or performing exposure assessment.

Short Description

The European Pollutant Release and Transfer Register (E-PRTR) is the new Europe-wide register that provides easily accessible key environmental data from industrial facilities in European Union Member States and in Iceland, Liechtenstein and Norway. It replaces and improves upon the previous European Pollutant Emission Register (EPER). The new register contains data reported annually by some 24,000 industrial facilities covering 65 economic activities across Europe. For each facility, information is provided concerning the amounts of pollutant releases to air, water and land as well as off-site transfers of waste and of pollutants in waste water from a list of 91 key pollutants including heavy metals, pesticides, greenhouse gases and dioxins for the year 2007 onwards. Some information on releases from diffuse sources is also available and will be gradually enhanced.

Link

http://ec.europa.eu/environment/air/pollutants/stationary/eper/index.htm

Key Words

emissions, air, water, metals, pcbs, dioxins, pahs, particles