Pollutant Release and Transfer Registers

In recent years, the public's "right to know" has moved to the forefront of environmental policy making, and OECD is supporting governments' response by helping them develop databases of releases and transfers of pollutants to the environment, called PRTRs.

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Considerations for ensuring quality Pollutant Release and Transfer Registers (PRTR) data

23-Jul-2008

This document intends to provide a “snapshot” of how OECD countries have developed and run their PRTR programmes. It shows the similarities and differences across countries in their requirements to collect and display high quality data, which is required for an effective PRTR system.  It also presents compliance and regulatory requirements, the development of guidance material, and emerging issues and challenges for the future.

SCOPING STUDY ON THE INCLUSION OF RELEASES AND TRANSFERS FROM SMALL AND MEDIUM-SIZED ENTERPRISES (SMEs) - ENV/JM/MONO(2008)5

13-May-2008

This study provides an insight on whether a systematic inclusion of releases and transfers from small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs)  in national PRTRs would improve the current knowledge of industrial pollution as a whole. The study concludes that in order to be able to cover the remaining releases and transfers from SMEs, diffuse sources should be included in PRTRs.

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