Regulation (EU) 2024/1244 on reporting of environmental data from industrial installations, establishing an Industrial Emissions Portal

What it is

PURPOSE: to transform the European Pollutant Release and Transfer Register (E-PRTR) into an Industrial Emissions Portal. PROPOSED ACT: Regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council. ROLE OF THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT: the European Parliament decides in accordance with the ordinary legislative procedure and on an equal footing with the Council. BACKGROUND: Regulation (EC) No 166/2006 established the European Pollutant Release and Transfer Register (E-PRTR), as the Europe-wide register providing public access to key environmental data from industrial facilities located in the EU, Iceland, Liechtenstein and Norway. The E ‑ PRTR contains data reported annually by some 30 000 industrial facilities which cover 65 economic activities across the EU. The Regulation implements the 2006 Kyiv Protocol on Pollutant Release and Transfer Registers, which entered into force in 2009. It is the only legally binding international instrument on pollutant release and transfer registers. The Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Food Safety adopted the report by Radan KANEV (EPP, BG) on reporting of environmental data from industrial installations and establishing an Industrial Emissions Portal. The proposal for a regulation aims to improve public access to environmental information through the creation of an integrated and coherent EU-wide electronic database, the Industrial Emissions Portal. The committee responsible recommended that the European Parliament's position adopted at first reading under the ordinary legislative procedure should amend the proposal as follows: Members specify that data on recovery available on the portal should be disaggregated by relevant R code. Data on disposal available on the portal should be disaggregated by relevant D code. The portal should include data, in a standardised format which facilitates data extraction, on: - the summary of the permit as laid down in the implementing act referred to in Article 5(4) second subparagraph of Directive 2010/75/EU on industrial emissions, as amended; - where available, systematised information provided by the Member States on the available scientific data as referred to in Article 79a of Directive 2010/75/EU on industrial emissions, as amended; - a list of non-compliant installations under the amended Directive 2010/75/EU; - the BAT conclusions referred to in Directive 2010/75/EU as amended. The portal should include direct links to the permit, the environmental management system and the transformation plans referred to in the amended Directive 2010/75/EU on industrial emissions. The Commission should make the portal publicly and easily accessible and user-friendly , presenting the data in both aggregated and non-aggregated forms with a view to enabling searches, data extraction and query-based downloads of datasets by: - installation, or a group of two or more installations or parts of installations covered by the same permit; - off-site transfers of waste and, as appropriate, their destination in accordance with Annexes I and II to Directive 2008/98/EC, indicating with ‘R’ or ‘D’, respectively, whether the waste is destined for recovery or disposal; Where personal data…

Official title: Regulation (EU) 2024/1244 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 24 April 2024 on reporting of environmental data from industrial installations, establishing an Industrial Emissions Portal and repealing Regulation (EC) No 166/2006 (Text with EEA relevance)