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- Agenda 21
- Recommendations contained in UNCED Agenda 21, Chapter 19, relating to Community
Right-to-Know and Chemical Emissions Inventories. 1992. 18KB/5KB English
CEC: Commission for Environmental Cooperation
- North American Pollutant Releases and Transfers
- Project summary, objectives, rationale, activities. Focus on developing North American
pollutant release inventory report; assistance to Mexico; compatibility and accessibility
of North American PRTRs. 1996. 18KB/7KB English
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EU: European Union
- Proposed Directive on Integrated Pollution Prevention and
Control
- To establish Community-wide inventory, set emission limit values, ensure public access
to data, publish information. Lists facilities and chemicals to be covered. 22KB/19KB
English
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IFCS: Intergovernmental Forum for Chemical Safety
- IOMC, IFCS, and IPCS
- Purposes, structures, relationship of collaborative efforts toward environmentally sound
management of toxic chemicals by international organisations. 1996. 18KB/7KB
English
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- Resolutions Adopted at International Conference on
Chemical Safety
- Establishing IFCS and setting priorities for action in implementing environmentally
sound management of chemicals. 29 Apr. 1994. 22KB/20KB English
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OECD: Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development
PRTR GUIDANCE TO GOVERNMENTS
- Guidance Manual for Governments
- Pollutant Release and Transfer Registers - A Tool for Environmental Policy and
Sustainable Development: Guidance Manual for Governments. Complete and final OECD
guidance manual for governments considering or implementing PRTRs. Earlier drafts, in
smaller text files, are available below.
Requires free Acrobat Reader. 1996. NOTE very large file size: 1.2MB English
- Preface
- Foreword, Acknowledgments, and Preface. Dec. 1995. 22KB/18KB
English
- Chapter 1: Usefulness of Instituting a National PRTR
- Revised draft: Definitions, benefits, public participation, effective implementation,
overview of process to create a PRTR. May 1994. 31KB/47KB English
- Chapter 2: Developing a List of Species for a National PRTR
- Issues in developing specific list of reportable chemical substances; sample lists of
chemicals, industries, list of lists. Oct. 1994. 31KB/44KB English
- Chapter 3: Data Management and Reporting for a National
PRTR
- Draft: Information management for reporters; issues of confidentiality claims; data
quality; reporting by small and medium-sized enterprises; example of waste reporting
survey for a large firm. May 1995. 154KB/356KB English
- Chapter 4: Dissemination and Use of PRTR Data and Results
- Draft: How results are used; making results accessible and usable; elements of an
outreach plan. Representative uses of PRTR data; NPRI stakeholder recommendations for data
elements, matrix of advantages/disadvantages for dissemination and storage mechanisms.
[1995]. 101KB/194KB English
- Chapter 5: Formulating a Practical PRTR System
- Draft: Basic principles, list of key attributes for initial system design, benefits from
public dissemination and other benefits, description of activities in countries in process
of developing PRTRs, activities by international organisations. Dec. 1995. 44KB/77KB
English
WORKSHOPS on DEVELOPING PRTRs
OECD Workshop I: Usefulness of Instituting a National PRTR
(23 documents)
OECD Workshop II: Developing a List of Species for a
National PRTR (23 documents)
OECD Workshop III: Data Management and Reporting for a National PRTR under
construction
OECD Workshop IV: Dissemination and Use of PRTR Data and Results under construction
OECD Workshop V: Formulating a Practical PRTR System under construction
CONFERENCE on PRTRs: NATIONAL AND GLOBAL
RESPONSIBILITY, Tokyo, Japan, September 1998
- Conference Proceedings, Part 1
- Experiences in PRTR design and development. Outreach, training, and education.
Generating and reporting data. Implementation and Use. Requires free Acrobat Reader. NOTE large
file size: 565KB English
- Conference Proceedings, Part 2
- Evaluating PRTRs as environmental policy tool, focusing on: governments; public and
NGOs; community-level; industry sectors. Future directions: evolving uses of PRTR data;
estimating small and diffuse sources; regional and international uses. Includes final
conference statement and statement by NGOs. Requires free Acrobat
Reader. NOTE very
large file size: 1.4MB English
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UNEP: United Nations Environment Programme
[Documents from this source are not presently available here.]
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UNITAR: United Nations Institute for Training and Research
For hard copies of these documents, contact UNITAR (e-Mail: ahalpaap.unitar@unep.ch) directly.
- Facilitating the Establishment of Pollutant Release and
Transfers Registers in Developing and Industrializing Countries
- Overview of UNITAR's activities. Pilot studies in the Czech Republic, Egypt, Mexico.
Suggested 6-stage process for designing a PRTR. Bibliography of available UNITAR guidance
documents. August 1996 26KB/30KB English
- Guidance Series on Implementing a National PRTR Design
Project
- Table of Contents and Introduction to each of five guidance documents, Final Draft, July
1996:
Implementing a National PRTR Design Project: A Guidance Document
Preparing a National PRTR Infrastructure Assessment: A Supplementary Guide (#1)
Designing the Key Features of a National PRTR System: A Supplementary Guide (#2)
Implementing a PRTR Pilot Reporting Trial: A Supplementary Guide (#3)
Structuring a National PRTR Proposal: A Supplementary Guide (#4)
28KB/35KB English
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WHO: World Health Organisation
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Australia
- National Pollutant Inventory
- National
Pollutant Inventory
-
The National
Pollutant Inventory (NPI) is an Internet database designed to provide the
community, industry and government with
information on the types and amounts of certain substances being emitted
to the environment. The NPI internet site has two components: a database
component that includes emission data for facilities and aggregated sources,
and an information component covering various aspects of the NPI such as
operation of the program, NPI emission estimation techniques and various NPI
publications. The components are complimentary and often to get full value
from the NPI program, users need to access information from both components
of the site. There are useful links between the two components of the site
at the bottom of all NPI web pages. URL for the
NPI: www.npi.ea.gov.au
- National
Environment Protection Measure (NEPM) for the National Pollutant Inventory (NPI)
-
The NPI was
made as a NEPM by the National Environment Protection Council (NEPC) on 27
February 1998. The NPI NEPM is
the base document for the NPI, available at http://www.nepc.gov.au/npivar_frame.html
- NPI
guide and reporting form
-
The NPI
guide provides general information on the NPI and helps a facility determine
whether it needs to report its emissions of NPI
substances. The guide is
available at http://www.environment.gov.au/epg/npi/handbooks/general/guidetoreporting.html
- Reporting
list of substances
-
In the phase
in years of 1998-1999, 1999-2000 and 2000-2001, facilities were only
required to report on 36 substances. From
1 July 2001 this increased to 90 substances.
For further details on the NPI list of substances please see http://www.environment.gov.au/epg/npi/about/background/list_of_subst.html
- Industry
handbooks
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Industry
handbooks are industry specific guidance documents provided to assist
facilities (point sources) in estimating emissions for NPI reporting.
An industry handbook consists of the NPI Guide and one or more
Emission Estimation Technique (EET) Manuals. The number of EET Manuals in a
particular handbook depends on the number of particular industry processes
that give rise to emissions for that particular industry sector.
A total of 80 industry handbooks are available at http://www.environment.gov.au/epg/npi/handbooks/approved_handbooks/approved_handbooks.html
- Aggregated
Emissions Manuals
-
The
aggregated emissions manuals are guidance documents provided to estimate
emissions from non-industrial activities such as transportation, domestic
and commercial activities and emissions from industry which are not reported
because the relevant thresholds are not exceeded or because the industries
are exempt from reporting. A total of 20 manuals are available for
estimating aggregated emissions. These
are available at http://www.environment.gov.au/epg/npi/handbooks/aedmanuals/aedmanuals.html
- Technical
advisory panel report
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The
Technical Advisory Panel (TAP) to the National Pollutant Inventory was
formed in March 1997 to recommend substances for
inclusion on the NPI. The Panel produced a report which was released
together with the draft NEPM at the commencement of the consultation period
in June 1997. The TAP report is
available at http://www.environment.gov.au/epg/npi/pubs/tap/tapreport.html
- First
year summary report 1998-99.
-
The first
report for this database, known as the National Pollutant Inventory
(NPI), became available on the Internet on 28 January 2000 at www.npi.ea.gov.au.
This is a summary of the first NPI report.
It is available at http://www.environment.gov.au/epg/npi/pubs/summary9899.html
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Canada: National Pollutant Release Inventory (NPRI)
- Guide for Reporting to the National Pollutant Release
Inventory, 1998
- Published guidance for Canadian facilities for reporting year 1998. 125KB/515KB
English
- A National Pollutant Release Inventory for Canada (npri01.exe not
presently available)
- Multi-Stakeholder Advisory Committee Report, during development of Canada's
NPRI:
Recommendations on reporting requirements, conditions, and exemptions. Unresolved issues.
Recommendations for further work. Appendices include proposals for public access and
recommended data elements. Dec. 1992. 43KB/91KB English
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- Development of Pollution Release and Transfer Register (PRTR) in Czech Republic
(cze01.exe not presently available).
- Progress. Structure. Proposed substance list. Pilot study. March 1996. 20KB/12KB
English
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- Chemical Release Inventory: System Overview
- Operation, definitions, data elements collected under CRI. 17 Aug. 1992. 22KB/16KB
English
- Paper by the United Kingdom on a Chemical Release Inventory
- United Kingdom Government's proposals for implementing Integrated Pollution Control
permitting in England and Wales. Sample data from publicly available register. List of
substances. Undated [approx. 1991] 31KB/41KB English
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- Publicity and Reporting Systems of Industrial Emissions in
Europe
- Summary of report comparing reporting and information dissemination systems in Belgium,
the Netherlands, France, Germany, Great Britain, Spain. 10KB/19KB English
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[Documents from this source are not presently available here.]
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- Notification of Environmental Protection Rules
- Rules and forms for required environmental audit reports, covering water and raw
material consumption, hazardous and solid wastes. Nov. 1992. 17KB/5KB English
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Ireland: Pollution Emissions Register (PER)
- Integrated Pollution Control Licensing: Guidance Note for
Pollution Emissions Register (PER) Content
- Draft reporting requirements, including methods for calculating productivity indexes
that indicate recycling or reuse of reportable waste; mass balance methodology; and use of
graphs to make facility reporting clear. Includes list of reportable substances and
reporting form. June 1996. 39KB/56KB English
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Mexico: Registro de Emisiones y Transferencias de Contaminantes
(RETC)
- Proyecto de instrumentaciíon nacional 1996-1997
- Background, objectives, case study information. April 1996. 19KB/8KB Spanish
- Development of a Mexican PRTR
- Including linkages with affected sectors, development of substance list. April 1996. 29KB/27KB
English
- Second Report to National Coordinating Group: Chemical
Selection
- List of substances, including checklist of chemical coverage under TRI,
NPRI, OCED, KEMI, and NOM and spreadsheet of toxicity data. Flow chart of selection process.
Jan.-March 1996. 74KB/134KB Spanish
- Protocol for Selecting RETC's Chemicals
- Procedure and criteria for chemical selection (from slide show). March 1996. 42KB/44KB
English
- Formate de Reporte
- RETC reporting form version 4.1. March 1996. Note: Document is available only in MS
Word, not ASCII. 42KB/26KB Spanish
- Instrucciones para el Llenado del Formate de Reporte
- Instructions for preparing and filing RETC reporting form version 4.1. April 1996.27KB/36KB
Spanish
- First Report to National Coordinating Committee: Reporting
Form
- First version of RETC reporting form, with instructions. Nov. 1995. Note: Document is
available only in MS Word, not ASCII. 45KB/129KB Spanish
- Terminos de Referencia del Grupo Nacional Coordinador
- National Coordinating Group's terms of reference. July 1995. 28KB/41KB Spanish
- RETC Contacts
- List of contact persons. April 1996. 16KB/2KB
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- Assessment of the Pollutant Emission Register
- Revised version of paper submitted to fifth OECD workshop, on implementing a complete
PRTR system. Nov. 1995. 25KB/15KB English
- Voluntary Agreements Between Government and Industry
- Describes Dutch use of voluntary agreements: target group approach, steps in developing
and implementing covenants, use of comprehensive company improvement plans, relationship
to licensing. [1993.] 25KB/29KB English
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- Development of a Release Inventory in New Zealand
- Issues and options: purposes and uses of inventories; application to New Zealand. July
1995. 28KB/36KB English
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Norway: Annual Emission Reports from Industrial Enterprises
- Guidelines for Filling in the Report Form
- Detailed reporting instructions and sample completed form. 1994. 92KB/195KB
English
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Sweden: Emission Register for Chemical Substances
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United States: Toxics Release Inventory (TRI)
- Release Reporting Requirements
- Overview of TRI reporting requirements: facility types, threshold chemical volumes, what
must be reported. Aug. 1995. 22KB/17KB English
- Electronic TRI Reporting Forms
This download is from the US TRI Web site.
- Software for electronic filing of TRI reports. English
- Estimating Releases from Electroplating Operations
- Industry-specific reporting guidance: information on toxic chemicals used and process
wastes generated, with examples to demonstrate the types of data needed and various
methodologies available for estimating releases. Jan. 1988. 30KB/45KB English
- Estimating Releases from Textile Dyeing
- Industry-specific reporting guidance: information on toxic chemicals used and process
wastes generated, with examples to demonstrate the types of data needed and various
methodologies available for estimating releases. Feb. 1988. 30KB/45KB English
- Chemical Lists
- Electronic versions of lists of chemicals reportable under U.S. TRI, Resource
Conservation and Recovery Act (solid and hazardous waste), and others. 1992 reporting
year. 202KB/188KB English
- Reporting Guidance: Selected Chemicals
- Reporting guidance for aqueous ammonia; lists of toxic chemicals in selected categories:
nitrates, warfarin, and EBDC (ethylenebisdithiocarbamic acid). 50KB/212KB
English
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U.S. -- New Jersey: Community Right-to-Know
[Documents from this source are not presently available here.]
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U.S. -- Massachusetts: Toxics Use Reduction
[Documents from this source are not presently available here.]
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CEFIC
(European Chemical Industry Council)
- Guidelines on Environmental Reporting for the European
Chemical Industry
- Proposes common structure environmental reports (corporate and site-specific) and a
Standard Emissions Inventory (with core chemicals and data collection guidance). 18 June
1993. 30KB/42KB English
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Individuals; Other Types of Groups
- Towards an ECE Convention on Access to Environmental
Information and Public Participation in Environmental Decisionmaking
- Background, content, and implications of ECE Guidelines for public access to
environmental information (adopted Oct. 1995) and proposed Convention on Public
Participation (in preparation, for potential adoption in 1998). Wates, J., elni
Newsletter, Environmental Law Network International, 1(1996):15-21. 28KB/37KB
English
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Instituted by by UNEP Chemicals
(International Register of Potentially Toxic Chemicals
of the United Nations Environment Programme), Geneva, Switzerland.
This activity is carried out as a contribution to the Inter-Organisation Programme for the
Sound Management of Chemicals (IOMC).
Developed by The Hampshire Research Institute, Alexandria, Virginia, USA.
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