Press Release: Industrial pollution: new European register adopted

The European Commission welcomed the first-reading agreement between the European Parliament and the Council on the establishment of a European Release and Transfer Register (PRTR), as required by a UN protocol, 6 July 2005. The European PRTR was planned to be Internet-based and would hold a variety of data on industrial pollution, providing the public with information about the quality of the environment in their neighbourhoods and elsewhere in Europe. It would be a more comprehensive version of the award-winning European Pollutant Emission Register (EPER), launched in February 2004.

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UNECE: Press Release, 3.3.06: European Community ratifies pollutant right-to-know treaty http://www.unece.org/press/pr2006/06env_p02e.htm

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