Press Release: Commission adopts plans for a pollution register

The European Commission has adopted a Decision on the setting up of a European Pollutant Emission Register (EPER). The Register will cover emissions of 50 pollutants from about 20,000 individual industrial facilities across the European Union and it will be of great importance as a public instrument to provide accessible and comparable information on the emissions of pollutants from industry. Both the public and industry can use the EPER data to compare the environmental performance of individual facilities or industrial sectors in different countries. Governments can use the registered data to monitor the achievements in meeting environmental targets in national and international agreements and protocols.

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http://ec.europa.eu/comm/environment/ippc/index.htm http://ec.europa.eu/comm/environment/ippc/index.htm

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