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EU launches today on the internet your registration on polluting emissions from major industries
23/02/2004
on February 23, 2004
The European Commission and the European Environment Agency launched Monday the registration online on polluting emissions from major industrial installations of the European Union.
The European register of pollutant emissions (Eper, in its acronym in English), which will gather data from 10,000 active industrial facilities in the Union, is the first of its kind on such a scale.
The Eper was created to increase the environmental transparency and encourage manufacturers to reduce their polluting emissions. Brussels considers that the fact that these data are accessible via the internet establishes a form of collective monitoring on industrial pollution in the Union.
Factory by factory, country by country, the Eper will use a repertoire of industrial pollutants 50 cast in the air and water. Companies will be responsible for making the inventory of the data and transmit them to their regional or national authorities collect and verify the information. The European Agency for the environment then centralize this information and will put them online on the page of Eper.
The first data gathered in 2003 and focus on emissions in 2001. The next update will be held in 2006, taking into account also the emissions of the ten new Member States, and will offer an inventory which will also include waste.
More information: www.eper-es.com
