Irish Spatial Data Exchange
PRTR: Production and processing of metals
The PRTR Production and Processing of Metals sector includes the following activities:
(a) Metal ore (including sulphide ore) roasting or sintering installations.
(b) Installations for the production of pig iron or steel (primary or secondary melting) including continuous casting with a capacity of 2.5 tonnes per hour.
(c) Installations for the processing of ferrous metals:
(i) Hot-rolling mills with a capacity of 20 tonnes of crude steel per hour;
(ii) Smitheries with hammers with an energy of 50 kilojoules per hammer, where the calorific power used exceeds 20 MW;
(iii) Application of protective fused metal coats with an input of 2 tonnes of crude steel per hour.
(d) Ferrous metal foundries with a production capacity of 20 tonnes per day.
(e) Installations:
(i) For the production of non-ferrous crude metals from ore, concentrates or secondary raw materials by metallurgical, chemical or electrolytic processes;
(ii) For the smelting, including the alloying, of non-ferrous metals, including recovered products (refining, foundry casting, etc.) with a melting capacity of 4 tonnes per day for lead and cadmium or 20 tonnes per day for all other metals.
(f) Installations for surface treatment of metals and plastic materials using an electrolytic or chemical process where the volume of the treatment vats equals 30 m3.
Simple
- Alternate title
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Environmental Protection Agency Pollutant Release and Transfer Register: Production and processing of metals
- Date (Creation)
- 2015-09-03
- Date (Publication)
- 2015-09-03
- Date (Revision)
- 2021-07-22
- Citation identifier
- EF.IE.EPA.WFD.LEMA_Facilities_PRTR_Production_processing_metals
- Purpose
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This is data for facilities that:
(i) carry out an activity listed in the PRTR Production and processing of metals sector, and
(ii) release PRTR pollutants above the specified reporting thresholds and/or transfer waste offsite above the waste reporting thresholds.
- Status
- On going
- Point of contact
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Organisation name Individual name Electronic mail address Role Environmental Protection Agency
PRTR Team
Point of contact
- Maintenance and update frequency
- As needed
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GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0
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Environmental monitoring facilities
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GEMET - Concepts, version 4.1.3
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pollutant
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pollutant dispersion
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emission to air
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emission to water
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metal
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Environmental Protection Agency
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pollutant
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pollutant dispersion
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emission to air
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emission to water
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metal production
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metal processing
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ferrous
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non-ferrous
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ISO 3166
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IE
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INSPIRE priority data set
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Actual pollutant releases (Pollutant Release and Transfer Register)
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- Use limitation
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no limitations
- Use limitation
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Data is for public use under Creative Commons CC-By 4.0
- Access constraints
- License
- Use constraints
- License
- Other constraints
- Spatial representation type
- Vector
- Denominator
- 50000
- Language
- English
- Character set
- UTF8
- Topic category
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- Environment
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- Begin date
- 2005-01-01T00:00:00
- End date
- 2015-01-13T00:00:00
- Supplemental Information
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E-PRTR Regulation 2006 (EC) No 166/2006 - https://eur-lex.europa.eu/LexUriServ/LexUriServ.do?uri=OJ:L:2006:033:0001:0017:EN:PDF
E-PRTR website https://prtr.eea.europa.eu/#/home
Ireland’s PRTR legislation S.I. No. 123 of 2007 ( http://www.epa.ie/pubs/advice/licensee/prtr/sino123of2007.html) and S.I. No. 649 of 2011 ( http://www.epa.ie/pubs/advice/licensee/prtr/sino649of2011.html)
EPA PRTR website on epa.ie http://www.epa.ie/enforcement/prtr/
- Reference system identifier
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EPSG
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http://www.opengis.net/def/crs/EPSG/0/29902
EPSG Geodetic Parameter Dataset 2009-11-25
- Distribution format
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Name Version ESRI Shapefile
10.x
- Distributor contact
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Organisation name Individual name Electronic mail address Role Environmental Protection Agency
GIS Team
Publisher
- OnLine resource
- Hierarchy level
- Dataset
Conformance result
- Title
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D2.8.II/III.7 INSPIRE Data Specification on Environmental Monitoring Facilities – Technical Guidelines
- Alternate title
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INSPIRE Data Specifications v3.0
- Date (Publication)
- 2013-12-10
- Explanation
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The INSPIRE Directive or INSPIRE lays down a general framework for a Spatial Data Infrastructure (SDI) for the purposes of European Community environmental policies and policies or activities which may have an impact on the environment.
- Pass
- No
Conformance result
- Title
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COMMISSION REGULATION (EU) No 1089/2010 of 23 November 2010 implementing Directive 2007/2/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council as regards interoperability of spatial data sets and services
- Alternate title
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INSPIRE Interoperability Regulation
- Date (Publication)
- 2010-12-08
- Explanation
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Level of conformance with the COMMISSION REGULATION (EU) No 1089/2010 of 23 November 2010 implementing Directive 2007/2/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council as regards interoperability of spatial data sets and services
- Pass
- No
- Statement
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Ireland's Pollutant Release and Transfer Register (PRTR) provides a publicly accessible and searchable database which members of the public can use to search for facilities in Ireland which are releasing PRTR pollutants in excess of specific thresholds or making off-site transfers of waste above specified thresholds for non-hazardous and hazardous wastes. The register also fulfills requirements of the Aarhus Convention, as a simple means of affording access to information about environmental emissions and transfers.
A facility must report data under European Pollutant Release and Transfer Register (E-PRTR) if it fulfils the following criteria:
• the facility falls under at least one of the E-PRTR economic activities. The activities are also reported using a statistical classification of economic activities (NACE rev 2);
• the facility has a capacity exceeding at least one of the E-PRTR capacity thresholds (Annex I);
• the facility releases pollutants or transfers waste off-site which exceed specific thresholds set out in Article 5 of the E-PRTR Regulation. These thresholds for releases of pollutants are specified for each media - air, water and land - in Annex II of the E-PRTR Regulation.
If a facility has emissions or waste transfers above the relevant thresholds, information is provided to the European Commission concerning the amount of pollutant releases to air, water and waste water as well as off-site transfers of waste. This information is then displayed on both the European Pollutant Release and Transfer Register and Ireland’s PRTR.
Note that only the information reportable under PRTR is displayed on this register.
The register contains data reported each year since 2007 for over 400 facilities carrying out PRTR activities.
For each facility, information is provided for each year concerning the amounts above threshold pollutant releases to air, water and land as well as off-site transfers of waste and of pollutants in waste water from a list of 91 key pollutants, including heavy metals, pesticides, greenhouse gases and dioxins.
Metadata
- File identifier
- d934e90f-596d-4764-9313-9f2b4a1b08f2 XML
- Metadata language
- English
- Character set
- UTF8
- Hierarchy level
- Dataset
- Date stamp
- 2021-07-28T14:37:48Z
- Metadata standard name
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ISDI Metadata Profile + COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) Nº 1205/2008 of INSPIRE Directive
- Metadata standard version
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1.2
- Metadata author
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Organisation name Individual name Electronic mail address Role Environmental Protection Agency
GIS Team
Point of contact
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