Alternate title

INSPIRE European Pollutant Transfer Register - Emission Data

Date (Creation)

2015-01-01

Date (Revision)

2025-03-03

Date (Publication)

2015-01-01

Citation identifier

EPA / PF.IE.EPA.EPRTR_EmissionData

Citation identifier

EPA / PF.ProductionInstallation

Purpose

Article 7 of the Regulation sets the requirements for the annual reporting by Member States which covers the releases to air, water and land as well as the transfers of pollutants in waste water for 91 substances and across 65 industrial sub-sectors, and the transfer of waste from these industrial facilities. The register includes information of some 33 000 facilities in 33 countries (EU28, Iceland, Liechtenstein, Norway, Switzerland and Serbia).

Status

On going

Point of contact

Organisation name	Individual name	Electronic mail address	Role
Environmental Protection Agency		gis@epa.ie	Point of contact

Maintenance and update frequency

As needed

GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0

• Production and industrial facilities

INSPIRE priority data set

• Actual pollutant releases (European Pollutant Release and Transfer Register)

Spatial scope

• National

General Multilingual Environmental Thesaurus - Concepts, version 4.1.3

• air pollution

• water pollution

• land pollution

Environmental Protection Agency

• air pollution

• water pollution

• land pollution

• waste water

• industrial facilities

Place

• Ireland

Specific usage

Human health and safety INSPIRE

User contact info

Organisation name	Individual name	Electronic mail address	Role
Environmental Protection Agency		gis@epa.ie	User

Access constraints

Other restrictions

Other constraints

no limitations to public access

Use constraints

Other restrictions

Other constraints

no conditions to access and use

Other constraints

CC BY 4.0

Other constraints

This layer is published under the terms of the license Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0). [ https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ ]

Spatial representation type

Vector

Denominator

50000

Language

English

Character set

UTF8

Topic category

• Environment

Unique resource identifier

EPSG:29902 (TM65 / Irish Grid))

Unique resource identifier

EPSG:4258 (ETRS89 geographical coordinates)

Distribution format

Name	Version
gml+xml	3.2

Distributor contact

Organisation name	Individual name	Electronic mail address	Role
Environmental Protection Agency		gis@epa.ie	Point of contact

OnLine resource

Protocol	Linkage	Name
OGC Web Map Service	https://www.inspire.gov.ie/geoserver/inspire_epa/wms?service=wms&version=1.3.0&request=GetCapabilities	DHLGH Ireland INSPIRE View Service WMS
ATOM Syndication Format	https://epa-inspire-atom.s3-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/files/atomEPA_INSPIRE_Ireland.xml	DHLGH Ireland INSPIRE Download Service ATOM

Hierarchy level

Dataset

Statement

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 installations in Ireland which are releasing External linkPRTR 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 has to 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 External link65 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 External linkE-PRTR capacity thresholds (Annex I)

the facility releases pollutants or transfers waste off-site which exceed specific thresholds set out in External linkArticle 5 of the E-PRTR Regulation. These thresholds for releases of pollutants are specified for each media - air, water and land - in External linkAnnex 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 the External linkEuropean Pollutant Release and Transfer Register.

The European Pollutant Release and Transfer Register (E-PRTR) supersedes the European Pollutant Emission Register (EPER). EPER was the first European-wide register of industrial emissions into air and water, which was established by a Commission Decision of 17 July 2000 (External linkEPER Decision). Under EPER, Member States reported data for the years 2001 and 2004. E-PRTR builds on the same principles as EPER but goes beyond it, by including reporting on more pollutants from more activities, and includes releases to land, releases from diffuse sources and off-site transfers of wastes and effluents.

Metadata

File identifier

fb1abe50-b172-44e1-9028-f0357917c1f6 XML

Metadata language

English

Character set

UTF8

Hierarchy level

Dataset

Date stamp

2025-09-24T14:26:12.504Z

Metadata standard name

COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) Nº 1205/2008 of INSPIRE Directive

Metadata standard version

TG 2.0

Metadata author

Organisation name	Individual name	Electronic mail address	Role
Environmental Protection Agency		gis@epa.ie	Point of contact