Industry has to report on pollutants
PRTR Protocol will enter into force on 8 October 2009
21.07.2009 | Anke Stock
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At the extra-ordinary meeting of the Parties on 21 May 2003 in Kiev, Ukraine, the Protocol on Pollutant Release and Transfer Registers to the Aarhus Convention was adopted. 36 States and the European Community signed the Protocol in Kiev. The Protocol will enter into force on 8 October 2009 as France has just deposited its ratification.
The Protocol is the first legally binding international instrument on pollutant release and transfer registers. PRTRs are inventories of pollution from industrial sites and other sources. The aim of the protocol is "to enhance public access to information through the establishment of coherent, nationwide pollutant release and transfer registers (PRTRs) ...". The protocol is expected to exert a significant downward pressure on levels of pollution, as no company will want to be identified as among the biggest polluters. More on http://www.unece.org/press/pr2009/09env_p17e.htm.
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