Regulation (EU) 2024/1244 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 24 April 2024 on reporting of environmental data from industrial installations, establishing an Industrial Emissions Portal and repealing Regulation (EC) No 166/2006 (Text with EEA relevance)
(1) "installation" means a stationary technical unit within which one or more activities listed in Annex I are carried out, and any other directly associated activities on the same site which have a technical connection with the activities listed in that Annex and which could have an effect on emissions and pollution; (2) "facility" means one or more installations, or parts thereof, that are on the same site and that are operated by the same natural or legal person; (3) "site" means the geographical location of the installation and the facility; (4) "the public" means the public as defined in Article 3, point (16), of Directive 2010/75/EU; (5) "release" means any introduction of a pollutant into the environment as a result of any human activity, whether deliberate or accidental, routine or non-routine, including spilling, emitting, discharging, injecting, disposing or dumping, or through sewer systems without final waste water treatment; (6) "pollutant" means a substance or a group of substances that can be harmful to the environment or to human health on account of its properties and of its introduction into the environment; (7) "substance" means a substance as defined in Article 3, point (1), of Directive 2010/75/EU; (8) "operator" means an operator as defined in Article 3, point (15), of Directive 2010/75/EU; (9) "off-site transfer" means the movement, beyond the boundaries of an installation, of waste destined for recovery or disposal operations and of pollutants in waste water destined for waste water treatment; (10) "waste" means waste as defined in Article 3, point (1), of Directive 2008/98/EC; (11) "waste water" means urban, domestic and industrial waste water, as defined in Article 2, points (1), (2) and (3), of Directive 91/271/EEC, respectively, and any other used water which is subject, due to the substances or objects it contains, to regulation by Union law; (12) "diffuse sources" means the many smaller or scattered sources from which pollutants can be released to air, water or land, the combined impact of which on those media can be significant and for which it is impractical to collect reports from each individual source; (13) "competent authority" means the national authority or authorities, or any other competent body or bodies, designated by Member States; (14) "hazardous waste" means hazardous waste as defined in Article 3, point (2), of Directive 2008/98/EC; (15) "recovery operation" means any of the operations referred to in Annex II to Directive 2008/98/EC; (16) "disposal operation" means any of the operations referred to in Annex I to Directive 2008/98/EC; (17) "reporting year" means the calendar year for which data must be gathered; (18) "aquaculture" means aquaculture as defined in Article 4, point (25), of Regulation (EU) No 1380/2013 of the European Parliament and of the Council Regulation (EU) No 1380/2013 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 11 December 2013 on the Common Fisheries Policy, amending Council Regulations (EC) No 1954/2003 and (EC) No 1224/2009 and repealing Council Regulations (EC) No 2371/2002 and (EC) No 639/2004 and Council Decision 2004/585/EC (OJ L 354, 28.12.2013, p. 22 ).
(a) data on the release of pollutants as referred to in Article 6(1), point (a); (b) data on off-site transfers of waste as referred to in Article 6(1), point (b), and of pollutants in waste water as referred to in Article 6(1), point (c); (c) information on individual installations, reported by the Member States to the Commission in accordance with Directive 2010/75/EU, in particular Article 72 thereof; (d) data on the use of water, energy and relevant raw materials as referred to in Article 6(1), point (d); (e) contextual information as referred to in Article 6(1), point (e); (f) data on the release of pollutants from diffuse sources as referred to in Article 8(1), where such data are available.
(a) national pollutant release and transfer registers established by the Member States in accordance with the Protocol; (b) other existing publicly accessible registers, databases or websites, established at Member State or Union level, that provide access to the reporting requirements set out in Union law on climate change, on air, water and land protection, and on waste management.
(a) facility, including the facility’s parent company where applicable, and its geographical location, including the river basin; (b) installation; (c) activity; (d) occurrence at Member State or Union level; (e) pollutant, waste or resource, as appropriate; (f) the environmental medium, namely air, water or land, into which the pollutant is released; (g) off-site transfers of waste and, as appropriate, their destination; (h) off-site transfers of pollutants in waste water; (i) diffuse sources; and (j) installation owner or operator.
(a) data on the release to air, water and land of any pollutant listed in Annex II for which the applicable threshold specified in that Annex is exceeded; (b) data on off-site transfers of hazardous waste exceeding 2 tonnes per year per facility or of non-hazardous waste exceeding 2000 tonnes per year per facility, for any recovery or disposal operation with the exception of land treatment and deep injection, as specified in Annex I to Directive 2008/98/EC, indicating with "R" or "D" whether the waste is destined for recovery or disposal operations, respectively, and, for transboundary movements of hazardous waste, the name and address of the undertaking which carried out the recovery or disposal operations involving the waste and of the actual recovery or disposal operations site; waste which is subject to land treatment or deep injection disposal operations shall be reported as a release to land only by the operator of the installation, from which the waste originates;(c) data on off-site transfers of any pollutant listed in Annex II in waste water destined for waste water treatment for which the threshold specified in column 1b of that Annex is exceeded; (d) data on the use of water, energy and relevant raw materials as determined in the implementing act referred to in the second subparagraph; (e) information allowing contextualisation of the data reported under points (a) to (d), including production volume and number of operating hours; (f) information on whether the installation is covered by Directive 2003/87/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council Directive 2003/87/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 13 October 2003 establishing a scheme for greenhouse gas emission allowance trading within the Community and amending Council Directive 96/61/EC (OJ L 275, 25.10.2003, p. 32 ).(g) information on the facility to which the installation belongs.
(a) reporting procedures, with particular attention to be paid to provisions that were not part of Regulation (EC) No 166/2006 and sectors that were not covered by that Regulation, including technical guidelines regarding methods facilitating analysis for monitoring of PFAS, such as detection limits, parametric values and frequency of sampling; (b) the data to be reported; (c) quality assurance and assessment; (d) an indication of the type of data which can be withheld and, in the case of confidential data, the reasons for withholding them; (e) reference to internationally approved methods for release determination, analysis and sampling; (f) the names of any parent companies; (g) calculation methods, including emission factors per abatement technology, for livestock production and aquaculture; (h) how to apply in practice the definitions laid down in this Regulation for sites, facilities and installations, by means of, inter alia, a list of examples or specific explanations, pictures, drawings, diagrams or any other visual reference or support.
(a) to add a pollutant, where the release of that pollutant to air, water or land has, or can have, an adverse impact on the environment or human health, including a pollutant that is released from activities referred to in Annex I, and that meets one of the following conditions: (i) the pollutant is designated as a substance covered by an entry in Annex XIV to Regulation (EC) No 1907/2006 or by a restriction contained in Annex XVII to that Regulation; (ii) the pollutant is designated as a priority substance under Directive 2000/60/EC or 2008/105/EC; (iii) the pollutant is included in the watch lists established in the framework of Directive 2006/118/EC or 2008/105/EC or Directive (EU) 2020/2184; (iv) the pollutant is subject to limit values or other restrictions under Directive 2004/107/EC, 2006/118/EC, 2008/50/EC or (EU) 2020/2184;
(b) to set and update thresholds for the release of pollutants so as to achieve the goal of capturing at least 90 % of the release of each pollutant to air, water and land from activities referred to in Annex I, including thresholds of zero for substances constituting a particularly high hazard for human health or the environment; (c) to add or remove a pollutant and, where necessary, amend the applicable threshold in order to align Annex II to this Regulation with the Protocol; (d) to remove a pollutant that is no longer designated as a priority substance as referred to in point (a)(ii) of this paragraph or that is removed from the watch lists referred to in point (a)(iii).
(a) the nature, gravity and extent of the infringement, bearing in mind the objective of achieving a high level of protection of human health and the environment; (b) the degree of the fault involved in the infringement; (c) the repetitive or one-off character of the infringement.
| Activity | Capacity Threshold | |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Activities listed in Annex I to Directive 2010/75/EU | Above the applicable capacity thresholds set out in Directive 2010/75/EU |
| 2 | Activities listed in Annex Ia to Directive 2010/75/EU | Above the applicable capacity thresholds set out in Directive 2010/75/EU |
| 3 | Activities referred to in Article 2 of Directive (EU) 2015/2193 (where not covered by Annex I to Directive 2010/75/EU) | Combustion plants with a rated thermal input of at least 20 MW and below 50 MW |
| 4 | Underground mining and related operations, including the extraction of crude oil or gas either onshore or offshore (where not covered by Annex I to Directive 2010/75/EU) | No capacity threshold (all installations are subject to reporting) |
| 5 | Opencast mining and quarrying (where not covered by Annex I to Directive 2010/75/EU) | Where the surface of the area effectively under extractive operation equals 25 hectares |
| 6 | Urban waste water treatment plants | With a capacity of |
| 7 | Feed-based aquaculture | Exceeding an annual production capacity of 500 tonnes |
| 8 | Installations for the building and/or dismantling of ships, and for the painting or removal of paint from ships | With a capacity for ships 100 m long |
| 9 | Electrolysis of water for production of hydrogen | Industrial scale production |
| No | CAS number | Pollutant | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 74-82-8 | Methane (CH | — | — | |
| 2 | 630-08-0 | Carbon monoxide (CO) | — | — | |
| 3 | 124-38-9 | Carbon dioxide (CO | 100 million | — | — |
| 4 | Hydro-fluorocarbons (HFCs) | 100 | — | — | |
| 5 | 10024-97-2 | Nitrous oxide (N | — | — | |
| 6 | 7664-41-7 | Ammonia (NH | — | — | |
| 7 | Non-methane volatile organic compounds (NMVOC) | — | — | ||
| 8 | Nitrogen oxides (NO | — | — | ||
| 9 | Perfluorocarbons (PFCs) | 100 | — | — | |
| 10 | 2551-62-4 | Sulphur hexafluoride (SF | 50 | — | — |
| 11 | Sulphur oxides (SO | — | — | ||
| 12 | Total nitrogen | — | |||
| 13 | Total phosphorus | — | |||
| 14 | Hydrochlorofluorocarbons (HCFCs) | 1 | — | — | |
| 15 | Chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs) | 1 | — | — | |
| 16 | Halons | 1 | — | — | |
| 17 | Arsenic and compounds (as As) | 20 | 5 | 5 | |
| 18 | Cadmium and compounds (as Cd) | 10 | 5 | 5 | |
| 19 | Chromium and compounds (as Cr) | 100 | 50 | 50 | |
| 20 | Copper and compounds (as Cu) | 100 | 50 | 50 | |
| 21 | Mercury and compounds (as Hg) | 10 | 1 | 1 | |
| 22 | Nickel and compounds (as Ni) | 50 | 20 | 20 | |
| 23 | Lead and compounds (as Pb) | 200 | 20 | 20 | |
| 24 | Zinc and compounds (as Zn) | 200 | 100 | 100 | |
| 25 | 15972-60-8 | Alachlor | — | 1 | 1 |
| 26 | 309-00-2 | Aldrin | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| 27 | 1912-24-9 | Atrazine | — | 1 | 1 |
| 28 | 57-74-9 | Chlordane | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| 29 | 143-50-0 | Chlordecone | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| 30 | 470-90-6 | Chlorfenvinphos | — | 1 | 1 |
| 31 | 85535-84-8 | Chloro-alkanes, C | — | 1 | 1 |
| 32 | 2921-88-2 | Chlorpyrifos | — | 1 | 1 |
| 33 | 50-29-3 | DDT | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| 34 | 115-32-2 | Dicofol | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| 35 | 107-06-2 | 1, 2-dichloroethane (EDC) | 10 | 10 | |
| 36 | 75-09-2 | Dichloromethane (DCM) | 10 | 10 | |
| 37 | 60-57-1 | Dieldrin | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| 38 | 330-54-1 | Diuron | — | 1 | 1 |
| 39 | 115-29-7 | Endosulphan | — | 1 | 1 |
| 40 | 72-20-8 | Endrin | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| 41 | Halogenated organic compounds (as AOX) | — | |||
| 42 | 76-44-8 | Heptachlor | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| 43 | 118-74-1 | Hexachlorobenzene (HCB) | 10 | 1 | 1 |
| 44 | 87-68-3 | Hexachlorobutadiene (HCBD) | — | 1 | 1 |
| 45 | 608-73-1 | 1, 2,3, 4,5, 6-hexachlorocyclohexane (HCH) | 10 | 1 | 1 |
| 46 | 58-89-9 | Lindane | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| 47 | 2385-85-5 | Mirex | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| 48 | PCDD + PCDF (dioxins + furans) (as Teq) | ||||
| 49 | 608-93-5 | Pentachlorobenzene | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| 50 | 87-86-5 | Pentachlorophenol (PCP) | 10 | 1 | 1 |
| 51 | 335-67-1 | Perfluorooctanoic acid (PFOA) and its salts | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| 52 | 355-46-4 | Perfluorohexane-1-sulfonic acid (PFHxS) and its salts | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| 53 | 1336-36-3 | Polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) | |||
| 54 | 122-34-9 | Simazine | — | 1 | 1 |
| 55 | 127-18-4 | Tetrachloroethylene (PER) | 10 | — | |
| 56 | 56-23-5 | Tetrachloromethane (TCM) | 100 | 1 | — |
| 57 | 12002-48-1 | Trichlorobenzenes (TCBs) (all isomers) | 10 | 1 | — |
| 58 | 71-55-6 | 1, 1,1-trichloroethane | 100 | — | — |
| 59 | 79-34-5 | 1, 1,2, 2-tetrachloroethane | 50 | — | — |
| 60 | 79-01-6 | Trichloroethylene | 10 | — | |
| 61 | 67-66-3 | Trichloromethane | 500 | 10 | — |
| 62 | 8001-35-2 | Toxaphene | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| 63 | 75-01-4 | Vinyl chloride | 10 | 10 | |
| 64 | 120-12-7 | Anthracene | 50 | 1 | 1 |
| 65 | 71-43-2 | Benzene | 200 (as BTEX) | 200 (as BTEX) | |
| 66 | Brominated diphenylethers (PBDE) | — | 1 | 1 | |
| 67 | Nonylphenol and Nonylphenol ethoxylates (NP/NPEs) | — | 1 | 1 | |
| 68 | 100-41-4 | Ethyl benzene | — | 200 (as BTEX) | 200 (as BTEX) |
| 69 | 75-21-8 | Ethylene oxide | 10 | 10 | |
| 70 | 34123-59-6 | Isoproturon | — | 1 | 1 |
| 71 | 91-20-3 | Naphthalene | 100 | 10 | 10 |
| 72 | Organotin compounds (as total Sn) | — | 50 | 50 | |
| 73 | 117-81-7 | Di-(2-ethyl hexyl) phthalate (DEHP) | 10 | 1 | 1 |
| 74 | 108-95-2 | Phenols (as total C) | — | 20 | 20 |
| 75 | Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) | 50 | 5 | 5 | |
| 76 | 108-88-3 | Toluene | — | 200 (as BTEX) | 200 (as BTEX) |
| 77 | Tributyltin and compounds | — | 1 | 1 | |
| 78 | Triphenyltin and compounds | — | 1 | 1 | |
| 79 | Total organic carbon (TOC) (as total C or COD/3) | — | — | ||
| 80 | 1582-09-8 | Trifluralin | — | 1 | 1 |
| 81 | 1330-20-7 | Xylenes | — | 200 (as BTEX) | 200 (as BTEX) |
| 82 | Chlorides (as total Cl) | — | 2 million | 2 million | |
| 83 | Chlorine and inorganic compounds (as HCl) | — | — | ||
| 84 | 1332-21-4 | Asbestos | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| 85 | Cyanides (as total CN) | — | 50 | 50 | |
| 86 | Fluorides (as total F) | — | |||
| 87 | Fluorine and inorganic compounds (as HF) | — | — | ||
| 88 | 74-90-8 | Hydrogen cyanide (HCN) | 200 | — | — |
| 89 | Particulate matter (PM | — | — | ||
| 90 | 1806-26-4 | Octylphenols and Octylphenol ethoxylates | — | 1 | — |
| 91 | 206-44-0 | Fluoranthene | — | 1 | — |
| 92 | 465-73-6 | Isodrin | — | 1 | — |
| 93 | 36355-1-8 | Hexabromobiphenyl | |||
| 94 | 191-24-2 | Benzo(g,h,i)perylene | 1 | ||
| Regulation (EC) No 166/2006 | This Regulation |
|---|---|
| Article 1 | Article 1 |
| Article 2, point (1) | Article 3, point (4) |
| Article 2, point (2) | Article 3, point (13) |
| Article 2, point (3) | Article 3, point (1) |
| Article 2, point (4) | Article 3, point (2) |
| Article 2, point (5) | Article 3, point (3) |
| Article 2, point (6) | Article 3, point (8) |
| Article 2, point (7) | Article 3, point (17) |
| Article 2, point (8) | Article 3, point (7) |
| Article 2, point (9) | Article 3, point (6) |
| Article 2, point (10) | Article 3, point (5) |
| Article 2, point (11) | Article 3, point (9) |
| Article 2, point (12) | Article 3, point (12) |
| Article 2, point (13) | Article 3, point (10) |
| Article 2, point (14) | Article 3, point (14) |
| Article 2, point (15) | Article 3, point (11) |
| Article 2, point (16) | Article 3, point (16) |
| Article 2, point (17) | Article 3, point (15) |
| Article 3, point (a) | Article 4(1), point (a) |
| Article 3, point (b) | Article 4(1), point (b) |
| Article 3, point (c) | Article 4(1), point (f) |
| Article 4(1) | Article 5(1) |
| Article 4(2) | Article 5(2) |
| Article 5(1), point (a) | Article 6(1), point (a) |
| Article 5(1), point (b) | Article 6(1), point (b) |
| Article 5(1), point (c) | Article 6(1), point (c) |
| Article 5(1), second subparagraph | — |
| Article 5(1), third subparagraph | Article 6(4) |
| Article 5(1), fourth subparagraph | Article 6(5) |
| Article 5(2) | Article 6(6) |
| Article 5(3) | Article 6(7) |
| Article 5(4) | — |
| Article 5(5) | Article 6(8) |
| Article 6 | Article 6(1), point (b) |
| Article 7(1) | Article 6(10) |
| Article 7(2) | Article 7(1) |
| Article 7(3) | Article 7(2) |
| Article 8(1) | Article 8(1) |
| Article 8(2) | Article 8(2) |
| Article 8(3) | Article 8(3) |
| Article 9(1) | Article 9(1) |
| Article 9(2) | Article 9(2) |
| Article 9(3) | — |
| Article 9(4) | — |
| Article 10(1) | Article 10(1) |
| Article 10(2) | Article 10(2) |
| Article 11 | Article 11 |
| Article 12(1) | Article 12(1) |
| Article 12(2) | Article 12(2) |
| Article 12(3) | Article 12(3) |
| Article 13 | — |
| Article 14 | Article 13 |
| Article 15 | Article 14 |
| Article 18 | Article 15 |
| Article 18a | Article 16 |
| Article 19 | Article 17 |
| Article 20 | Article 18 |
| Article 21 | — |
| Annex I | Annex I |
| Annex II | Annex II |