Czech Republic

Contacts
 Ing. Karel Bláha, CSc.
Ministerstvo životního prostředí ČR
Vršovická 65, 101 00 Praha 10 - Vršovice

Ing. Zdeněk Bělohlav
Vysoká škola chemicko-technologická
Technická 5, 166 28 Praha 6
telefon: +42-2-24353769 fax: +420-2-3119657

Name of the system: the Pollutant Release and Transfer Register

A. The Rise and Development of the System

Preparing a PRTR system has had two periods in our country. In 1994 working on the system roots started intensively. But many things have changed since then. The Czech Republic became Member country of OECD. The OECD prepared recommendation about the PRTR implementing to governments of its Member countries ( the complex version was passed on 20th and sent on 29th February 1996 ). And so the PRTR grant recipient has changed.

1994-1995 Registration of Toxic Releases in the Czech Republic

To create the system was the task of a small group of people from the Sustainable Development Society - Ing. Zdena Jurcikova, Ing. Ondrej Velek, JUDr. Petr Kuzvart. This task was financially supported by the Ministry of the Environment ( PPZP 85/94 ).

The task was:

  • to prepare a PRTR system for the Czech Republic ( 1994 ),
  • to process the system evaluating device ( 1995 ), to choose or produce software for risk assessment using reported data, to incorporate this software into GIS ( graphic informative system ) which is being constructed; data would be processed regionally in context with other information of the environmental toxicity,
  • to propose applications of the system ( 1996 ), i.e. to propose the legislative and methodical ways of using PRTR data for finding priorities of the state environmental policy.

    The results are:

  • a report of the project for the Ministry of the Environment
  • the pilot study preparations
  • a seminary in 1994
  • the book "Right to Information of Chemicals"
  • the range of data required of reporters
  • a proposed list of substances ( about 700 substances which were assessed by compilation of the international list called the SunSet Project and American and Canadian lists )
  • reporters group delimitating
      enterprises with more than 10 employees
        enterprises producing or using certain amount of substances
          relevance to one of following resorts: chemical and pharmaceutic industry, textile and clothing industry, tanning and wood-manufacturing industry, paper works and polygraphy, coking operations and crude refineries, nuclear fuel and radioactive substances production, rubber and plastics production;
        1. choosing software should have been done in cooperation with the UNIDO