IED Principles -
Public Participation
According to the Preamble of the IED (§27) and according to Article 24 of the Directive itself, the Directive ensures that the public has a right to participate in the decision-making process, and to be informed of its consequences, by having access to:
- permit applications in order to give opinions,
- permits,
- results of the monitoring of releases and
- the European Pollutant Release and Transfer Register (E-PRTR).
In E-PRTR, emission data reported by member states are made accessible in a public register, which is intended to provide environmental information on major industrial activities. E-PRTR has replaced the previous European Union-wide pollutant inventory, the so-called European Pollutant Emission Register (EPER).
The competent authority can make information available via the internet, under Article 24 (2) and 24 (3). In order to do so, referring to Article 14 (1d), the operator has to supply to the competent authority (at least annually) (a) emission monitoring results and other required data and (b) a summary of the results of emission monitoring (Article 15 (3b)).
For the presentation on "Public participation in the framework of the IED Directive" see the video podcast of Mr Jerzy Jendrośka:
