Transcript Jiri Hradec

Integrated register of reported pollution (IPPC+)
Integrating polluter-to-government reporting flows (IRZ)
NATO SCIENCE PROGRAMME
in conjunction with the
Carnegie Bosch Institute
ADVANCED RESEARCH WORKSHOP
Life Cycle Analysis for Assessing Energy and
Environmental Implications of Information Technology
Jiří Hradec
Ministry of the Environment
of the Czech Republic
Political and technical background
Currently polluters have to report on their emissions, wastes,
discharges etc.
- 7 laws, 7 processes, 7 places to report to, 5 different dates
Czech Act No. 76/2000 on Integration pollution and prevention
control (IPPC) and Integrated pollution register (IRZ) fixes
reporting obligations.
THE GOAL:
- to facilitate unified approach for all the economic subjects
liable to reporting.
- to save money and effort on both sides, increase availability
and transparency
- to ensure comprehensiveness of information about pollution and sources
- to provide credible information to decision makers, the public and
international reporting
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IT oriented approach – database integration
Integration of the current
topic information
systems:
IRZ
Water
Waste
?
IRZ
Discharges
1. Clear standpoint of the
majority of IT staff
2. Easiest to understand
for decision makers (let‘s
buy some hardware!)
3. A great lure for IT
companies
EAI, WS, …
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Integration of reporting processes
Reporter
a factory, facility operator, etc
Desk officer
Receives the report
Portal
Apply forms, registration, security
IRZ
Validation, verification, registration
Integration of the current
topic reporting
processes:
1. The decision makers
unfamiliar with process
management and
reengineering
2. Requires thorough
process analysis
3. Anticipates process
optimization
Topic Information Systems
Data available for further processing
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Contents of the IRZ
Validation of the subject
- Owner‘s identity must be verifi(able)ed
- E.g. facility changed owner during year
Contents verification
- Any information reported must be verifi(able)ed
- E.g. reported emissions has been checked by
environmental inspectorates
The process of IRZ has
been characterised by:
-
Registration
- A comprehensive list of reporters, reports and
values reported
- Nowadays it takes weeks to find all the
information we have on a specific subject
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Transparency
Availability
Use of quality
measurement
Traceability
Year-to-year and
subjects in
neighborhood
comparison
Support of knowledge
management and
processing + technology
database
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Just a snippet of IT
Several tools available
-Catalog of data and information sources aka
metainformation system (Java+PHP)
-Data processing catalog (Java)
-XML/SOAP information broker (Java/Perl)
-Linguistic analyzer (Lotus Notes)
-Map server (ESRI ArcIMS 4.0.1)
-XML forms in a freeware XML editor (tbd)
The technology is evolving
quickly. XML / SOAP /
WSDL / UDDI seems to
have best value to cost
ratio.
Web services within IRZ:
- Broker handles XML
requests and routes the
data to services
- WSDL described
services in UDDI catalog
- All relevant information
systems SOAP enabled
-Portal toolkit + PKI (Java)
-mapmaker.env.cz, indikatory.env.cz
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Benefits
This system has several
clear benefits
1. eGovernment means
process optimization
(and savings)
Timetable:
Feb02 IRZ issue emerged
May03 IRZ process synthesis started
Sep03 IRZ process synthesis completed
 Nov03 Commence the programming!
 Jun04 First test reports
 Jan05 Day-to-day operation, fully staffed
2. Future reporting
obligations can be set up
in virtually no time and
for a fraction of initial
and running costs
3. Data mining, manager
information system,
support for case
hearings, etc.
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Conclusions
Why we actually do it?
We want to receive exact and credible data (perhaps for the first time) and
make our figures valid…
Thus we have to:
1. offer reporters the most convenient way of reporting (e.g. both paper and eversion)
2. make everything easy to understand and unambiguous
3. stay as close to the reporter as possible (reuse desk officers at local and
regional authorities, use portals)
4. try to verify a majority of the data reported
5. keep the doors open to PKI and other emerging technologies when they
become widely accepted
6. rope-in decision makers and reporters
7. not to get excited about IT possibilities!
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