Long term success - Monitoring and improving the PRTR system

To evaluate the performance of a PRTR, your country may monitor:

  • Whether a PRTR is meeting the national and harmonisation goals set during PRTR initiation. For example, your country might review trends in releases and survey reporters about their pollution prevention activities to determine whether a PRTR is meeting a goal to promote reduction of releases;
  • Benefits and costs of a PRTR (e.g. avoided adverse environmental affects, procurement of IT infrastructure, facility personnel needed to track and report release and transfer data, etc.);
  • Routine operations of a PRTR (e.g. data handling and management mechanisms, data verification and validation, data dissemination, etc.);
  • How the PRTR fits in the context of national environmental policies and priorities; and
  • Harmonisation of a PRTR with other PRTR systems (e.g. overlap of the reporting universe with other PRTRs, utility of PRTR data for use in international-scale analyses).

For a cost-effective management scheme, you may wish to implement the next element (Enhancing the PRTR System Gradually) or choose another element from the Management scheme elements list.


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