There are many types and sizes of public or private reporting sectors. Reporting sectors identify which industrial sectors and activities are covered by a PRTR (e.g. manufacturing, electricity generation). By collecting information on reporting sectors, your country would be able to perform additional sector-level analyses and identify consistencies of how chemicals are managed within a specific sector.
For a cost-effective management scheme, you may wish to implement the next sub-element (Chemicals) or choose another element from the Management scheme elements list.
Relevant tools
Below is a list of tools relevant for implementing this topic :
- OECD: Recommendation of the Council on Implementing Pollutant Release and Transfer Registers1996 (2003)
- OECD: Global Pollutant Release and Transfer Register: Proposal for a Harmonised List of Reporting Sectors (2013)
- OECD: Guidance on Elements of a PRTR: Part I (2014)
- UNITAR and IOMC: Designing the Key Features of a National PRTR System, UNITAR Guidance Series for Implementing a National PRTR Design Project, Supplement 2 (1997)
- UNITAR, UNEP, and GEF: Final Meeting of the Steering Committee for the GEF Medium-sized project on “POPs Monitoring, Reporting and Information Dissemination using Pollutant Release and Transfer Registers (PRTRs)” (2012)