Moldovan Environment Ministry to participate in European meeting on emissions, pollutants

Chisinau, 13 October /MOLDPRES/ - The Environment Ministry, jointly with the EcoContact Association, have organized a workshop to discuss the Pollutant Release and Transfer Register (PRTR) from Moldova. The event will take place in the context of a meeting of the parties to the Aarhus Convention, due to be held in Geneva on 18-22 October.   

The participants considered the need to improve the present system, the updating of data and facilitating the economic agents’ access to the electronic database. 

The PRTR Pollutant Release and Transfer Register national system represents an online platform for the submission of reports by economic operators on the release of pollutants in the air, water and soil, as well as the transfers of waste. The system covers 101 pollutants in seven groups.  

Presently, the Environment Ministry is the in process of transfer of PRTR maintenance to the Environment Agency, in order to integrate and analyze data, following the report’s working out.

The Aarhus Convention is an emblematic instrument for the democracy in environment issues. The convention and its protocol on the Pollutant Release and Transfer Register are the only international instruments with compulsory legal force, which enforce the principle 10 of the Rio de Janeiro Declaration on  Environment and Development. The European Union enforced the Aarhus Convention through a regulation which allows non-governmental organizations to introduce actions to European courts against decisions by EU institutions and organizations.  

Photo: Environment Ministry Ministerul Mediului