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Questionnaire of the ETC ICM on information on emissions from municipal and
industrial waste water treatment plants
Introduction:
This questionnaire has been developed by the European Topic Centre on Inland, Coastal and Marine Water
(ETC/ICM, lead organisation: CENIA) with the main aim of extending the EEA’s water topic area to the West
Balkan (WB) countries1. For this aim the WB countries are supported in establishing a regular annual data
exchange system with data being reported in the relevant formats (in line with reporting obligations of the
EU Member States).
The EEA has agreed with the countries on six Priority Data Flows covering rivers, ground water, lakes,
marine waters, emissions to water and water quantity, the latter two with reporting obligations from 2009
onwards. Priority data flows provide the data for the EEA core set of indicators. The ETC/ICM has been
actively involved in the development and maintenance of the reporting infrastructure - the system for data
collection, processing and assessment.
Purpose of the questionnaire:
The purpose of the questionnaire is to support West Balkan countries in establishing an inventory of point
source emissions 2(including municipal and industrial emissions) as well as in reporting under the following
data streams: UWWTD, WISE SoE emissions, EPRTR and waste water treatment relevant tables of the
Eurostat/OECD joint questionnaire on inland water. The questionnaire should guide the WB countries both
in the scoping for data available for regular reporting and also in the actual compilation of datasets. The
parameters requested in the questionnaire can serve multiple purposes, as they can be used for reporting
under the UWWTD and SoE Emissions; to identify and quantify significant point sources of pollution,
including hazardous substances (a requirement of the Water Framework Directive and EQS Directive) and
to serve as a base for the assessment of the quality of the data provided by operators of the facilities under
E-PRTR Regulation. The data from the final datasets, after its incorporation into the European wide
datasets, will be used in various EEA products, e.g. indicators, WISE maps, data viewers, specific
assessments etc.
Timeline:
The Deadline for this questionnaire on data availability is 30.4.2013. The deadline for the provision of actual
datasets will be agreed bilaterally with the nominated experts depending on data availability. The time
needed for data compilation and submission will determine the date of the final workshop (either late June
or September), where the products from the submitted data will be presented.
Helpdesk
In the case of any queries please contact the ETC ICM,
hana.prchalova@cenia.cz (with regard to emissions, EPRTR and industrial facilities) and petra.ronen@cenia.cz
(UWWTD, plants, agglomerations, discharge points,
receiving areas).
municipalities
aglomerations
industrial facilities
wastewater
treatment plants
discharge points
Questionnaire
receiving area
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Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, Montenegro, Serbia and Kosovo under UNSCR 1244/99
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Please note that the inventory of diffuse source is not covered in the questionnaire
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The questionnaire is divided into the following 7 data blocks:
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Country information
Municipalities
Agglomerations
Industrial facilities
Waste water treatment plants
Discharge points
Receiving areas
For each data block, the purpose of the requested data is given and the format (reporting template) in
which data should be submitted is provided. The illustration of sample data gives further guidance to the
data providers. The glossary is attached in the annex.
Data availability should be marked according to the following legend:
A
all data available
P
partly data available (e.g. for several regions),
please explain details under ‘remarks’
S
some data available (e.g. for municipalities > 1000
inhabitants)
NA
not available
Data block 1: Country information
What information is requested?
Item No.
1.1
1.2
1.3
1.4
1.5
Country information
Availability
number of inhabitants (total)
number of municipalities > = 1500 inhabitants
number of municipalities <1500 inhabitants
number of inhabitants in municipalities > 1500 inhabitants
number of inhabitants connected to collecting system
without treatment
A
A
A
A
S
1.6
Number of inhabitants connected to collecting system and
primary treatment as the highest type of treatment applied
S
1.7
Number of inhabitants connected to collecting system and
secondary treatment as the highest type of treatment
applied
S
1.8
1.9
Remarks (please
indicate if data
can be provided
by the end of
May or if more
time is needed)
Number of inhabitants connected to collecting system and
tertiary treatment as the highest type of treatment applied
S
Number of inhabitants connected to independent waste
water treatment
NA
1.10
Number of inhabitants in agglomeration smaller than 2 000
p.e.
NA
requiring data
from
municipalities
needed
requiring data
from
municipalities
needed
requiring data
from
municipalities
needed
in Montenegro
agglomerations
have not been
designated
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What is the purpose of the requested information?
The purpose of the collection of country information is to obtain an overview of the size distribution of
municipalities and the aggregated information on the waste water treatment at country level. Some
parameters from block 1 might be part of a regular data flow, e.g. Eurostat Joint Questionnaire on Inland
Waters. If this is so, please indicate it under the remarks section.
How to provide the data?
The template for data provision is attached in the annex.
Data block 2: Municipalities
What information is requested?
Item No.
2.1
2.2
2.3
2.4
2.5
2.6
municipalities
Availability
Code- ID
Name
Number of inhabitants
NUTS
RBD
NA
A
A
NA
A
Coordinates
S
Remarks (please
indicate if data
can be provided
by the end of
May or if more
time is needed)
requiring data
from
municipalities
needed
What is the purpose of the requested information?
The purpose of the data in block 2 is to obtain information on the individual municipalities, namely their
size and location in terms of both coordinates and River Basin District (RBD) and NUTS. Municipalities (> =
1500 inhabitants) may be used as a proxy for the main reporting unit of the UWWTD – agglomerations3, in
case agglomerations have not been designated.
How to provide the data?
The template for data provision is attached in the annex.
Data block 3: Agglomerations
What information is requested?
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Compliance with the requirements of the UWWTD is assessed at agglomeration level. Agglomeration is defined as“ According to the Article 2(4) of
the Directive: 'Agglomeration’ means: an area where the population and/or economic activities are sufficiently concentrated for urban waste water
to be collected and conducted to an urban waste water treatment plant or to a final discharge point”
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Item No.
agglomerations
Availability
Code- ID
Name
Generated load (in p.e.)
NUTS
RBD
Coordinates
Rate of generated load of agglomeration collected via a
collecting system (% of the total generated load in p.e.)
Rate of generated load of agglomeration addressed through
IAS (% of the total generated load in p.e.)p.e.)
Rate of generated load of agglomeration not collected via
collecting systems and not addressed through IAS (% of the
total generated load in p.e.)p.e.)
No. of inhabitants served by IAS per agglomeration
No. of inhabitants without treatment per agglomeration
Foreseen date of completion of the collecting system (in
case the collecting system is not in place)
NA
NA
NA
NA
NA
NA
3.1
3.2
3.3
3.4
3.5
3.6
3.7
3.8
3.9
3.10
3.11
3.12
Remarks (please
indicate if data can be
provided by the end of
May or if more time is
needed)
in Montenegro
agglomerations have
not been designated
NA
NA
NA
NA
NA
NA
What is the purpose of the requested information?
The purpose of the data in block 3 is to collect information on the waste water treatment at the level of the
main management unit of the Urban Waste Water Treatment Directive- agglomeration. In the case that
agglomerations have not been designated, it is possible to use municipality as a proxy. The term
agglomeration refers in the first place to a sufficiently concentrated area for urban waste water to be
collected and conducted to an urban waste water treatment plant. The existence of an agglomeration is
independent from the existence of the collecting system. Nor is the presence of an agglomeration related
to the existence of a treatment plant. The existence of an agglomeration relates to a de facto situation of
‘population and/or economic activities, which are sufficiently concentrated for urban waste water to be
collected and conducted to an urban waste water treatment plant or a final discharge point’. The concept
of agglomeration therefore also includes those areas which are sufficiently concentrated but where a
collecting system is not yet in place. Moreover, because the demands of the Directive shall be fulfilled also
in the future it is important to take the growth of the agglomeration into account when designing
wastewater collection systems and urban wastewater treatment plants. It should be underlined that the
agglomeration coincides with the sufficiently concentrated area itself and not with the de facto situation of
the existing “catchment area” of a collecting system (i.e. network of sewers) within the agglomeration.
However, the “catchment area” of a collecting system coincides with the limits of the agglomeration where
the connection rate for the agglomeration is 100 %. The designation of agglomeration needs to be assessed
on a case-by-case basis, and according to local conditions. It should be periodically reviewed.
How to provide the data?
The template for data provision is attached in the annex.
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Data block 4: Industrial facilities
What information is requested?
Item No.
4.1
4.2
4.3
4.4
4.5
4.6
4.7
4.8
industrial facilities
Availability
ID
Name
Number of generated load (in p.e.) - for food industry only
NUTS
RBD
Coordinates
NACE of facility
Economic activity according to E-PRTR Annex I - for E-PRTR
facilities obliged
NA
A
NA
NA
A
NA
NA
Type of facility (IPPC, E-PRTR)
ID of municipality - identification of related municipality
ID of agglomeration (for transfers mainly)
ID of WWTP (if treated)
A
NA
NA
NA
NA
4.9
4.10
4.11
4.12
Remarks (please
indicate if data can be
provided by the end of
May or if more time is
needed)
not E-PRTR evidenced,
no IPPC issued
The purpose of the data in block 4 is to collect information on the industrial facilities with significant
emissions from waste water. The industrial facilities could have their own waste water treatment plants
(releases according to the E-PRTR Regulation) or discharge the waste water to municipal or other collecting
systems and the treatment of mixed waste water is realized in another waste water treatment plant. Data
in the block helps to identify all significant industrial facilities (mainly under IPPC and/or E-PRTR).
How to provide the data?
The template for data provision is attached in the annex.
Data block 5: Wastewater treatment plants/collecting systems
What information is requested?
Item No.
5.1
5.2
5.3
5.4
5.5
5.6
5.7
5.8
Wastewater treatment plant/collecting system
Availability
Code-ID
Name
NUTS
RBD
Coordinates
Status of WWTP (non, planned, under construction,
operated)
Type of WWTP (urban, industrial)
ID of agglomeration/municipality (served by the WWTP or
NA
A
NA
A
S
A
A
NA
Remarks (please
indicate if data can be
provided by the end of
May or if more time is
needed)
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connected to the collecting system)
5.9
5.10
5.11
5.12
5.13
5.14
Organic design capacity (p.e.)
Type of treatment (none, primary, secondary, more
stringent, other)
Type of more stringent treatment (N removal, P removal,
other, chemical)
Type of other treatment (e.g. sand filtration, UV,
ozonization, chlorination, microfiltration)
Substance of incoming load (BOD, COD, N and P for urban
WWTs; relevant E-PRTR pollutants for industrial facilities)
Value of incoming load (tonnes per year, BOD, COD, TSS, N, P
for urban waste water treatment plants)
A
A
S
S
NA
NA
The purpose of the data in block 5 is to obtain information namely on the availability of data on waste
water treatment plants (parameters 5.1-5.14) and collecting systems (parameters 5.1-5.2 and 5.8). Key
information is the size and location of the plant, the type of treatment applied and the incoming load.
Some information could be relevant for UWWTPs only.
How to provide the data?
The template for data provision is attached in the annex.
Data block 6: Discharge points
What information is requested?
Item No.
6.1
6.2
6.3
6.4
6.5
6.6
6.7
6.7
6.9
6.10
6.11
Discharge points
Availability
Code-ID
Name
Coordinates
RBD
Type of discharge point (WWTP, agglomeration without
treatment, industrial facility without treatment)
Type of water body receiving the discharge (river, lake,
groundwater, transitional, coastal)
Information on the sensitivity of the water receiving the
discharge.
ID of water body
Substance of discharge (BOD, COD, N and P for UWWTPs;
relevant E-PRTR pollutants for industrial facilities)
Value of discharge (tonnes per year for BOD, COD, N and P;
kg per years for UWWTPs and other substances relevant to
E-PRTR for industrial facility)
Discharged volume (m3 per year)
NA
A
NA
A
Remarks (please
indicate if data can be
provided by the end of
May or if more time is
needed)
A
A
NA
NA
NA
NA
A
Data on discharge points and discharged loads in block 6 further extend the information on waste water
treatment plants. The purpose of this block is to review the availability attributes of discharge points (for
discharges from treatment plants and collecting systems without treatment), being it coordinates, location
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in RBDs, and the actual values of the annual discharged load of particular polluting substance and the
annual volume of treated water discharged. Moreover information on the type of water receiving the
discharge and on its sensitivity (e.g. in terms of eutrophication) is requested as well under block 6.
How to provide the data?
The template for data provision is attached in the annex.
Data block 7: Receiving areas
What information is requested?
Item No.
7.1
7.2
Receiving areas
List of rivers, lakes, coastal waters, transitional waters
designated as sensitive due to eutrophication,
Spatial data of the sensitive areas
Availability
Remarks (please
indicate if data can be
provided by the end of
May or if more time is
needed)
NA
NA
Finally block 7 requests the information on the availability of the information on waters receiving
discharges from collecting systems and/or waste water treatment plants. For the beginning it is sufficient to
know whether the receiving areas have been designated and whether there is spatial data available.
How to provide the data?
The template for data provision is attached in the annex.
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Annex: Glossary
Term
Definition
Reference
Municipality
Urban administrative division having corporate status
and usually powers of self-government.
The NUTS classification (Nomenclature of territorial units
for statistics) is a hierarchical system for dividing up the
economic territory of the EU for the purpose of the
collection, development and harmonisation of EU
regional statistics, socio-economic analyses of the
regions and framing of EU regional policies.
River Basin District
Data should be provided from national statistics.
NUTS
RBD
Agglomeration
Code- ID
p.e.
Generated
(in p.e.)
IAS
load
ID of industrial
facility
NACE
'Agglomeration’ means: an area where the population
and/or economic activities are sufficiently concentrated
for urban waste water to be collected and conducted to
an urban waste water treatment plant or to a final
discharge point”
Code of an object (municipality, agglomeration,
treatment plant) should always start with country prefix
Population equivalent is a measure of pollution
representing the average organic biodegradable load per
person per day: it is defined in Directive 91/271/EEC as
the organic biodegradable load having a five-day
biochemical oxygen demand (BOD5) of 60 g of oxygen
per day.[1].
Size of pollution load generated in agglomeration
(municipality) expressed in population equivalents.
Individual appropriate systems of waste water treatment
(septic tank, individual waste water treatment plants,
cess-pools, etc.)
ID of the industrial facility could be the same as ID for EPRTR (if the facility was reported in E-PRTR). All IDs are
used for clear link between municipality – agglomeration
– WWTP and discharges.
Statistical classification of economic activities
http://epp.eurostat.ec.europa.eu/portal/page/portal/na
ce_rev2/introduction
IPPC
IPPC = integrated pollution prevention and control
WWTP
Water body ID
Waste water treatment plant
Code of water body designated under the Water
Framework Directive, or national code. Code of an
object should always start with country prefix
Sensitive areas
A water body must be identified as a sensitive area if it
falls into one of the following groups:
(a) natural freshwater lakes, other freshwater bodies,
estuaries and coastal waters which are found to be
eutrophic or which in the near future may become
eutrophic if protective action is not taken.
http://epp.eurostat.ec.europa.eu/portal/page/por
tal/nuts_nomenclature/introduction
http://www.eea.europa.eu/themes/water/interac
tive/soe-wfd/wfd-river-basin-district-info-viewer
Article 2(4) of the Urban Waste Water Treatment
Directive
http://www.waterframeworkdirective.wdd.moa.g
ov.cy/docs/GuidanceDocuments/Guidancedoc9GI
S.pdf
http://epp.eurostat.ec.europa.eu/portal/page/por
tal/nace_rev2/introduction
http://eurlex.europa.eu/LexUriServ/LexUriServ.do?uri=OJ:L:
2008:024:0008:0029:EN:PDF
http://www.waterframeworkdirective.wdd.moa.g
ov.cy/docs/GuidanceDocuments/Guidancedoc9GI
S.pdf
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The following elements might be taken into account
when considering which nutrient should be reduced by
further treatment:
(i) lakes and streams reaching lakes, reservoirs, closed
bays which are found to have a poor water exchange,
whereby accumulation may take place. In these areas,
the removal of phosphorus should be included unless it
can bedemonstrated that the removal will have no effect
on the level of eutrophication. Where discharges from
large agglomerations are made, the removal of nitrogen
may also be considered;
(ii) estuaries, bays and other coastal waters which are
found to have a poor water exchange, or which receive
large quantities of nutrients. Discharges from small
agglomerations are usually of minor importance in those
areas, but for large agglomerations, the removal of
phosphorus and/or nitrogen should be included unless it
can bedemonstrated that the removal will have no effect
on the level of eutrophication;
(b) surface freshwaters intended for the abstraction of
drinking water which could contain more than the
concentration of nitrate laid down under the relevant
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provisions of Council Directive 75/440/EEC of 16 June
1975 concerning the quality required of surface water
intended for the abstraction of drinking water in the
Member States if action is not taken;
(c) areas where further treatment than that prescribed
in Article 4 of this Directive is necessary to fulfil Council
Directives.
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ID of WWTP (if treated)
Latitude
[decimal
degrees] (ETRS89)
ID of agglomeration (for transfers
mainly)
RBD
ID of municipality - identification
of related municipality
Type of facility (IPPC, E-PRTR)
NUTS
Economic activity according to EPRTR Annex I - for E-PRTR
facilities obliged
Number of
inhabitants
(thousands)
NACE of facility
Longitude [decimal degrees]
(ETRS-89)
Latitude [decimal degrees] (ETRS89)
Municipality
ID (Code)
RBD
NUTS
Name of
municipality
Number of generated load (in
p.e.) - for food industry only
Name
ID of facility
Number of inhabitants in agglomeration
smaller than 2 000 p.e.
Number of inhabitants connected to
independent waste water treatment
Number of inhabitants connected to
collecting system and tertiary treatment as
the highest type of treatment applied
Number of inhabitants connected to
collecting system and secondary treatment
as the highest type of treatment applied
Number of inhabitants connected to
collecting system and primary treatment as
the highest type of treatment applied
number of inhabitants connected to
collecting system without treatment
number of inhabitants in municipalities >
1500 inhabitants
number of municipalities <1500 inhabitants
number of municipalities > = 1500
inhabitants
number of inhabitants (total)
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Data templates
Data block 1
Data block 2
Longitude [decimal
degrees] (ETRS-89)
Data block 3
Table T_Agglomerations available at http://forum.eionet.europa.eu/x_wisereporting/library/treatment_directive/uwwtd_request_2011/supporting_documents/excel_templ_2011xls
Data block 4
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Data block 5
Table T_UWWTPs available at http://forum.eionet.europa.eu/x_wisereporting/library/treatment_directive/uwwtd_request_2011/supporting_documents/excel_templ_2011xls
Data block 6
For discharges from urban waste water treatment plants please use the Table T_DischargePoints
available at http://forum.eionet.europa.eu/x_wisereporting/library/treatment_directive/uwwtd_request_2011/supporting_documents/excel_templ_2011xls
Data block 7
Table T_ReceivingAreas available at http://forum.eionet.europa.eu/x_wisereporting/library/treatment_directive/uwwtd_request_2011/supporting_documents/excel_templ_2011xl
Discharged volume (m3 per year)
Value of discharge (tonnes per year for BOD, COD, N and P;
kg per years for UWWTPs and other substances relevant to
E-PRTR for industrial facility)
Substance of discharge (BOD, COD, N and P for UWWTPs;
relevant E-PRTR pollutants for industrial facilities)
ID of water body
Information on the sensitivity of the water receiving the
discharge.
Type of water body receiving the discharge (river, lake,
groundwater, transitional, coastal)
Type of discharge point (WWTP, agglomeration without
treatment, industrial facility without treatment)
RBD
Longitude [decimal degrees] (ETRS-89)
Latitude [decimal degrees] (ETRS-89)
Name
Code-ID
For discharges from industrial facilities, please use the following template