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The Integrated Pollution Register (IPR) is a publicly accessible information system on chemical substances and their amounts released into the air, water and soil. Furthermore, it contains information about the transfer of these substances in waste or wastewater.

Reported substances, their amounts and origins are published on the IPR web site as of 30 September of the respective calendar year. The data can be looked up according to the region, environmental sector, industrial activity etc. All data about the discharged substances relate directly to a particular enterprise and can be localised on a map.

The IPR reporting obligation applies to all users of a registered substance, who discharge such monitored substances into the water, air, soil, or in transfers (see appendix 1 to the amendment of Government Order No.368/2003 Coll.) in an amount equal to or exceeding the reporting threshold.

The reporting threshold is an amount of a substance in kilograms per one calendar year. The user of a registered substance is obliged to report it to IPR only if the reporting threshold of the reported substances is reached or exceeded.

The reporting party is the user of a registered substance, i.e. the operator of facilities where a substance registered in IPR is processed or produced (see Act No.76/2002 Coll.). A total of 72 chemical substances are subject to reporting (e.g. polychlorinated biphenyls, dioxins and furans, polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons, sulphur oxides, greenhouse gasses such as carbon dioxide, methane, nitrous oxide, fluorinated hydrocarbons etc. and heavy metals). From the reporting year 2007, the list of substances will be expanded to 93 in accordance with the requirements of the EU.