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The table show the top five emission reduction changes in pollutant releases into water in EU-27 Member States from 2010 to 2022.
- Industrial Reporting under the Industrial Emissions Directive 2010/75/EU and European Pollutant Release and Transfer Register Regulation (EC) No 166/2006 - ver. 10.0 Dec 2023 (Tabular data)
Methodology
Pollutant releases reported under E-PRTR/LCP dataflow for the relevant pollutant have been aggregated at EU-27 level and index against 2010 level has been calculated. Releases from Cd, Hg, Ni and Pb are aggregated together.
Additional information
TOC - total organic carbon, Total N - total nitrogen, Total P - total phosphorous, Cd - Cadmium, Hg - Mercury, Ni - Nickel, Pb - Lead. Croatia comparison is from 2014 because it was not an EU member state before.
Gap filling of non reported data is not performed to avoid production of anomalous % change between two given years.
For this reason Bulgaria, Czechia, Malta and Slovakia has been not considered.