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THE EUROPEAN COMMISSION,
Having regard to the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union,
Having regard to Directive 2012/18/EU of the European Parliament and of the Council of 4 July 2012 on the control of major-accident hazards involving dangerous substances, amending and subsequently repealing Council Directive 96/82/EC(1), and in particular Article 21(5) thereof,
Whereas:
(1) Article 21(3) of Directive 2012/18/EU requires the Member States to supply the Commission with information regarding establishments covered by that Directive using a specific report form.
(2) The report form should allow the communication of streamlined information by the Member States, in order to maximise the usefulness and comparability of the information provided and minimise the administrative burden for Member States, whilst also respecting the requirements of Directive 2007/2/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council(2) establishing an Infrastructure for Spatial Information in the European Community (INSPIRE).
(3) The measures provided for in this Decision are in accordance with the opinion of the Committee established by Council Directive 96/82/EC(3),
HAS ADOPTED THIS DECISION:
Member States shall supply the Commission with the information referred to in Article 21(3) of Directive 2012/18/EU using the reporting format laid down in the Annex to this Decision.
For existing entries in the database the information will be reviewed by 31 December 2016.
This Decision is addressed to the Member States.
Done at Brussels, 10 December 2014.
For the Commission
Karmenu Vella
Member of the Commission
All fields with an asterisk are mandatory.
Confidential information shall be marked as such with an indication for each type of data, of the grounds for refusal in accordance with Article 4 of Directive 2003/4/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council(4).
For security purposes, the Member State user will only be able to access eSPIRS by registering in ECAS, the European Commission Authentication System, by providing the following mandatory user information:
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name of user
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surname of user
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e-mail address of user
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National Reporter (NR) or National Administrator (NA)
Once the user has been authenticated, (s)he will be directed to the Major Accident Hazard Bureau's MINERVA portal where eSPIRS is housed. The user rights for the eSPIRS database will be granted according to the user role.
The user shall provide the information listed below using either the online reporting format allowing to import data for each establishment separately, or a national exporting tool using the eSPIRS XML template for automatic import of the information included in its national/regional/local establishment database(s) into eSPIRS.
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Official name of Reporting Competent Authority
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Street name where the Reporting Competent Authority is located
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City, town, village where the Reporting Competent Authority is located
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Postal code where the Reporting Competent Authority is located
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Country where the Reporting Competent Authority is located
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Comments the user may want to add regarding the Reporting Competent Authority
Seveso status*: [According to Seveso III there are two establishment tier statuses: upper tier and lower tier]
Name*: Name of Seveso establishment reported in eSPIRS
Parent Company: Holding company/parent company of the establishment
Personalized code: Code the user can enter if (s)he wants to still use the old code system in eSPIRS
Industry type and/or NACE Code*: Where an establishment relates to more than one SPIRS and/or NACE code, a distinction shall be made between primary activity and secondary activities.
Industry type to be indicated in accordance with the Seveso SPIRS Codes:
Agriculture
Leisure and sport activities (e.g. ice rink)
Mining activities (tailings and physicochemical processes)
Processing of metals
Processing of ferrous metals (foundries, smelting, etc.)
Processing of non-ferrous metals (foundries, smelting, etc.)
Processing of metals using electrolytic or chemical processes
Petrochemical/Oil Refineries
Power generation, supply and distribution
Fuel storage (including heating, retail sale, etc.)
Production, destruction and storage of explosives
Production and storage of fireworks
LPG production, bottling and bulk distribution
LPG storage
LNG storage and distribution
Wholesale and retail storage and distribution (excluding LPG)
Production and storage of pesticides, biocides, fungicides
Production and storage of fertilizers
Production of pharmaceuticals
Waste storage, treatment and disposal
Water and sewage (collection, supply, treatment)
Chemical installations
Production of basic organic chemicals
Plastic and rubber manufacture
Production and manufacturing of pulp and paper
Wood treatment and furniture
Textiles manufacturing and treatment
Manufacture of food products and beverages
General engineering, manufacturing and assembly
Shipbuilding, shipbreaking, ship repair
Building and works of engineering construction
Ceramics (bricks, pottery, glass, cement, etc.)
Manufacture of glass
Manufacture of cement, lime and plaster
Electronics and electrical engineering
Handling and transportation centres (ports, airports, lorry parks, marshalling yards, etc.)
Medical, research, education (including hospitals, universities, etc.)
General chemicals manufacture (not otherwise specified in the list)
Other activity (not otherwise specified in the list)
NACE code: NACE is the European industry standard related to a statistical classification of economic activities, consisting of a 6-digit code. The user may want to relate the Seveso establishment to this classification scheme, referring to the first 4 digits, in addition or as an alternative to the SPIRS codes.
Link to the website including further information on the establishment*
E-PRTR ID: Where the establishment is, fully or partly, covered by Regulation (EC) No 166/2006 of the European Parliament and of the Council(5), provide the national unique identifier used for the reporting of the facility under that Regulation, as well as the link to the relevant website.
IED ID (from 2016 data onwards): Where the establishment is, fully or partly, covered by Directive 2010/75/EU of the European Parliament and of the Council(6) (http://ec.europa.eu/environment/air/pollutants/stationary/ied/legislation.htm), provide all relevant national unique installation identifiers for the purposes of that Directive, as well as the link to the relevant website.
Establishment comments: comments the user may want to add regarding the reported establishment
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Street name, street number and city where the establishment is located
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Latitudinal coordinates of the establishment (if no address is given)
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Longitudinal coordinates of the establishment (if no address is given)
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comments the user may want to add regarding the establishment address
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The common name or the generic name or the hazard classification
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A CAS Registry Number is a unique numeric identifier, is designated to only one substance, has no chemical significance and is a link to a wealth of information about a specific chemical substance. It can contain up to 10 digits, divided by hyphens into three parts. (http://www.cas.org/content/chemical-substances)
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Amount of substance in tonnes
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Storage conditions under which the substance is maintained, such as state (solid, liquid, gas), granularity (powder, pellets, etc.), pressure, temperature, etc.
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comments the user may want to add regarding the establishment substances reported
Directive 2007/2/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 14 March 2007 establishing an Infrastructure for Spatial Information in the European Community (INSPIRE) (OJ L 108, 25.4.2007, p. 1)
Council Directive 96/82/EC of 9 December 1996 on the control of major-accident hazards involving dangerous substances (OJ L 10, 14.1.1997, p. 13).
Directive 2003/4/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 28 January 2003 on public access to environmental information and repealing Council Directive 90/313/EEC (OJ L 41, 14.2.2003, p. 26).
Regulation (EC) No 166/2006 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 18 January 2006 concerning the establishment of a European Pollutant Release and Transfer Register and amending Council Directives 91/689/EEC and 96/61/EC (OJ L 33, 4.2.2006, p. 1).
Directive 2010/75/EU of the European Parliament and of the Council of 24 November 2010 on industrial emissions (integrated pollution prevention and control) (OJ L 334, 17.12.2010, p. 17).
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