In the first quarter of each year, the so-called reporting period takes place, which includes a significant majority of legislative deadlines for reporting selected environmental obligations for the previous year, which are fulfilled through the Integrated System of Reporting Fullfilment ISPOP. It always starts at the beginning of the year with the deployment of the current version of the system, which contains the latest versions of the reporting forms and includes deadlines:
- 31 January selected water protection obligations
- 15 February selected packaging and water obligations (fee reporting)
- 28 February selected waste obligations
- 31 March selected air, IRZ and waste obligations (annual reports)
In 2023, more than 156,000 reports (156,619) were received for a total of 27 reporting obligations that obliged entities have to send to ISPOP, of which 98.9% were valid (the data standard was met and the reports did not show any validation errors).
Waste – reporting on waste production and management
In terms of the number of reports received, the largest reporting obligation is the reporting of production and management of waste. The most exposed period in terms of system load is before 28 February, the end of the reporting deadline for waste. On 27 February 2023, 8 304 such reports were sent via ISPOP. A total of 87 490 waste reporting units (reporting per head office or establishment) have reported by the 28 February 2023 deadline. Within the framework of the Waste Act (Act No. 541/2020 Coll.), the reporting thresholds for reporting for both 2021 and 2022 for obliged entities (waste generators) have been increased from the original 100 kg to 600 kg of hazardous waste, thus reducing the number of obliged entities.
Water
In the field of water protection, more than 28,000 reports were received – some of which are balance forms, the data for which are processed by the relevant river basin districts, and some of which are fee reports (returns for discharges of waste water into surface waters and returns for groundwater abstractions).
Air and IRZ
In the field of air protection, ISPOP received aggregated operational records for more than 17 000 establishments and over 700 fee declarations.
As part of the activities of the competent persons carrying out boiler inspections of operators of stationary combustion sources up to 300 kW, more than 5 000 reports on boiler inspections were sent via ISPOP.
In the IRZ (Integrated Pollution Register) agenda, the system received more than 2.5 thousand reports, of which more than 900 establishments reported E-PRTR activities according to Regulation No 166/2006 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 18 January 2006 establishing a European Pollutant Release and Transfer Register.
The remaining reports were sent to the system under the reporting obligations for annual waste reports, car wrecks, e-waste, landfill charges, packaging, controlled substances and fluorinated greenhouse gases. A complete list of reporting obligations is available on the ISPOP website.
Technical support
Czech Environmental Information Agency, through its Information Systems Management Department, provided written and telephone support during the reporting period. Over 80% of written enquiries were dealt with within one day of being made and over 80% of telephone enquiries were transferred to an operator within one minute. The number of user enquiries handled was in the following pattern:
- Total number of written queries – 1461
- of which resolved within 1 hour – 677
- of which resolved within 1 day – 507
- Total number of telephone enquiries dealt with – 2316
- Maximum number of operators (in one day) – 8
