Press Release: Commission and EEA win award for informing the public on industrial pollution

The European Commission and the European Environment Agency (EEA) on 14 April 2005 won the European Information Association's award for best new electronic information source for the publication of the European Pollutant Emission Register (EPER). EPER is the first Europe-wide register of industrial emissions into air and water and was launched in February 2004. It makes detailed information on pollution from around 10,000 large industrial facilities in the EU and Norway publicly accessible on the internet for the first time.

European Information Association: Awards http://www.eia.org.uk/awards.htm

EPER: Homepage http://www.eper.cec.eu.int/

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