EEA geospatial data catalogue
Industrial pollutant releases to water in Europe (2010-2023)
This indicator tracks trends of industrial emissions of selected water pollutants. The indicator includes releases of certain heavy metals (cadmium, nickel, mercury and lead, presented as the sum of the releases of the four), nutrients (nitrogen and phosphorus) and a global parameter to indicate the load of organic matter (total organic carbon). In addition the indicator show the evolution of the Gross Value Added (GVA) from Industry.
Dimensions available in the time-series data:
1. Industrial pollutant releases to water in Europe – Heavy Metals (Cd, Hg, Ni, Pb)
2. Industrial pollutant releases to water in Europe - Total Organic Carbon
3. Industrial pollutant releases to water in Europe - Total Nitrogen
4. Industrial pollutant releases to water in Europe - Total Phosphorus
5. Industrial pollutant releases to water in Europe - Gross Value Added
Simple
Identification info
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Date (Creation)
- 2025-07-03
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Date (Publication)
- 2025-07-04
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Date (Revision)
- 2025-08-19
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Edition
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01.00
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Citation identifier
- eea_s_indp005_p_2010-2023_v01_r00
Identifier
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Status
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Superseded
- Point of contact
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Organisation Individual Electronic mail address Website Role European Environment Agency
Point of contact
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Topic category
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Environment
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Extent
Temporal extent
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Time period
- 2010-01-01 2023-12-31
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Maintenance and update frequency
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Annually
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Date
- 2025-12
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Date type
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Next Update
Resource constraints
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Use constraints
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Other restrictions
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Other constraints
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License CC-BY 4.0 ( https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). Copyright holder: European Environment Agency (EEA).
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Language
- English
Distribution Information
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Distribution format
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Microsoft Excel (.xls, .xlsx)
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ascii (.csv, .txt, .sql)
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OnLine resource
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Direct download
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OnLine resource
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EEA Indicator: Industrial pollutant releases to water in Europe
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OnLine resource
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European Industrial Emissions Portal
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OnLine resource
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European Pollutant Release and Transfer Register (E-PRTR)
Data quality info
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Hierarchy level
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Dataset
Report
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Name of measure
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Frequency of dissemination
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Measure description
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Indicator is updated every year.
Result
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Value
- Every year
Report
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Name of measure
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Timeliness
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Measure description
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New data points are disseminated within three years after the reference year.
Result
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Value
- > T+2 years
Report
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Name of measure
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Reference area
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Measure description
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Data are presented for all EU Member States. The following countries (Iceland, Liechtenstein, Norway, Switzerland, Montenegro, Serbia) report data under the legislative instrument but they are not included into the indicator.
Result
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Value
- All EU MS
Report
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Name of measure
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Comparability - geographical
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Measure description
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Comparability of the data should be done at EU27 aggregated level.
Result
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Value
- All EU MS
Report
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Name of measure
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Time coverage
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Measure description
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Presented time series (including EU aggregates) starts in 2010.
Result
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Value
- > 10 years
Report
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Name of measure
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Comparability - over time
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Measure description
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Harmonized time series covering all reference years.
Result
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Value
- > 4 data points
Resource lineage
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Statement
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Data reported under the E-PRTR Regulation undergoes under several QA steps: one at the submission of data and one after the technical acceptance of data. MS are requested to resubmit data in case of relevant outlier are identified. Data reporting is defined by threshold: this implies that timeseries at country level might be incomplete or affected by a variable number of data point from year to year. In case MS are late in reporting, the EEA uses the most recent aggregated value at national level to gap fill missing data in order to assess the aggregated EU27 value. In this current version, only data for 2023 are gap filled due to missing data from Czechia, Lithuania, Malta and Slovakia.
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Hierarchy level
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Dataset
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Source
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- Industrial Reporting under the Industrial Emissions Directive 2010/75/EU and European Pollutant Release and Transfer Register Regulation (EC) No 166/2006 - ver. 14.0 Mar. 2025 (Tabular data)
- Industrial Reporting under the Industrial Emissions Directive 2010/75/EU and European Pollutant Release and Transfer Register Regulation (EC) No 166/2006 - ver. 14.0 Mar. 2025 (Tabular data)
- https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/cache/metadata/en/nama_10_gdp_esms.htm
Metadata
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Metadata identifier
- 3df3b375-abbb-48b6-bb35-09e4f6609f35
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Language
- English
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Character encoding
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UTF8
- Contact
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Organisation Individual Electronic mail address Website Role European Environment Agency
Point of contact
Type of resource
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Resource type
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Non geographic dataset
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Name
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Tabular dataset
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Date info (Creation)
- 2025-07-03T12:09:43.774166Z
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Date info (Revision)
- 2026-05-28T07:27:03.908985Z
Metadata standard
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Title
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ISO 19115/19139
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Edition
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1.0
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