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Reportnet – an introductionReportnet – an introduction

Presentation for the Meeting on IPPC/WI

Brussels, 3 March 2009

Søren Roug, EEA

2008-11-12

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Data reporting before Reportnet… Data reporting before Reportnet… The Public and Decision-Makers

NFP, other National AuthoritiesPCP, NRC

EEA

Bigreport

consultants

ETCACC

ETCBD

ETCWater

CEC Others

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EEA

The Public and Decision-Makers

ETCACC

ETCBD

ETCWater

NFP and other National AuthoritiesPCP, NRC

ESTAT Others

DG ENV, others

Reportnet……and after :-)and after :-)

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What is Reportnet? What is Reportnet?

Reportnet is a system of integrated IT tools and processes creating a shared information infrastructure to support the reporting of environmental dataand information in Europe

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Reportnet modules Reportnet modules Reporting Obligations Database ROD

(A web database of reporting obligations) Data Dictionary/XML schemas

(Software tools for data element specifications) Data Exchange Modules

(Software tools supporting the delivery process) QA and conversion system Converters

(Tools to evaluate the quality of a delivery) Directory DIR

(A web database of users, organisations and roles) Central Data Repository CDR

(A website to upload reported data, Automatic QA)

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Waste reporting Waste reporting obligations in obligations in

RODROD

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Factsheet on the obligationFactsheet on the obligation

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Definitions in Reportnet Data DictionaryDefinitions in Reportnet Data Dictionary

Example:Noise Agglomerations

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CDR: the data from the countriesCDR: the data from the countries

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Delivery possibilitiesDelivery possibilities

• Uploading office files – Excel, Access etc. – Automatic QA is not possible

• Generate XML from database system and upload

• Filling out webforms – only for small amounts

• Uploading and converting special MS-Excel template

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CDR: delivering ELV DirectiveCDR: delivering ELV Directive

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Automatic Quality AssuranceAutomatic Quality Assurance

Application of QA scripts(:=============================================================:)(: Rule 1 :)(: Goes through all the Rows in the document and checks if there exist:)(: similar EWN codes in the same document:)(:=============================================================:)

declare function local:checkEWNCode($url as xs:string) { for $pn in fn:distinct-values(fn:doc($url)//dd8:EWN-Code) let $i := fn:doc($url)//dd8:EWN-Code= $pn] where fn:count($i) > 1 order by $pn return <b>{$pn}<br></br></b>};

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Completing the deliveryCompleting the delivery

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What happens after delivery?What happens after delivery?

• Automatic QA is run on all XML files• Delivery is made available to the public• Data Requester is notified• Requester does manual QA• Potentially requester rejects the

delivery• Then Reporter is notified and must fix the

issues

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Monitoring of data flowsMonitoring of data flows- ROD again- ROD again