The EPER KML file is now available for download. Anyone who installs an earth browser as Google Earth can view and explore the EPER facilities and emission releases projected over satellite images and aerial photography. The EPER KML file provides the map layer to display EPER facilities in Europe on an earth browser. Here is a non exhaustive list of browsers that can be used for viewing the EPER KML file: Google Maps, Google Maps for mobile, NASA World Wind, ESRI ArcGIS Explorer, Adobe Photoshop, AutoCAD.

Romania has voluntary decided to provide a report containing EPER emissions data for the year 2005 according to Article 1.2 and 1.3 of the EPER 2000/479/EC Decision. This is the first version of the Romanian National EPER and it includes 260 EPER facilities representing approximately 40% of the total number of 638 IPPC installations inventoried.

In 2005, first reporting year, a large proportion of EPER facilities is in the Energy sector (42 facilities) and in the Intense livestock farming sector (120 facilities).

The European Pollutant Release and Transfer Register (European PRTR) has been adopted on 18 January 2006 with the Regulation (EC) No 166/2006. The E-PRTR's website will be on-line in 2009, providing data of 27 EU countries for the first reporting year 2007. The European PRTR implements the UNECE PRTR Protocol, signed in May 2003 in Kiev; and it replaces the existing European Pollutant Emission Register (EPER).

E-PRTR will cover more than 91 substances emitted in 65 different sectors of activity (being more comprehensive than EPER which covers 50 substances and 56 sectors), and it will include data on transfers of waste and waste water from industrial facilities to other locations as well as data on emissions caused by accidents on the site of the facilities. The European PRTR will be published annually, a much shorter time period than the triennial reports under EPER.

Data on releases from diffuse sources such as road traffic, agriculture, domestic heating, shipping, etc. will be included; a first pilot inventory on releases from diffuse sources is already accessible.

In order to facilitate the implementation of the European PRTR, the European Commission in co-operation with the Member States and other stakeholders, has published a Guidance document for implementation of the European PRTR in 22 languages.