Register of Mercury Temporary Storage Facilities
Description
The mapping included in this service contains the location of existing mercury waste storage facilities in Spain. Regulation (EU) 2017/852 on mercury, which, among many other obligations, requires Member States to report information on sites where mercury waste is accumulated in excess of 50 metric tonnes (Article 21). In Spain, this mercury comes from the dismantling of the chloro-soda industries. Currently in Spain there are only temporary storage facilities for mercury, but it is possible that in the future we will have a permanent storage facility.
These data have been obtained from two sources:
1.-The chlorine-soda industries that are in the process of dismantling.
2.- Las Minas de Almadén y Arrayanes S.A. (MAYASA), which currently operates as a mercury storage facility.
Temporary storage of mercury will be very limited in the near future since, after the closure of mercury technology in the chorus-soda sector in 2017, there are no longer large sources of mercury in Spain.
The data collected are updated as of December 31, 2019. Currently, the information report is made through the EIONET network. The data reported to date are available on the EIONET portal (https://cdr.eionet.europa.eu/en/eu/mercury/) a tool provided by the European Commission and is publicly accessible and free of charge.
Resources
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https://www.mapama.gob.es/app/descargas/descargafichero.aspx?f=gml_mercurio.zip, https://www.mapama.gob.es/app/descargas/descargafichero.aspx?f=mercurio.zip |
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https://wms.mapama.gob.es/sig/EvaluacionAmbiental/Residuos/Mercurio?request=getcapabilities&service=wms |