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Main pesticide discharge from facilities is not caused by those manufacturing pesticides but from urban wastewater treatment plants, which receive inputs from a range of sources (see section 2.4). It needs to be stated, that within the E-PRTR, that only the discharge of large facilities needs to be reported (e.g. waste water treatment plants above 100 000 population equivalents), and not all of them reported pesticides in their effluent.

Table 3.3 shows the list of pesticide emissions to water, the number of records (emission load from one facility within one year for given pollutant – e.g. if the emission load from two facilities is reported every year for ten years, it will result in twenty records, and the number of countries, in which these releases were reported under E-PRTR. Furthermore, information on monitoring time period, if the specific substance is still approved (Yes or No), and the count of monitored facilities are listed.