INFORMATION ABOUT POLLUTANT RELEASES ON I NTERNET

In the article, special attention is paid to practical realization of the ''right res know'' about pollutants using the World Wide Web, Five systems of PRTR (Pollutant Release and Transfer Registries) are intro duced showing their typical features and variations, The varied PRTR i nformation is provied by the UNEP organization. The access to Canadian system PRTR - NPRI (National Pollution Release Inventory) through Int ernet has been found to be the best way. Also British CHRI system (Che mical Release Inventory of the organization friends of the Earth), Ame rican TRIS (Toxic Release Inventory System) and Australian NPI (Nation al Pollulant Inventory) and Czech ECONNECT are presented as very effic ient Idols for the practical realization of the ''right to know''.