The Industrial Emissions Directive (IED) was formerly known as IPPC Directive

Directive 2010/75/EU published in the Official Journal on 17 December 2010 concerning Industrial Emissions (IED) merges the Directive 2008/1/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 15 January 2008 concerning integrated pollution prevention and control with six sectoral directives into a single Directive for the clarification and simplification of existing provisions.

The Directive establishes a general framework for the control of principal industrial activities with a view to controlling emissions arising from industrial installations into air, water and soil.

The Directive rules that installations should operate only if they hold a permit or in certain cases if they are registered. IED follows the concept of Best Available Techniques (or BAT ) according to article 3 of the Directive.

 

 

 

 

The Directive also foresees that the Commission shall organise an exchange of information between Member States, the industries concerned, non-governmental organisations promoting environmental protection and itself for the drawing up, review and updating of the BAT reference documents (BREFs), which should be considered for setting permit conditions. These documents are prepared by technical working groups (TWG) which meet up in Seville in the frame of the European IPPC Bureau.

Orgalime is actively participating in the “Seville Process”, meaning that we nominate experts to the European IPPC Bureau in Seville contributing to the work of the technical working groups on the following BREFs of relevance to our industries:

We also form part of the BUSINESSEUROPE delegation to the so-called “Information Exchange Forum (IEF)” established under the Directive.

In addition to these implementation activities, Orgalime has been actively following the developments during the revision of the IE Directive and will continue to do so.

Orgalime follows IED developments in a specific IED task force.

Orgalime actively participates in BusinessEurope's work on IED.

 

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