The Directive also foresees that the Commission shall organize an exchange of information between Member States and the industries concerned on best available techniques, associated monitoring, and developments in them. These parties meet in the so-called “Information Exchange Forum”. Every three years the Commission shall publish the results of the exchanges of information.
The European Commission initiated a review process of the Directive in 2006 by carrying out various studies on issues related to implementation in the Member states, streamlining with other legal instruments, competitiveness issues and technical improvements to the Directive.
A Commission proposal for amending the Directive has been announced for the end of 2007. Main items under consideration for the review include:
- To integrate all legislation dealing with industrial emmissions into one framework Directive
- To make BREFs legally binding
- To set up an emission trading scheme on NOx and SO2 similar to the one existing for CO2.
Orgalime is actively participating in the “Seville Process”, meaning that we have nominated 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 including the following groups:
- Ferrous Metals Processing
- Non Ferrous Metals Production and Processing
- Surface Treatment of Metals
- Surface Treatment using Solvents
- Iron and Steel
- Waste Recovery/Disposal Activities
- Waste Incineration
- Large Combustion Plants
- Foundries
- Cooling Systems
- Paper/Pulp
- Slaughterhouses/Animal Carcasses
- Energy Efficiency Techniques
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 actively follows the developments concerning a possible revision of the IPPC Directive.
- Orgalime represented its industry's views at the Commission's public hearing organised in May 2007
- Orgalime contributed to the Commision's internet consultation on the upcoming review that closed on 18 June 2007
- Orgalime has also nominated an expert to the IPPC review experts group throughout the process of the Commission's impact assessment phase.
Orgalime follows IPPC developments in a specific IPPC task force.
Orgalime actively participates in BusinessEurope's work on IPPC.
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