WT BREF Review –
Launch of the Questionnaire.
Howard Leberman
Senior Advisor Site-Based Regulation
Environment Agency
Howard.leberman@environment-agency.gov.uk
07 884 11 76 50
BREF process
BREF BAT conclusions are adopted through Committee
procedure and are the reference for setting permit
conditions to installations covered by the IED.
The BREFs inform the regulatory bodies about what may
be technically and economically available to industry in
order to improve their environmental performance and
consequently improve the whole environment.
IED –BAT REF Documents
Standard format
Preface, Scope
Chapter 1 - General Information about the sector concerned
Chapter 2 - Applied Processes and Techniques
Chapter 3 - Current Emission and Consumption levels
Chapter 4 - Techniques to Consider in the determination of BAT
including economics
Chapter 5 - BAT Conclusions
Chapter 6 - Emerging techniques
Concluding remarks, future work, References, Glossary of terms,
Annexes
Article 13 Forum – MS/Industry/NGOs
Members are invited to submit comments on draft BREFs
before the Art 13 meeting.
Comments are classified as:
‘Consensual’ – these will normally be adopted;
‘Consensual with modification’ – the Commission will seek to
propose a form of words to make ‘Consensual’;
‘The views of certain MS’ – only discussed if MS really presses the
point.
Commission considers comments and makes changes as
it sees fit.
Article 75 Committee – MS only
MS are invited to discuss final draft BREF.
There normally follows a ‘shadow’ vote.
Further discussions.
Formal vote – qualified majority
Germany, France, UK, Italy – 29
Spain, Poland - 27
Romania – 14
Netherlands – 13
Greece, Portugal, Belgium, Czech Rep, Hungary – 12
Sweden, Bulgaria, Austria – 10
Denmark, Slovakia, Finland, Croatia, Ireland, Lithuania – 7
Slovenia, Estonia, Cyprus, Luxembourg – 4 Malta - 3
Opportunities to Influence
Technical Working Group – high.
Article 13 Forum – medium but comments need to have
broad support [consensual] and be presented in a way that
persuades the UK permanent representative to address
Commission. Points to raise 2-3 max.
Article 75 Committee – very limited – major ‘show
stoppers’ only. Points to raise MUST be so serious that
failure to address would warrant a UK vote against or
abstention.
WT BREF -Technical Working Group
Member States - AT, BE, BG, CY, HR, CZ, DK, FI, FR, DE,
EL, HU, IE, IT, MT, NL, PL, PT, RO, SK, SI, ES, SE, UK.
EEA Member States as observers.
Industrial NGOs - CEFIC, CEMBUREAU, CEPI, CEWEP,
CONCAWE, EBA, ECN, EFR, EPPSA, ERFO, ESRG,
ESWET, EUCOPRO, EURITS, EUROFER,
EUROMETAUX, EUPR, FEAD, GEIR, HWE, MWE,
ORGALIME.
WT BREF Sub Groups
Bio-wastes – Unico van Kooten [Dutch WMA].
• General techniques & Indoor composting – Kiara Zennaro [REA].
• Open air composting – Florian Amlinger [ARGE Kompost & Biogas
Austria]
• AD – David Wilken [German Biogas Association].
• MBT – Isabelle Pace [Veolia France].
Mechanical - Jochen Ebbing [German Institute of WM] & Ross Bartley
[EFR].
• Shredding of non-hazardous metal containing wastes.
• SRF/RDF production.
• Shredding of fridges, freezers and air-conditioning units.
Physico-chemical - Nicolas Humez [HW Europe].
WT BREF UK Working group
Howard Leberman – EA, UK WT BREF lead.
Leslie Heasman - ESA, Physico-chemical.
Howard Bluck - BMRA, Metal shredding.
Tina Benfield - CIWM, Bio-wastes & other.
Kiara Zennaro – REA, Bio-wastes.
Jakob Rindegren – ESA, Bio-wastes .
Dorian Harrison – ADBA, AD.
SEPA – Fiona Donaldson.
NRW – Julie Tate.
NIDoE – Michael Moody.
European reference plant
556 sites proposed across 17 Member States. Of this:
Germany – 119 sites
France – 70
UK – 64
Italy - 57
Austria - 40
Belgium – 34
Netherlands – 31
Spain – 30
Remaining 9 MS -111 sites
Types of UK plant
20 plant - Aerobic treatment.
12 - Anaerobic treatment.
06 - Physico-chemical treatment of high calorific wastes.
05 - Reuse of waste oils.
04 - Mechanical treatment in shredders of metal waste.
04 - Other e.g. plasma smelting; chemical sterilisation .
03 - Immobilisation of solid & pasty wastes.
02 - Blending/mixing.
02 - Mechanical treatment of high calorific waste.
02 - Physico-chemical treatment of liquid wastes.
02 - Regeneration of spent solvents.
01 - MBT.
01 - Repackaging.
The questionnaire
Information submitted in the questionnaire will be used
solely for the purpose of the review of the WT BREF.
Questionnaire is focused on emission & consumption data.
This should not be confidential.
If confidential, the reasons for claiming confidentiality
should be raised with Howard Leberman.
If considered confidential, information will be anonymised
in the BREF and TWG.
The confidential information will remain the responsibility
of the EA and EICCPB and will not be distributed.
Questionnaire worksheets
Waste treatment activity.
Waste input & output.
Waste input & output characteristics.
Storage & common steps.
Process – Mechanical; Biological; Physico-chemical.
Emissions to air & water.
Water consumption.
Raw materials consumption.
Energy consumption.
BAT candidate(s).
General instructions
Questionnaire should be completed using Microsoft Excel.
Macros must be enabled.
Always use the drop down menu & predefined options –
free-text fields are available.
Tool-tips provide instructions or guidance on how to
answer the questions.
Make use of the comments cell – to identify if data is
estimated; if in a different format to that requested; ....
Data reference years – 2010, 2011, 2012; Data from other
years allowed but you must identify the reference period.
How many questionnaires?
The purpose is to relate the information & data to a waste
technique.
One installation can have several reference plant – one
questionnaire for each [copy & rename the first – then
amend].
Multiple questionnaires may also be required • Multiple emission sources;
• Different waste inputs leading to significant differences in
emissions;
• Where significant year-dependant details are required.
Questionnaire time-line
All questionnaires to be submitted onto BATIS by 31
October 2014.
Questionnaire will need to be checked & submitted by
the MS.
Completed UK questionnaires requested by end of
September or earlier.
Send by email to howard.leberman@environment-agency.gov.uk
Bureau’s time-line
July 2014:
Bureau shares working document on Scope of BAT
conclusions (drafting of the text is ongoing).
Autumn 2014:
Bureau shares working document on BREF structure
(based on subgroup documents and data collection).
Bureau drafting D1 on the basis of collected data and
information.
Support
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Howard.leberman@environment-agency.gov.uk