Screening Regulatory Impact Analysis
Proposed Directive on Industrial Emissions
1.
INTRODUCTION
1.1
This is a Screening Regulatory Impact Analysis (RIA) on the proposed Directive on
Industrial Emissions (Integrated Pollution Prevention and Control). The proposed
Directive revises and merges seven separate existing Directives related to industrial
emissions into a single Directive. The Directive proposes to amend and simplify
existing legislation related to industrial emissions which applies minimum standards
for the prevention and control of industrial emissions across the whole Community. A
copy of the proposed Directive is available on the Department's website
(www.environ.ie).
1.2
The purpose of this Screening RIA is to outline the contents of the proposed Directive
and to seek the views of stakeholders so as to inform Ireland's negotiating position
with a view to minimising any potentially negative implications for Ireland. Comments
are invited on any aspect of this document or on any aspect of the proposed
Directive. Comments must be received by 25 July 2008.
1.3
This Screening RIA will be subject to further amendment and refinement in light of
the negotiations at European level, and as part of the subsequent transposition of the
adopted Directive into Irish law.
2.
DESCRIPTION OF POLICY CONTEXT, OBJECTIVES AND OPTIONS
2.1
Policy Context
2.1.1
Emissions from industrial installations have been subject to EU-wide legislation for
some time. This legislation includes:
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Directive 96/61/EC concerning integrated pollution prevention and control
(IPPC) which sets out the main principles for the permitting and control of
installations based on an integrated approach and the application of best
available techniques (BAT) which are the most effective techniques to
achieve a high level of environmental protection, taking into account the costs
and benefits; and
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sectoral Directives which regulate the emissions (generally to air and water)
of installations from certain industrial sectors; these Directives define specific
requirements (generally emission limit values and monitoring provisions) for
certain pollutants for the installations concerned; the Directives are those
relating to large combustion plants (2001/80/EC), waste incineration
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(2000/76/EC), and activities using organic solvents (99/13/EC) and waste
from the titanium dioxide industry (78/176/EEC, 82/883/EEC, 92/112/EEC).
2.1.2
In 2005, the European Commission launched a review of the EU industrial emissions
legislation with a view to ensuring its environmental and cost-effectiveness. The
review involved an extensive programme of studies and continuous and structured
consultation with stakeholders.
2.1.3
Based on a detailed analysis of the current situation and the outcome of the review
process, the Commission identified five specific problems:
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insufficient implementation of Best Available Techniques (BATs) leading to
limited progress in the prevention and reduction of industrial emissions and to
distortion of competition due to large differences in environmental standards;
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limitations with regard to compliance, enforcement and environmental
improvements that hinder environmental effectiveness and the stimulation of
innovation;
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unnecessary administrative burdens due to the complexity and inconsistency
of parts of the current legal framework;
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insufficient scope and unclear provisions of the current IPPC Directive that
could hinder the achievement of the objectives set in the Commission's
Thematic Strategies (Air Pollution, Soil Protection, and Prevention and
Recycling of Waste); and
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a constraint on the use of more flexible instruments such as NO x and SO2
emission trading systems.
2.1.4
The Commission is now proposing a Directive on industrial emissions aimed at
strengthening the provisions already in force and reducing industrial emissions
throughout the EU. The proposed Directive and Explanatory Memorandum was
published by the Commission on their website on 21 December 2007. In addition,
the Commission also published a number of accompanying documents, these are
their: Impact Assessment of the Proposed Directive; an Executive Summary of this
Impact Assessment; and policy document, Towards an improved policy on industrial
Emissions.
These documents are available on the Commission's website
(http://ec.europa.eu/environment/ippc/proposal.htm).
2.1.5
The main features of the proposed Directive on industrial emissions are outlined in
Appendix 1.
2.2
Objectives
2.2.1
The overall objective of the proposed Directive is to prevent and control pollution and
its impacts arising from industrial activities so as to achieve a high level of protection
of human health and the environment; and to achieve this in the most cost-effective
and efficient way while ensuring the reduction of unnecessary administrative
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burdens. To achieve this overall objective, the proposed Directive has a number of
specific objectives and these are outlined below.
2.2.2
The proposed Directive aims to increase the effectiveness of the legislation by
supporting Member States in implementing BAT-based permitting. The Directive
aims to improve and clarify the concept and use of BAT and increases transparency
by requiring that the use of flexibility must be justified and documented leading to a
more coherent and EU-wide application of BAT. It also strengthens existing
minimum requirements in certain sectors such as Large Combustion Plants so as to
ensure the achievement of objectives of the Commission's Thematic Strategy on Air
Pollution.
2.2.3
The proposed Directive aims to further increase the effectiveness of the legislation by
strengthening provisions on enforcement and environmental improvement, while
stimulating innovation.
The Directive introduces minimum provisions on
environmental inspections of installations, the review and update of permits, and
reporting of compliance. It also provides incentives for the development and
promotion of environmentally-friendly technologies.
2.2.4
The proposed Directive aims to cut all identified unnecessary administrative burden
and simplify current legislation. The Directive tackles the shortcomings of current
EU legislation on industrial emissions by overhauling the seven existing pieces of
legislation on industrial emissions. It aims to improve the clarity and coherence of
the legislation and reduces the administrative burden through combined
requirements on granting permits and streamlined reporting.
2.2.5
The proposed Directive aims to better contribute to the objectives of the Thematic
Strategies by amending, where cost-effective, the current scope and provisions of the
IPPC Directive. The Directive clarifies the current scope of the IPPC Directive
including waste treatment activities. It provides for the inclusion of some additional
activities in the IPPC code such as combustion installations between 20 and 50 MW,
preservation of wood and wood products, production of wood based panels, and
specific waste treatment activities. It also introduces more specific provisions on soil
monitoring and remediation.
2.3
Identification of Options
2.3.1
The proposed Directive will be subject to discussion and negotiation by the
Commission's Environment Working Group, made up of representatives from all the
Member States and will require political agreement by Environment Ministers. In
addition, the approval of the European Parliament will also be required.
2.3.2
As such, the final text of the Directive will depend on the outcome of these
negotiations and discussions. It is unclear how long this negotiation period will be.
The proposed Directive suggests that the Directive would enter into force on 1
January 2011 and that Member States would be given 18 months to transpose the
proposed Directive. Some transitional provisions are provided in the proposed
Directive to allow existing installations time to technically adapt to the new
requirements of the Directive
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2.3.3
The options for transposing the proposed Directive will be considered in light of the
final negotiated text of the Directive when it is adopted by the Council and the
Parliament.
2.3.4
The recasting and revision of the seven pieces of existing EU legislation would
inevitably result in a review of existing domestic legislation and amendments where
appropriate. The table below outlines details of the domestic legislation which will
need to be examined in light of the final negotiated text of the Directive when adopted
by the Council and the Parliament.
Community Legislation
Details of Domestic Legislation transposing
these Directives
Council Directive 78/176/EEC of 20 February
1978 on waste from the titanium dioxide industry
Council Directive 82/883/EEC of 3 December
9182 on procedures for the surveillance and
monitoring of environments concerned by waste
These Directives have not been transposed
from the titanium dioxide industry
into Irish law as Ireland does not have a
Council Directive 92/112/EEC of 15 December
titanium dioxide industry
1992 on procedures for harmonizing the
programmes for the reduction and eventual
elimination of pollution caused by waste from the
titanium dioxide industry (the last three are
known collectively as "TiO2 Directives")
Council Directive 96/61/EC of 24 September The Environmental Protection Agency Acts
1996 concerning integrated pollution prevention 1992 to 2003, the Environmental Protection
and control ("IPPC Directive")
Agency (Licensing) Regulations 1994 to 2004,
and the Waste Management (Licensing)
Regulations 1997 to 2004 primarily transpose
the IPPC Directive. Details of the full suite of
relevant legislation are outlined at Appendix 2.
Council Directive 99/13/EC of 11 March 1999 on Environmental Protection Agency Acts 1992 to
the limitation of emissions of volatile organic 2003, Emissions of Volatile Organic
compounds due to the use of organic solvents in Compounds from Organic Solvents
certain activities and installations ("VOC Solvents Regulations 2002 (S.I. No. 543 of 2002),
Directive")
Limitation of Emissions of Volatile Organic
Compounds due to the use of Organic Solvents
in Certain Paints, Varnishes and Vehicle
Refinishing Products Regulations 2007 (S.I.
No. 199 of 2007)
Directive 2000/76/EC of the European Parliament The Environmental Protection Agency Acts
and of the Council of 4 December 2000 on the 1992 to 2003, the Environmental Protection
incineration of waste ("Waste Incineration Agency (Licensing) Regulations 1994 to 2004,
Directive")
and the Waste Management (Licensing)
Regulations 1997 to 2004, Waste Management
Act 1996, European Communities (Incineration
of Waste) Regulations 2003 (S.I. No. 275 of
2003)
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Community Legislation
Directive 2001/80/EC of the European Parliament
and of the Council of 23 October 2001 on the
limitation of emissions of certain pollutants into
the air from large combustion plants ("LCP
Directive")
Details of Domestic Legislation transposing
these Directives
The Environmental Protection Agency Acts
1992 to 2003, Air Pollution Act 1987, Large
Combustion Plants Regulations 2003 (S.I. No.
644 of 2003)
3.
IDENTIFICATION OF COSTS, BENEFITS AND IMPACTS
3.1
Costs
3.1.1
The proposed Directive has cost implications for the operators of those activities
coming within the scope of the Directive. It also has implications for the EPA as the
EPA has already been designated as competent authority for most of the Directives
which are now being amended by the proposed Directive. The extent of the cost
implications for these and others that may be affected by the proposed Directive will
depend on the final negotiated text when (and if) the Directive is adopted by the
Council and the Parliament, and on its subsequent transposition into Irish law.
However, stakeholders may identify specific cost implications of the proposed
Directive as part of the consultation on this Screening RIA.
3.1.2
The Commission in their Impact Assessment of the proposed Directive considers that
the Directive will eliminate unnecessary administrative burdens through combined
permitting and through streamlined reporting and monitoring and as such will provide
cost savings for both operators and competent authorities.
3.2
Benefits
3.2.1
The proposed Directive has benefits for the operators of those activities coming
within the scope of the Directive, the EPA as competent authority for the Directives
being amended by the proposed Directive, and for consumers in general. The extent
of the benefits for these and others that may be affected by the proposed Directive
will depend on the final negotiated text when the Directive is adopted by the Council
and the Parliament, and on its subsequent transposition into Irish law. However,
stakeholders may identify specific benefits of the proposed Directive as part of the
consultation on this Screening RIA.
3.2.2
The Commission in their Impact Assessment of the proposed Directive considers that
the Directive will provide health and environmental benefits from enhanced take up of
BAT, the inclusion of additional (IPPC) activities within the scope of the proposed
Directive, and specific provisions relating to the application and enforcement of the
proposed Directive leading to the achievement of environmental objectives.
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3.3
Other Impacts
3.3.1
The Commission in their Impact Assessment of the proposed Directive considers that
the Directive will have no significant long-term impacts on competitiveness, social
impacts or detrimental long-term effects on economic growth given possible flexibility
in well-founded and documented cases. In addition, the analysis showed that a more
unified application of BAT would help reduce distortion of competition in the industry
sectors covered by the proposed Directive.
3.3.2
The impacts on National Competitiveness, Socially Excluded or Vulnerable Groups,
the Environment, Consumers and Competition, the Rights of Citizens, and
Compliance Burdens will depend on the final negotiated text when the Directive is
adopted by the Council and the Parliament, and on its subsequent transposition into
Irish law. However, stakeholders may identify specific impacts of the proposed
Directive in this area as part of the consultation on this Screening RIA.
3.3.3
The Directive will, to some extent, involve familiarisation for regulating authorities and
licensees with a new statutory framework at a time when many licensees, especially
those whose activities are within the IPPC system, are only now becoming
conversant with the existing regulatory regime. The question might be asked as to
whether the Commission could secure some of the benefits it seeks (more uniform
use of BAT, for example) through amending existing regulatory provisions as
opposed to replacing them with a new and complicated system.
3.4
Summary of Costs, Benefits and Impacts
3.4.1
The summary of costs, benefits and impacts will be identified in light of the outcome
of the consultation on this Screening RIA, the conclusions on the final negotiated text
when the Directive is adopted by the Council and the Parliament, and having regard
to the transposition of the Directive into Irish law.
4.
CONSULTATION
4.1
In formulating their proposals on the proposed Directive, the Commission undertook
an extensive programme of studies and continuous consultation with stakeholders.
Details of the consultation is outlined in the Commission's Impact Assessment of the
proposed Directive.
4.2
As part of the negotiations on the proposed Directive, the Department is engaging
with other Government Departments, agencies, and key stakeholders as well as the
public in general and this Screening RIA is being placed on the Department's website
(www.environ.ie) for this purpose. The outcome of this consultation process and
other further consultations that will arise in transposing the final negotiated and
adopted Directive will be recorded in the final version of this RIA.
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5.
ENFORCEMENT AND COMPLIANCE
5.1
The EPA is the competent authority for the Directives that are being recast in the
proposed Directive. As such, it is envisaged that the EPA will be the appropriate
agency to enforce the proposed Directive. However this will depend on the final
negotiated text of the Directive when it is adopted by the Council and the Parliament.
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REVIEW
6.1
Mechanisms to review the Directive will depend on the final negotiated text of the
Directive when it is adopted by the Council and the Parliament.
Environment Policy Section
Department of the Environment,
Heritage and Local Government
April 2008
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Appendix 1
Main Features of the Proposed Directive on Industrial Emissions
Aim
The proposed Directive on industrial emissions is aimed at strengthening the provisions
already in force and reducing industrial emissions throughout the EU.
Content
The proposed Directive revises and merges seven separate existing Directives related to
industrial emissions into a single Directive.
The seven existing Directives are the :
- 3 Titanium Dioxide Directives (78/176/EEC, 82/883/EEC and 92/112/EEC on waste from
the titanium dioxide industry);
- Integrated Pollution Prevention and Control (IPPC) Directive (96/61/EC);
- Volatile Organic Compounds (VOC) Solvents Directive (99/13/EC);
- Waste Incineration Directive (2000/76/EC); and
- Large Combustion Plants (LCP) Directive (2001/80/EC).
The European Commission uses the recasting technique to combine in single text both the
substantive amendments proposed to the Directives and those of their original provisions
which remain unchanged.
The relationship between the various articles and annexes in each of the seven existing
Directives with the proposed Directive are outlined in Annex X of the proposed Directive.
The adoption of the proposed Directive will lead to the repeal of the seven existing Directives
(Article 72 and Annex IX of the proposed Directive refers).
Scope of Proposed Directive
The proposed Directive applies to :
- activities covered by the IPPC Directive and other activities which are being included in
the IPPC code; these are listed in Annex I and further details of these are provided below
(Article 11 of the Proposed Directive refers);
- activities covered by the VOC Solvents Directive; these activities are those listed in Part I
of Annex VII which reach the consumption thresholds set out in Part 2 of that Annex
(Article 51 of the Proposed Directive refers);
- combustion plants designed for production of energy, the rated thermal input of which is
equal to or greater than 50 MW irrespective of the type of fuel used (Article 31 of the
Proposed Directive refers);
- waste incineration plants and waste co-incineration plants which incinerate or coincinerate solid or liquid waste (Article 38 of the Proposed Directive refers); and
- installations producing titanium dioxide (Article 61 of the Proposed Directive refers).
Structure of the Proposed Directive
The proposed Directive is divided into 7 Chapters containing a total of 75 Articles and 10
Annexes. A summary of the contents of these Chapters is outlined below.
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
Chapters
Chapter I (Articles 1 to 10) contains common provisions dealing with definitions, scope,
issues relating to the holding and granting of a permit and compliance matters. This
Chapter primarily recasts the IPPC Directive but includes some amendments to the VOC
Solvents, LCP and Waste Incineration Directives. This Chapter applies to all industrial
activities covered by the proposed Directive.
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Chapter II (Articles 11 to 30) deals with special provisions for activities listed in Annex I
of the proposed Directive. That Annex is effectively an amended version of Annex I of
the IPPC Directive. The various articles in this Chapter relate to obligations of the
operator, applications for permit, BAT and BAT reference documents, permit conditions,
emission limit values, monitoring requirements, general binding rules, site closure and
remediation, inspections, compliance and reporting, access to information and public
participation, access to justice as well as transboundary issues. Effectively, this Chapter
recasts the IPPC Directive and amendments to that Directive and as such this Chapter
only concerns IPPC activities as now listed in Annex I of the proposed Directive.

Chapter III (Articles 31 to 37) deals with special provisions for combustion plants and
primarily recasts the LCP Directive. The various articles in this Chapter relate to scope,
aggregation rules, emission limit values, monitoring and compliance.
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Chapter IV (Articles 38 to 50) deals with special provisions for waste incineration and
waste co-incineration plants and primarily recasts the Waste Incineration Directive. The
various articles in this Chapter relate to scope, permit applications and conditions,
control and monitoring of emissions, compliance, operating conditions, and delivery and
reception of waste.
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Chapter V (Articles 51 to 60) deals with special provisions for installations and activities
using organic solvents and primarily recasts the VOC Solvents Directive. The various
articles in this Chapter relate to scope, definitions, control and monitoring of emissions,
compliance and reporting, and access to information.

Chapter VI (Articles 61 to 65) deals with special provisions for installations producing
titanium dioxide and primarily recasts the three Titanium Dioxide Directives. The various
articles in this Chapter relate to scope, and control and monitoring of emissions.

Chapter VII (Articles 66 to 75) deals with committee, transitional and final provisions.
The various articles in this Chapter relate to competent authority, reporting by Member
States, penalties, transposition, repeal and entry into force of the proposed Directive.
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Annexes
Annexes I to IV are a recasting of Annexes I to IV of the IPPC Directive. These Annexes
concern categories of industrial activities referred to in Article 11 (Annex I), list of
polluting substances (Annex II), criteria for determining BAT (Annex III), and public
participation in decision-making (Annex IV).
Annex V outlines the technical provisions relating to combustion plants and recasts
Annexes I to VIII of the LCP Directive.
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Annex VI outlines the technical provisions relating to waste incineration and coincineration plants and recasts Annexes I to VI of the Waste Incineration Directive.

Annex VII (page 162) outlines the technical provisions relating to solvents installations
and recasts Annexes I to III of the VOC Solvents Directive.

Annex VIII outlines the technical provisions relating to installations producing titanium
dioxide and recasts various annexes and articles of the three Titanium Dioxide
Directives.

Annex IX outlines the repealed Directives with their successive amendments and the
time-limits for transposition of these Directives.

Annex X of the proposed Directive provides a Correlation Table showing the relationship
between the various articles and annexes in each of the seven existing Directives with
the proposed Directive.
Main Amendments to the Existing Legislation
The proposed Directive, in revising and merging the seven existing Directives, contains a
number of significant amendments to the existing legislation. Some of these amendments
are outlined below. The background to these amendments, including the reasons for them
and the options considered by the European Commission are explored in the Commission's
Impact Assessment of the proposed Directive. This document is available on the
Commission's website (http://ec.europa.eu/environment/ippc/proposal.htm).
Operators and Permits
The proposed Directive, in Article 4(2), provides that a permit may cover two or more
installations or parts of installations operated by the same operator on the same site or on
different sites.
It defines operator in Article 3(10). In Article 5, it considers that two or more natural or legal
persons may be the joint operator of an installation, or combustion plant, waste incineration
plant, or waste co-incineration plant, or may be the operators of different parts of an
installation or plant. An installation is defined in Article 3(3).
BAT
Articles 14 to 17 of the proposed Directive requires that BAT reference documents are the
reference for setting permit conditions and that emission limit values do not exceed the
emission levels associated with the best available techniques as described in those BAT
reference documents.
Competent authorities will be in a position to grant derogations to allow emission limit values
to exceed the emission levels associated with the best available techniques as described in
the BAT reference documents. However, such derogations will be required to be based on
well defined criteria and should not exceed the emission limit values set out in Chapters III to
VI of the Directive; and such derogations and their justification will be required to be made
available to the public.
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In addition, the proposed Directive, in Article 22, introduces a requirement for permit
conditions to be reconsidered, and where necessary, updated after a new or updated BAT
reference document is adopted in order to take account of developments in the best
available techniques or other changes regarding the operation of an installation. Such a
review and update to be undertaken within 4 years of publication of the BAT reference
document.
Compliance and Reporting Requirements
The proposed Directive lays down more specific provisions to ensure an effective
implementation and enforcement of this Directive and as such in Article 8 it introduces a
requirement for operators to report regularly on compliance with permit conditions to the
competent authority. Member States are also required to ensure that the operator and the
competent authority take necessary measures in a case of non-compliance with this
Directive.
Member States are required in Article 67 to develop and regularly update national
information systems to make available in an electronic format information relating to
emissions, emission limit values and the application of best available techniques.
It is envisaged that the reporting requirements of operators and Member States will tie in
with the EPRTR reporting requirements and arrangements.
Emission Limit Values - Combustion Plants
In Article 33 and Annex V, the proposed Directive sets more stringent emission limit values,
aligned with best available techniques, for certain categories of combustion plants and
pollutants.
Inspections
In Article 25, the proposed Directive introduces a requirement for Member States to provide
a system of environmental inspections and that all installations are covered by an inspection
plan. Such a plan provides for routine and non-routine inspections, as defined in Articles
3(16) and 3(17)
Incentives relating to environmentally-friendly technologies
In Article 3(13), the proposed Directive defines and introduces the term, "emerging
technique" as a novel technique that could provide a higher general level of protection of the
environment or higher cost savings than existing best available techniques. In addition, the
Directive, in Article 16 provides the competent authority with the option to grant temporary
derogations from emission levels associated with the best available techniques as described
in the BAT reference documents to enable an operator to test and use emerging techniques
which might provide for higher level of environmental protection.
Soil Monitoring and Remediation
In Articles 15 and 17, the proposed Directive introduces a new requirement to monitor
periodically the soil and groundwater on the site of the installations in order to ensure that
appropriate information is available to protect these media from contamination by dangerous
substances.
In relation to site closure and remediation, the proposed Directive, in Article 23, requires that
a baseline report, as defined in Article 3(15) is established by operators to provide quantified
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information on the initial state of soil and groundwater contamination. Upon definitive
cessation of activities, the operator is required to remediate the site and return it to that
state. This Article also provides a linkage with the Environmental Liability Directive and the
proposed Soil Protection Directive.
Penalties
In Article 70, the proposed Directive requires Member States to determine penalties
applicable to breaches of the national provisions adopted pursuant to this Directive. Similar
provisions were included in the VOC Solvents, Waste Incineration and the LCP Directives.
IPPC Activities
Annex I of the proposed Directive clarifies the scope of the IPPC activities to be covered
under this Directive. In some cases, the Directive provides a rewording of some activities,
incorporates new thresholds for other activities, and includes additional activities. Some of
the significant amendments are as follows :
- combustion plants between 20 and 50 MW are now included (category 1.1);
- operation of non-ferrous metal foundries producing cast metal products of specified
thresholds are now included (category 2.5(c));
- chemical industry now includes biological processing of substances (category 4);
- production of chemicals for use as fuels or lubricants are now included (category 4.7);
- waste management activities are specifically itemised and now include oil refining or
other reuses of oil; incineration of non-hazardous waste with a capacity exceeding 3
tonnes per hour; disposal or recovery of non-hazardous waste with a capacity exceeding
50 tonnes per day involving biological treatment or physico-chemical treatment; the pretreatment of waste for co-incineration; treatment of slags and ashes; and the treatment of
scrap metal (categories 5.1 to 5.4);
- production of wood based panels (category 6.1(c));
- treatment and processing intended for the production of food products for humans or
animals from a mix of animal and vegetable raw materials with capacity to produce 75
tonnes per day (excludes activities where the raw material is milk only) (category
6.4(b)(iii));
- intensive rearing of poultry or pigs with more than 40,000 places for broilers or 30,000
places for laying hens or 24,000 places for ducks or 11,500 places for turkeys (category
6.6);
- preservation of wood and wood products (category 6.9); and
- off-site treatment of waste water not covered by Directive 91/271/EEC and discharged by
an installation covered by Chapter I (category 6.10).
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Appendix 2
The following list is the full suite of legislation relevant to the transposition of the IPPC Directive
(96/61/EC).
Environmental Protection Agency Act 1992 (No. 7 of 1992)
Protection of the Environment Act 2003 (No. 27 of 2003)
Water Services Act 2007 (No. 30 of 2007)
Waste Management Act 1996 (No. 10 of 1996)
Environmental Protection Agency Act 1992 (Commencement) Order 1993 (S. I. No. 235 of 1993)
Environmental Protection Agency Act 1992 (Commencement) Order 1994 (S. I. No. 82 of 1994
Environmental Protection Agency Act 1992 (Commencement) (No. 2) Order 1994 (S. I. No. 178 of 1994)
Environmental Protection Agency Act 1992 (Commencement) Order 1995 (S. I. No. 57 of 1995)
Environmental Protection Agency Act 1992 (Commencement) (No. 2) Order 1995 (S. I. No. 337 of 1995)
Environmental Protection Agency Act 1992 (Commencement) Order 1996 (S. I. No. 13 of 1996)
Environmental Protection Agency Act 1992 (Commencement) (No. 2) Order 1996 (S. I. No. 77 of 1996)
Protection of the Environment Act 2003 (Commencement) Order 2004 (S. I. No. 393 of 2004)
Protection of the Environment Act 2003 (Commencement) (No. 3) Order 2003 (S. I. No. 498 of 2003)
Protection of the Environment Act 2003 (Commencement) (No. 2) Order 2003 (S. I. No. 413 of 2003)
Protection of the Environment Act 2003 (Commencement) Order 2003 (S. I. No. 393 of 2003)
Waste Management Act 1996 (Commencement) Order 1996 (S. I. No. 192 of 1996)
Environmental Protection Agency (Licensing) Regulations 1994 (S.I. No. 85 of 1994)
Environmental Protection Agency (Licensing) (Amendment) Regulations 1995 (S.I. No. 59 of 1995)
Environmental Protection Agency (Licensing) (Amendment) (No. 2) Regulations 1995 (S.I. No. 76 of
1995)
Environmental Protection Agency (Licensing) (Amendment) Regulations 1996 (S.I. No. 79 of 1996)
Environmental Protection Agency (Licensing) (Amendment) (No. 2) Regulations 1996 (S.I. No. 240 of
1996)
Environmental Protection Agency (Licensing) (Amendment) Regulations 2004 (S.I. No. 394 of 2004)
Waste Management (Licensing) Regulations 1997 (S.I. No. 133 of 1997)
Waste Management (Licensing) (Amendment) Regulations 1998 (S.I. No. 162 of 1998)
Waste Management (Licensing) Regulations 2000 (S.I. No. 185 of 2000)
Waste Management (Licensing) (Amendment) Regulations 2001 (S.I. No. 397 of 2001)
Waste Management (Licensing) (Amendment) Regulations 2002 (S.I. No. 336 of 2002)
European Communities (Amendment of Waste Management (Licensing) Regulations, 2000) Regulations
2002 (S.I. No. 337 of 2002)
Waste Management (Licensing) Regulations 2004 (S.I. No. 395 of 2004)
Water Services Act 2007 (Commencement) Order 2007 (S.I. No. 846 of 2007)
European Communities (Greenhouse Gas Emissions Trading) (Amendment) Regulations 2005 (S.I. No.
706 of 2005)
European Communities (Greenhouse Gas Emissions Trading) Regulations 2004 (S.I. No. 437 of 2004)
European Communities (European Pollutant Release and Transfer Register) Regulations 2007 (S.I. No.
123 of 2007)
Water Services Act 2007 (Commencement) Order 2007 (S.I. No. 846 of 2007)
Screening RIA - Proposed Directive on Industrial Emissions (version 1)
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