Berlin, Joint -Meeting, 28. Sept. 2012

Helmut Döhler

IPPC / IED Directive and Seville-Process

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• Introduction

• Air Pollution control regulations and agreements at EU and UN level

• EU Regulations on the Integrated environmental protection

• Further development of the air pollution control regulations

• Summary and outlook

The relevant regulations on air pollution control

Legal area /scope Legislation

Air pollution control

UN/ECE protocol to the convention on longrange transboundary air pollution to abate acidification, eutrophication and ground-level ozone - Gothenborg-Multicomponent –Protocol (UN/ECE 1999)

EU-directive on national emission ceilings - NEC-Directive (EU 2001)

EU-Directive on ambient air quality and cleaner air for Europe - Air qualitäty -Directive (EU 2008 a)

Environm. pollution, risk –management

EU-Directive on integrated pollution prevention and control - IPPC-Directive (EU 2008

now: Directive on Industrial Emissions (EU 2010)

to be expected …..

• Air Pollution control regulations and agreements at EU and UN level

• EU Regulations on the Integrated environmental protection

• Further development of the air pollution control regulations

• Summary and outlook

The Directive on industrial emissions 2010/75/EU (IED) was adopted on 24 November 2010 and published in the Official Journal on 17 December 2010

It entered into force on 6 January 2011 and has to be transposed into national legislation by Member States by 7 January 2013.

The IED replaces the IPPC Directive and the sectoral directives…………

EU-Directive on integrated pollution prevention and control - IPPC-Directive / Directive on indiustrial emissions 2010/75/EU

Target: integrated prevention and reduction of emissions in air, soil and water in order to achieve a high level of protection for the environment in total = cross media approach

Requirements for permission and operation of facilities

public permission process

Prevention by implementation of “best available techniques“ (BAT)

EU-uniform Definition of the BAT necessary ( BREF „Intensive Livestock Farming 2003)

Affected: Installations for the intensive rearing of poultry and pigs 40.000 poultry places, 2.000 fattening pig places (> 30 kg), 750 Sow places

To be proved: - by 2011: Differentiating poultry categories, „mixed livestock enterprises“

- by 2012: Involvem. of intensive cattle rearing, application of manures

EU-Directive on integrated pollution prevention and control - IPPC-Directive / Directive on indiustrial emissions 2010/75/EU

EU-Directive on integrated pollution prevention and control - IPPC-Directive / Directive on indiustrial emissions 2010/75/EU

Preconditions for Operation of Livestock Installations

• Permission (public permitting process) is needed for – operation, – substantial change in operation and extension of intensive

livestock installations

• Basic obligations for operation– to prevent pollution

application of ´Best Available Techniques´ (BAT)– to prevent accidents and limit their consequences– not to cause significant pollution– to prevent or minimise waste production– to reuse waste– to use energy efficiently

Criteria for the Determination of ‘Best Available Technology (BAT)´

• Best techniques– low emissions to – air NH3, odour, N2O, CH4, dust, noise, ...– soil and water no leakage, leakage control, tight construction

– efficient use of – energy for ventilation, heating, technical equipment and– raw materials feeding stuff, bedding materials, cleaning and

drinking water– amount and quality of manure and waste– animal welfare

• Available techniques– technical and economical application possible

• Techniques– design, construction, maintenance and operation

'management’ or ‘good agricultural practise’

EU-Commission, DG Environment

Euopean IPPC-Bureau, Sevilla

Technical Working Group (TWG) “Intensive Livestock

Farming”(Experts: Environment

Agriculture, NGOs) collecting Information Assessment concept BAT- Candidate list Draft of BAT-Referenzdocument

BAT Reference Document (BREF)

Information exchange Art. 16(2) IPPC

Organisation of the „BAT-Work“

national coordination

KTBLnational proposal

for BAT

KTBL-internal project group

KTBL-Expert group with 20 national

experts

BREF-Intensivtierhaltung (2003)

BAT Reference Documents (BREFs)

• Contents of BREF-Documents– General Information

structure, economics, legislation– Applied Processes and Techniques (overview)

housing, manure storing and treatment, application to land consumption and emission levels, environmental effects, cross-media effects

– Best Available Techniques (BAT) working principle system-specific parameters consumption and emission levels animal welfare productivity data applicability/functional safety/practical experiences References

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• Revision of BREF-Documents

– BREF on Intensive rearing of pigs and poultry: from 6/2009 – 2011 – Deadline extended to end of 2013– First draft spread around in July 2011 more than 2000 comments, still

200 comments open – Second draft to expected by March 2013

• Amendment of the Directive – stricter application of the IPPC requirements in the member states– More weight will be given to the BREF in order to give less space for

diverging from the BAT requirements in the awarding of permits – Encouraging the application of cost efficient measures: low-protein

feeding, low emission spreading of manures

EU-Directive on integrated pollution prevention and control - IPPC-Directive / Directive on indiustrial emissions 2010/75/EU

Outlook

to be expected …..

• Introduction

• Air Pollution control regulations and agreements at EU and UN level

• EU Regulations on the Integrated environmental protection

• Further development of the air pollution control regulations

• Summary and outlook

Summary and Outlook • The international agreements and European directives for air pollution control and for

integrated environmental protection will in future further raise the environmental protection standards in farm animal production…

• ….whereby the aspects of the animal protection, animal welfare and work safety will have to be increasingly taken account of.

• In this respect ammonia occupies a key position because it not only causes direct eutrophication and acidification in the environment but also has an indirect effect through secondary aerosol formation to fine dust pollution.

• Greenhouse gases will be playing an significant role, mitigation options however are limited

• Therefore before 2020 there will be further emission reduction requirements for ammonia and fine dust (PM2.5).

• Within the framework of agricultural and environment policies (BAT Process, NEC Directive, climate protection) the international standardisation of verification procedures for the certification of environmentally friendly technologies in the livestock sector will have great importance in their development and application.