The successive amendments and corrections to Directive 2008\/1\/EC have been incorporated into the basic text. This consolidated version is for information only.<\/p>\n
Proposal of 21 December 2007 for a Directive of the European Parliament and of the Council on industrial emissions (integrated pollution prevention and control) (recast version) [COM(2007) 844 – Not published in the Official Journal].
\nThe aim of this proposal is to revise and merge into a single legal text seven separate Directives relating to industrial emissions: Directives 78\/176\/EEC, 82\/883\/EEC and 92\/112\/EEC on waste and discards from the titanium dioxide industry, Directive 96\/61\/EC (replaced by Directive 2008\/1\/EC concerning integrated pollution prevention and control – the IPPC Directive), Directive 1999\/13\/EC on volatile organic compounds, Directive 2000\/76\/EC on the incineration of waste and Directive 2001\/80\/EC on pollutants emitted by large combustion plants. This integrated approach to issuing permits to industrial installations should allow major progress to be made in the field of atmospheric pollution. The central element of this approach is the implementation of Best Available Techniques (BAT).
\nCodecision procedure (COD\/2007\/0286)<\/p>\n
Communication of 21 December 2007 from the Commission to the Council, the European Parliament, the European Economic and Social Committee and the Committee of the Regions: \u201cTowards an improved policy on industrial emissions\u201d [COM(2007) 843 final – Not published in the Official Journal].
\nThe Commission notes that, as of 30 October 2007, the IPPC Directive, which covers some 52 000 installations, has not been fully implemented. In order to improve Community industrial emissions policy, the Commission proposes revising existing legislation, particularly by recasting the existing legislation in a single Directive on industrial emissions, by improving and clarifying the concept of \u201cbest available techniques\u201d, by strengthening permit, monitoring and inspection measures, and by extending the scope of the IPPC Directive for certain sectors and making it more specific.<\/p>\n
The Commission also formulates an action plan for 2008-2010 to improve the implementation of existing legislation. Under this plan, the Commission will ensure that the legislation on industrial emissions is fully transposed and will assist Member States in cutting unnecessary administrative burdens and in implementing legislation. It will also improve the monitoring of the enforcement of legislation and compliance checking, as well as improving the collection of data on best available techniques, and will create stronger links with the Research Framework Programme.
\nFinally, the Commission discusses the possibility of using flexible instruments such as an emission trading scheme for NOx and SO2.
\nThe benefits of this system are significant. These new measures should lead to net environmental benefits of 7-28 billion per annum for large combustion plants alone, and to a net reduction in administrative burden of 105-225 million per annum.<\/p>\n\n
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