5. Our advice

5.1 Study odour problems carefully

If the procedure for opening your plant requires you to draw up an impact study (ICPE subject to authorization), we recommend that you take a serious look at the odor issue, if this is a significant impact of your project. In the event of a dispute, the judge will check the content of the impact study in detail. This control can lead to the annulment of an authorization issued on the basis of an impact study considered insufficient.

Example of a decision: "Considering, secondly, that the impact study, as part of the inventory of possible nuisances, with regard to odors, mentions the incorporation of a product in pig feed that enables an 80% reduction in hydrogen sulfide content and a 65% reduction in ammonia content, mentions,...