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ABSTRACT
The aim of the Industrial Emission Directive - IED - is to achieve significant benefits for the environment and human health by reducing harmful industrial emissions across the EU, in particular through better application of Best Available Techniques. The directive strengthens the use of the BREFs “Best available techniques reference documents” to assess the performance of their techniques. Operators must thus assess the performance of their installations on the performance of the BAT. For this purpose, work on BAT assessment has been carried out for installation assessment to comply with permit requirements and its update, and for processes to assess technical performance to validate them as BAT.
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Valérie LAFOREST: Research Director - Doctorate in waste science and technology - Head of the Environmental and Organizational Engineering Department – Mines Saint-Étienne – Groupe IMT, Institut Henri Fayol, UMR CNRS 5600 Environnement, ville et société, Saint-Étienne, France
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Rodolphe GAUCHER: Head of Clean Technologies and Circular Economy Unit – Ineris, Verneuil-en-Halatte, France
INTRODUCTION
European Directive 96/61/EC on Integrated Pollution Prevention and Control (IPPC) was adopted to regulate emissions from industrial installations and achieve a high level of protection for the environment as a whole in the European Union, based in particular on the concept of Best Available Techniques (BAT). Some 15 years later, the Industrial Emissions Directive 2010/75/EU (known as "IED") succeeded the IPPC Directive, reaffirming and even reinforcing its founding principles.
After a review of the history and positioning of these directives, the objectives and requirements of the IED Directive will be discussed, focusing on its objectives, scope, main requirements, transposition into French law and the consequences of this transposition. Next, the concept of Best Available Techniques (BAT) will be presented, with particular reference to the preparation of BAT reference documents (BREFs). Finally, with the aim of aiding the understanding, appropriation and implementation of BAT, methods for assessing the environmental performance of BAT will be presented, to support decision-makers (such as industrialists) in implementing the requirements of the IED Directive.
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KEYWORDS
Regulation | environment | industrial emissions | best available techniques | Industrial activities | Installations Classified for the Protection of the Environment
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