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Title: Integrated Pollution Prevention and Control


1
Integrated Pollution Prevention and Control
  • University College Northampton

2
Topic Overview
  • This training package covers
  • The introduction and implementation of IPPC
  • How it affects UK Industry
  • The responsibilities for Industry and the
    Regulator
  • How it is monitored and maintained

3
What is Integrated Pollution and Prevention
Control
  • Commonly referred to as IPPC
  • Sets out to apply an integrated environmental
    approach to the regulation of certain industrial
    activities
  • Replaced Integrated Pollution Control IPC
  • IPPC regulates major industrial installations
    formally covered by IPC and has expanded its
    activities to include smaller industrial
    installations

4
What is its purpose
  • Its primary purpose is to prevent or reduce
    emissions to the air, water and land from
    potentially polluting industrial processes which
    cover
  • Energy industries
  • Production and processing of metals
  • Mineral industry
  • Chemical industry
  • Waste management Industry
  • Other activities

5
Setting the legal framework
  • The regulations implement the European Community
    (EC) Directive 96/61/EC on integrated Pollution
    Prevention and Control
  • The Department for Environment, Food and Rural
    Affairs (DEFRA) is responsible for implementation
    of the directive by proposing the required
    changes to UK legislation
  • The Secretary of State can issue specific
    statutory guidance to regulators if seen to be
    necessary

6
When did it come into force
  • Oct. 1996 Directive enters into force in the UK
  • Oct. 1999 brought into effect in the UK
  • Oct. 2002 Annual reporting of industrial releases
    to the European Commission commences
  • Oct. 2007 All existing installations will require
    IPPC permits

7
General requirements
  • To prevent pollution
  • Minimise waste
  • Conserve energy
  • Prevent accidents
  • Clean up of site when activity stops

8
How these general requirements are determined
  • These requirements are determined by applying the
    principal of Best Available Technique (BAT)
  • BAT should be used in taking all appropriate
    measures against pollution
  • It requires the identification of BAT for the
    whole installation rather than for individual
    activities within that installation

9
Implementation
  • DEFRA is responsible for the implementation of
    the directive
  • The manner of implementation is usually decided
    after consultation with other government
    departments
  • DEFRA will designate regulating authorities to
    ensure compliance, carry out inspections and take
    any enforcement action deemed necessary

10
How it is regulated
  • The procedure starts with the preparation of an
    application for a permit by the operator
  • Details of the application should be made
    available and public representations should be
    encouraged
  • The regulator will then determine the
    application, either granting a permit with
    conditions or refusing it

11
Operating conditions
  • Operator must be a fit and proper person and be
    able to maintain -
  • Satisfactory environmental management
  • Adequate compliance monitoring
  • Assessment of polluting releases
  • Compliance with quality standards
  • Energy efficiency and waste minimisation
  • Prevention of accidents

12
Other important factors
  • The regulator should place any application on the
    public register before it can be accepted
  • Any application should take into consideration
    local environmental conditions
  • An assessment of any environmental effects of
    proposed installation should be taken into account

13
How it is financed
  • Regulators have to recover the costs of their
    IPPC operations from permit holders
  • Charges will vary across installations and
    sectors to fairly reflect the degree of
    compliance
  • The regulator must receive these charges before
    any application will be considered

14
How it is maintained and monitored
  • Permits are reviewed on a regular basis
  • The operator has significant responsibility for
    monitoring under IPPC
  • Once an operator has a permit it must advise the
    regulator whenever it proposes a change in the
    operation of the installation
  • Regulators are required to maintain registers
    containing all the installations they are
    responsible for

15
Checking and enforcing compliance
  • The regulations allow the regulator to serve an
    enforcement notice
  • If the operation of an installation involves
    imminent risk of serious pollution the regulator
    can serve a suspension notice
  • The regulator can at any time revoke a permit, in
    whole or in part by serving a revocation notice
  • If an operator has committed a criminal offence
    the regulators can consider prosecution

16
Summary
  • IPPC sets out to achieve
  • a high level of protection of the environment
    taken as a whole by, in particular, preventing
    or, where that is not practicable, reducing
    emissions into the air, water and land
    (Regulation 8 (2) - (3) ).
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