Industrial farms need proper implementation of the EU IPPC Directive to reduce the nutrient pollutio

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Industrial farms need proper implementation of
the EU IPPC Directive to reduce the nutrient
pollution load

• Aleksandra Antonowicz
• Green Federation GAJA/CCB
• BSPC Working Group on Eutrophication
• 14.08.2006 - 15.08.2006

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Industrial farming versus eutrophication

• Main source of nitrogen and phosphorus in the
  Baltic
• (about 50)
• is agricultural discharge via rivers derived
  from
• soil cultivation
• use of fertilisers
• 
  storing and spreading manure
  
• intensive
  and uncontrolled
• 
  agriculture
• Baltic Sea GIWA Regional assesment 17, 2005

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Regulations aimed at prevention of
eutrophication connected with agriculture

• Annex III to Helsinki Convention 1992
• EU Directive Concerning the Production of Water
  Against Pollution Caused by Nitrates from
  Agricultural Sources
• The Directive on Integrated Pollution Prevention
  and Control

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IPPC Directive

• The purpose of IPPC Directive is to minimise
• pollution from industrial sources throughout the
• EU.
• IPPC Directive provides an integrated approach to
  establish pollution prevention from stationary
  installations listed in its Annex I, which are
  among others
• installations for the intensive rearing of pigs
  with more than 2 000 places for production pigs
  (over 30 kg), or 750 places for sows

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IPPC tool - integrated permit

• The permit must take into account the whole
  environmental performance of the plant, covering
  e.g. emissions to air, water and land, generation
  of waste, use of raw materials, energy
  efficiency, noise, prevention of accidents, and
  restoration of the site upon closure
• Operators must ensure that they will use "best
  available techniques" (BAT) to prevent or reduce
  pollution

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Fertilization is a part of installation

• IPPC INSTALLATION
• stationary technical unit where one or more
  activities listed in Annex I are carried out, and
  any other directly associated activities, which
  have a technical connection with the activities
  carried out on that site and which could have an
  effect on emissions and pollution

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Implementation of IPPC Directive Polish example

• - Polish agricultural policy is significant
  for the condition of the Baltic Sea because of
  the geografical situation
• - in Poland we managed to identify 103 IPPC
  hog rearing farms

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Full compliance with the Directiveis achieved

• not only by
• transposition
• into the law and issuing the permits
• but also by
• fulfilling by installations obligations arised
  from the permits

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Fertilization proccess should be treated as a
part of installation activities and regulated in
integrated permit.

• Liquid manure poured out on the fields
• North west of Poland
• 2005

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Installation should be determined by the impact
on the environment and not by the ownership.

• Polish definition of installation
• Installation-
• A)stationary technical unit
• B)set of technical units technologically
  connected, placed on the area of one plant and
  legally possessed by one subject
• C)structures being neither technical units nor
  their complexes
• Environmental Protection Act, art. 3, p. 6

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Following BAT is obligatory for installation
operator

• Members States shall take the necessary measures
  to provide that the
• competent authorities ensure that installations
  are operated in such
• way that
• all the appropriate preventive measures are taken
  against pollution, in particular through
  application of the best available techniques
  ()
• Article 3 of the Directive
• Poland does not have BAT for industrial farming.

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Control of the IPPC installations
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The message to Parliamentarians !

• To secure the limitation of the agri run-off of
  nutrients to the Baltic Sea Parliamentarians can
  take initiatives to review the PROPER
  implementation of the EU IPPC Directive when it
  comes to industrial farms

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Message to Parliamentarians !

• You can be a leading group for ensuring that your
  country properly implements IPPC Directive
• !the infringement procedure!

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Thank you for your attention!