Experience with an introduction of IPPC Directive in an AC IMPEL member country

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Experience with an introduction of IPPC Directive
in an AC IMPEL member country

• Czech Republic
• Czech Enviromental Inspectorate

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European CommunityCouncil Directive 96/61/EC on
IPPC24. 9. 1996

• Czech Republic
• Act No. 76/2002 Coll. on IPPC
• 1. 3. 2002

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Act on IPPC in the CR - 1. January 2003
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Act on IPPC in the CR - 1. January 2003

• Installations in operation 30. October 2007
• New installations 1. March 2003
• Integrated pollution register IPR
• Agency of integrated prevention AIP
• changes in 10 Czech Acts

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35 days

• What has been achieved so far?
• applications and simulation decisions are ready
• BREF translations
• Agency of Integrated prevention
• What is missing?
• implementing law regulations
• the list of authorized persons
• people and financial sources in regions

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IPPC

• application of Best Available Techniques /BAT/
• integrated permitting /in contradiction to
  sectoral permitting/
• public access to information

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System for Exchange of Information

• EU
• EC DG XI.
• Forum
• European IPPC Office
• Technical Working Groups

• CR
• MoE
• Czech IPPC Forum
• Czech IPPC Office
• Czech Working Group

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Institutions of Czech exchange system

• The National IPPC Forum
• The National IPPC Office
• National Working Groups

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Institutions of state administration

• Ministry of Environment
• Ministry of Industry and Trade
• Ministry of Agriculture
• Ministry of Health
• Regions
• Czech Environmental Inspectorate
• Regional Hygiene Officer

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Procedure on granting an integrated permit

• EIA
• receiving of the application
• to check all prescribed requirements
• disclosure of the application to the public
• statement of participation of other authorities
• discussing the objections
• final decision on the application

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Permitting procedure- Preparing an application
of the integrated permit from a company

• Summary of environmental aspects
• Selection of important aspects and setting the
  final values of indicators
• Analysis of production processes from the point
  of view of raw material and energy flows
• Draft of possible solutions to prevent the
  origins of waste production and the sources
  pollution (BAT)
• Evaluation of possibilities and suggestion of
  integrated solution in production technologies
• Draft of end technologies in a case of prevention
  of the sources pollution wasnt achieved
• Draft of the whole solution and the description
  of the emission monitoring

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Permitting Procedure- Granting the Integrated
permit

• The company submits the application
• Disclosure of information about submission of the
  application
• Evaluation of the suggested measures
• Preparation of decision and discussion with the
  operator of the installation about permission
  requirements and about the best solution
• Disclose the decision draft
• Comments from the public
• Granting the integrated permit, which includes
  justification of public comments

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Operating the installation

• monitoring and reporting
• controls and disclosure of monitoring results
• renewal of the integrated permit

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Basic obligations of the operator of an
installation

• to operate the installation in accordance with
  the integrated permit
• to notify the Authority of a planned change in
  the installation
• to cooperate with the relevant administrative
  authorities in controlling compliance with the
  conditions of the integrated permit
• to notify the Authority without delay of all
  unusual situations, accidents at the installation
  and accidental releases of pollutants from the
  installation into the environment
• keep records of information on compliance with
  the binding conditions for operation of the
  integrated permit
• The operator of an installation must not operate
  the installation without an integrated permit

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The Czech Environmental Inspectorate

• inspect compliance with obligations laid down by
  this Act or the integrated permit
• limit or stop the operation of an installation or
  its part, if its further operation would cause or
  could cause serious environmental damage or
  considerable material damage
• impose fines
• submit to the Region the results of a completed
  control, if this control reveals breach of
  obligations for which the Region imposes fines
• evaluate applications of the best available
  techniques and submit
• information on trends therein to the relevant
  administrative authorities
• not participate on the procedure on granting an
  Integrated Permit
• not perceive as an affected body of state
  administration.

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Ministry of the Environment

• execute supreme state supervision and shall be
  the central body of state administration
• make decisions on applications for integrated
  permit for installations whose operations could
  significantly detrimentally affect the
  environment of an affected state
• within its competence, evaluate the application
  of the best available techniques
• submit the results of the evaluation of the best
  available techniques application to the
  administrative authorities and the relevant
  bodies of the European Communities
• establish and maintain the integrated pollution
  register
• provide methodical support in the area specified
  by this Act
• fulfil tasks following from the relation to the
  European Communities in the area specified by
  this Act

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Ministry of Industry and Trade

• shall, within its competence, evaluate
  application of the best available techniques
• 1.Energy industries
• 2.Production and processing of metals
• 3.Processing of minerals
• 4.Chemical industry
• 6.1.Industrial plants for production
• 6.2.Plants for the pre-treatment or dyeing of
  fibres or textiles
• 6.3.Plants for tanning of hides and skins
• 6.7.Installations for the surface treatment of
  substances, objects or products using organic
  solvents
• 6.8.Installations for the carbon production or
  electrographite by means of incineration or
  graphitization
• shall ensure the system for exchange of
  information on the best
  available techniques

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Ministry of Agriculture

• shall, within its competence, evaluate
  application of the best available techniques
• ? 6.4 a) Slaughterhouses with a car case
  production capacity greater than 50
  
• tonnes per day
• b) Treatment and processing installations
  intended for the production of food or feed
  products
• c) Treatment and processing installations for
  milk with received quantity of milk exceeding 200
  tonnes per day
• 6.5. Installations for the disposal or recycling
  of animal car cases and animal waste with a
  treatment capacity exceeding 10 tonnes per day
• 6.6. Installations for intensive rearing of
  poultry or pigs

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Regions

• make decisions on application for an integrated
  permit with the exception of installations whose
  operation could significantly detrimentally
  affect environment of an affected state - these
  decisions makes the MoE
• carry out control of an integrated permit or
  operation of an installation
• impose fines request the operator of an
  installation to submit an application for
  granting an integrated permit
• evaluate application of the best available
  techniques and submit information on their
  development to the relevant administrative
  authorities

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Regional Hygiene Officer

• in procedures on granting an integrated permit,
  the officer shall lay down the binding conditions
  for operation of a source of noise or vibrations
  if the hygiene limits cannot be met
• from the standpoint of protection of the public
  health, the officer shall check the integrated
  permit or operation of the installation
• the hygiene officer shall limit or terminate the
  operation of an installation or its part, if
  further its operation would or could cause
  serious damage to human health
• the officer shall impose fines

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Participants in the Procedure

• the operator of the installation
• the municipality, in whose territory the
  installation is or is to be located
• the region, in whose territory the installation
  is or to be located
• - civic associations
• public benefit societies
• federations of employers or chamber of commerce
• municipalities

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Participation of the Authorized person

• statement on application
• by other Authorised person
• by the Agency of Integrated Prevention
• within 5 days
• within 75 days
• disclosure for a period of 30 days

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Oral Discussion of the Application

• Decision on the Application
• - within 45 days
• - prolongation 45 days

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Application for granting an Integrated Permit

• identification of operator of an installation
• description of the installation and related
  activities
• description of raw materials and preparations,
  related materials and energy
• emission sources from the installation
• characterization of the place where the
  installation should be located
• description of emissions amount from the
  installation in water, air, soil
• description of technologies which prevent the
  emission formation and reduce them
• description of measures that prevent waste
  production or serve to the use of waste produced
  by installation
• localization and types of emission monitoring is
  needed
• characterization of measuring instruments
• supplements

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Pilot project system

• ? preparation of Regions for the Integrated
  Permit granting according to the IPPC directive
  requirements
• ? to prepare workshops for the clerks from the
  Regions who are responsible for issuing permits
• ? to create a flexible system of BREF documents
  and other BAT sources
• ? to support MoE in establishing and of to
  educate personal about related issues
• ? to support the Czech working group in
  monitoring
• ? to prepare documents

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Institutional strengthening of the Czech
Environmental Inspectorate Implementation of
the IPPC Directive
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Institucional strengthening of the Czech
Environmental Inspectorate Implementation of
the IPPC Directive

• Introduction of permitting according to the
  EU-IPPC Directive in selected pilot metal
  foundries in the Czech republic
• Institutional strengthening of the Czech
  Environmental Inspectorate /CEI/
• Improvement of smog monitoring and control in
  the surroundings of 2 metallurgical companies in
  Ostrava

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Institucional strengthening of the Czech
Environmental Inspectorate Implementation of
the IPPC Directive

• Outputs
• an agreement between the Czech government and the
  Czech foundry sector on a future emissions value
  framework
• a Company Environmental Plan /CEP/ for the
  selected pilot foundries
• demonstration permits
• a database and documentation centre on clean
  technology and BAT in the foundry sector
• 2 seminars on IPPC, BAT, self/regulation and
  integration
• a work plan for the CEI regarding implementation
  of IPPC
• a seminar on clean production
• 3 study visits of stakeholders to meet colleague
  organisations in the Netherlands
• installation of additional hardware and software
  to improve smog monitoring

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Institucional strengthening of the Czech
Environmental Inspectorate Implementation of
the IPPC Directive

• project manager - DHV in the Netherlands
• deputy project manager - DHV CR
• air quality management expert - DHV in the
  Netherlands
• environmental expert - DHV CR
• Environmental Department of Dutch environmental
  permitting body
• Dutch steel mill
• The Netherlands Environmental Inspectorate

• Czech Environmental Inspectorate
• Ministry of Environment
• Ministry of Industry and Trade
• Ministry of Regional Development
• selected pilot foundries
• Czech Foundry Union
• steel mills involved
• NGOs STUZ

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Institucional strengthening of the Czech
Environmental Inspectorate Implementation of
the IPPC Directive

• smog monitoring equipment track
• permitting track
• application format
• preparation of application
• IPPC permit
• study visit to the Netherlands
• Dutch Foundry Union
• permitting authorities
• Environmental inspectorate
• companies

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The pilot IPPC project in paper industry
enterprise (paper mill)

• Simulation Game 2000 2001
• The Frantschach Pulp Paper, a.s.
• Sweden 1969

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The pilot IPPC project in paper industry
enterprise (paper mill)

• Environmental Management System
• EN ISO 14001
• to increase using of renewable energy sources
• to reduce the water consumption
• to reduce the waste water burden
• to limit the origins of underground water
  contamination
• to meet the emission limits for air and water

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The pilot IPPC project in paper industry
enterprise (paper mill)

• VIII/2000 Elaborating the integrated permit
  application form
• IX X/2000 Elaborating and handing in the
  Frantschach's integrated permit application
• 8. 9. 11. 2000 Discussing the application
• 8. 12. 2000 Written comments of the authorities
  on the completed application
• 15. 2. 2001 Elaborating the standpoints of the
  authorities, NGOs and the public on the completed
  application
• 20. - 22. 3. 2001 Public hearing

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The pilot IPPC project in paper industry
enterprise (paper mill)

• Ministry of Environment
• Czech Environmental Inspectorate
• District Hygiene Station
• District Office
• Municipal Office
• Centre For a Cleaner Production
• Society for Sustainable Living
• Swedish Agency For Environment
• Swedish Environmental Court

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The pilot IPPC project in paper industry
enterprise (paper mill)

• BAT - 90
• public hearing on the application
• process of integrated permit granting
• administrative management
• ? applicants
• ? permit granting authorities

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The Chicken Farming

• 6.6. Installation for the intensive rearing of
  poultry or pigs with more than 40 000 places for
  poultry
• Capacity 609 000 places
• The model discussion of the application
• Integrated permit 31 . March 2003

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The Chicken Farming

• Czech Inspection of Environment
• Regional Hygienic Officer
• NGOs - Children of the Earth
• vets
• relevant administrative authorities
• comments
• problem - Integrated Permit
• more operators
• one operator

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internet

• IPPC
• http//www.env.cz
• http//www.cizp.cz
• http//www.ceu.cz
• http//www.ceu.cz/IPPC/Podniky/Default.htm
• http//www.ceu.cz/IPPC/Podniky/Formular.htm

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THANK YOU

• for your attention

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IPPC Installations in the Czech Republic