Permitting procedures: IPPC, experiences with public participationNGOs

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Permitting procedures IPPC, experien-ces with
public participation/NGOs

• Basis
• Directive 96/61/ECconcerning integrated
  pollution prevention and control IPPC Directive

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Permitting procedures IPPC, experien-ces with
public participation/NGOs

• Subjects of the IPPC directive
• general principles governing the basis
  obligations of the operator
• rules for the permitting procedures for new and
  existing installations
• integrated approach to issuing permits
• use of the best available techniques

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Permitting procedures IPPC, experien-ces with
public participation/NGOs

• Subjects of the IPPC directive
• compliance with permit conditions
• access to information and public participation in
  the permit procedure
• exchange of information between the member states

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Permitting procedures IPPC, experien-ces with
public participation/NGOs

• Exchange of information (Art. 16)
• Result BREF Notes ( reference document on the
  best available techniques)
• complicated coordination process between the
  memberstates, national authorities, NGOs and
  industrial representatives

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Permitting procedures IPPC, experien-ces with
public participation/NGOs

• Exchange of information
• coordination process takes about 2 years or more
• BREF Notes are thick reference books (waste
  incineration 500 pages), source
  http//eippcb.jrc.es
• til now BREF Notes for 32 sectors

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Permitting procedures IPPC, experien-ces with
public participation/NGOs

• Permitting procedures
• IPPC directive is enclosed in the German Federal
  Immission Protection Law and the appropriate
  ordinances
• explanation by means of a procedure for a biomass
  incineration plant with public participation and
  environmental impact assessment

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Permitting procedures IPPC, experien-ces with
public participation/NGOs

• Steps in permitting procedures(1)
• project-planning by operatorit is useful to
  participate the authorities in this stage to save
  time and costs

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Permitting procedures IPPC, experien-ces with
public participation/NGOs

• Steps in permitting procedures (2)
• applications for permits (Art. 6)following
  documents are necessarydescription of
• installation and its activities
• the raw and auxiliary materials, other substances
  and the energy used in or generated by the
  installation

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Permitting procedures IPPC, experien-ces with
public participation/NGOs

• the sources of emissions from the installation
• the conditions of the site of the installation
• the nature and quantities of forseeable emissions
  from the installation into each medium as well as
  identification of significant effects of the
  emission on the environment

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Permitting procedures IPPC, experien-ces with
public participation/NGOs

• the proposed technology and other techniques for
  preventing or, where it is not possible, reducing
  emissions from the situation
• where necessary, measures for prevention and
  recovery of waste generated by the installation

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Permitting procedures IPPC, experien-ces with
public participation/NGOs

• further measures planned to comply with the
  general principles of the basic obligations of
  the operator
• measures planned to monitor emissions into the
  environment

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Permitting procedures IPPC, experien-ces with
public participation/NGOs

• non-technical summary of the application
• description of the preload situation of the site
• in Germany we use a form, prescribed by the
  authorities. The operator has to add plans,
  drawings and technical descriptions

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Permitting procedures IPPC, experien-ces with
public participation/NGOs

• Steps in permitting procedures (3)
• decision/granting the permitcontent
• conditions of the permit including emission limit
  values, requirements ensuring protection of the
  soil and the water, measures concerning the
  management of waste, use of the best available
  techniques

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Permitting procedures IPPC, experien-ces with
public participation/NGOs

• Steps in permitting procedures (4)
• Decision/granting the permitcontent, in Germany
  we also add
• environmental impact assessment
• reasons for the decision with legal basis
• the possibility to enter an objection

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Permitting procedures IPPC, experien-ces with
public participation/NGOs

• Rules of the public participation in permit
  procedure (1)
• IPPC direcive, Art. 15applications for permit
  and the decision are made available for the
  public

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Permitting procedures IPPC, experien-ces with
public participation/NGOs

• Rules of the public participation in permit
  procedure (2) in Germany its accomplished
  through
• participation of the competent authorities and
  the official accredited associations to find the
  volume of investigation before

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Permitting procedures IPPC, experien-ces with
public participation/NGOs

• Rules of the public participation in permit
  procedure (3)
• public information about the application for
  permit with a press advertisement, possibility to
  take insight and to give objections

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Permitting procedures IPPC, experien-ces with
public participation/NGOs

• rules of the public participation in permit
  procedure (4)
• public argument of the objections

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Permitting procedures IPPC, experien-ces with
public participation/NGOs

• Rules of the public participation in permit
  procedure (5)
• public information about the decision/permit with
  a press advertisement, possibility to take
  insight and to enter an objection

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Permitting procedures IPPC, experien-ces with
public participation/NGOs

• Experiences with public participation
• good information for the public
• high level of transparency
• helps to have better acceptance, an provide
  better confidence

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Permitting procedures IPPC, experien-ces with
public participation/NGOs

• Experiences with public participation
• good skilled employees
• efficient employment
• helps to cause a fast permitting procedure and a
  safe permit