Amendment of Pollution Reduction Programme

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Amendment of Pollution Reduction Programme

• Administrative measures on
• Monitoring, Revision of DS list, EQSs, Emission
  Limits, Derogation

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Amendment of Pollution Reduction Programme

• Set up of a specific monitoring of dangerous
  substances (relevant and potentially relevant) to
  explore actual concentrations and trends
• (network, frequency, competent authorities)

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Amendment of Pollution Reduction Programme

• Periodical revision of the list of relevant and
  potentially relevant substances (5 years).
• Accounting of
• results of DS monitoring
• establishment of new EQSs or their revision
• recent statistics of market/production of DS
• The list of relevant and potentially relevant
  substances will likely be updated to current
  status

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Amendment of Pollution Reduction Programme

• Technical Committee appointed to
• Propose the 17 missing EQSs of relevant DS,
  according to the procedure stated by WFD (Annex
  V, point 1.2.6)
• Proposal of provisional EQSs, defined according
  to expert judgement, when data for the procedure
  required by WFD are lacking
• Periodical re-examination of the list of DS as of
  point 2, above

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Amendment of Pollution Reduction Programme

• Design of a national Data Base for dangerous
  pollutants and toxicological and ecotoxicological
  data

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• Chapter 6.2.1 of PRP Calculation of Limit
  Pollution Values
• The formula for the calculation of emission
  limits should be given for transparency

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Amendment of Pollution Reduction Programme
Maximum allowable load of the substance at a
point discharge (mass/time)
River flow rate at the discharge point
Discharge flow rate
Number of discharges of the same DS in the same
water basin
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Amendment of Pollution Reduction Programme

• Possibility to give derogation.
• The set up of EQS-based emission limits will
  result in three different pictures
• Industrial sites with no need of reducing their
  current emission (no need of derogation)
• Industrial sites with a discharge of the same
  order of magnitude of our predicted safe
  emission limits (possible need of derogation)
• Industrial sites that cannot to comply with the
  DS emission (need of derogation)

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Amendment of Pollution Reduction Programme

• Possibility to give derogation.
• Industrial sites with a discharge of the same
  order of magnitude of our predicted safe
  emission limits
• That means
• some plants able to improve their process up to
  full compliance,
• others in the need to get some kind of support
  for technical improvement

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Amendment of Pollution Reduction Programme

• Possibility to give derogation.
• Industrial sites that cannot comply with the DS
  emission due to extremely low EQS and/or small
  recipients and/or STRONG technical limits
• Derogation could be avoided only by
• Diversion of the outlet to greater recipients
• Revision of the specific EQSs
• End of the process responsible for emission

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Amendment of Pollution Reduction Programme

• Possibility to give derogation.
• In any case the compulsory requirements for
  derogations should be
• No derogation is allowed for any of the 25
  priority hazardous substances (Decision 2455/2001
  EC)
• TIME derogation for a period to be determined
  case-by-case, can be given IF the application of
  BAT is ongoing AND/OR investments on
  environmental technology are demonstrated
• TIME derogation can also be given until an EQS is
  under revision

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Amendment of Pollution Reduction Programme

• Possibility to give derogation.
• PERMANENT TIME OR AREA derogation is the extreme
  measure and must be limited only to
• substances outside of the Decision 2455/2001 EC
• when
• all the above measures are unsuccessful or
  unfeasible
• and
• the reference EQS is not exceeded AT END OF BASIN

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• Possibility to give derogation. Other
  requirements
• Compulsory fulfilment of article 4, point 4 of
  WFD
• Derogation should be excluded in Protected Areas.

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• Possibility to give derogation. Other
  requirements
• Reasons and duration of derogation should be
  technically and economically based and
  demonstrated reporting to competent authority.
• The measures adopted to achieve the environmental
  objective and the compliance to the limit of
  discharge and to the Eqs, should be clearly
  reported.

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Amendment of Pollution Reduction Programme

• Possibility to give derogation. Final comments
• In allowing permanent time or area derogation, a
  political debate should carefully weight the
  advantages to preserve employment and, more
  generally, welfare against the drawbacks on
  environment and public health