Projects - 1998

The report aims to promote common principles for determining the frequency of environmental inspection of industrial installations. It covers the following types of inspections: Routine inspections, Reactive inspections and Specific inspection campaigns.
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The monitoring of industrial processes, their releases and their impact on the environment, is often carried out by the competent authorities. However it may also be an obligation on the operators themselves including an obligation to report the results to the competent authority. This is known as operator self-monitoring.
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The report of this project presents the results of an IMPEL ad hoc project with the regard to the issues above. It contains three main sections.

1. section 1 is a comparison of the texts of the four instruments. It is intended to make reading the legal texts easier.
2. section 2 lists the installations falling within the scope of the instruments. It is intended to give an indication of whether or not a particular installation has to comply with the provisions of...

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The project reports that there are great differences amoung the Member States in:

• Current emission limit values, particularly for nitrogen oxides (NOx) and sulphur dioxide (SO2)
• Requirements on monitoring
• Criteria for input material, particularly waste
• Competent authorities and licensing procedure, e.g. as regards trial runs
• The report further contains reports on the legislative background in the EU as well as on Best Available Technology (BAT)...

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