S2.02 : Guidance for the Non Ferrous Metals
Sector
The IPPC Guidance for the Non Ferrous Metals Sector has been
issued. This guidance should be used by operators when preparing
their IPPC applications. The guidance takes into account the
information contained in the BAT Reference document (BREF) issued
for this sector by the European Commission.
It is one of a series of sector guides covering all of the
industrial (or agricultural) sectors which fall under IPPC. In
common with most of the IPPC guidance it is joint guidance with the
Environment Agency, SEPA and the Northern Ireland Environment and
Heritage Service (NIEHS).
In order to demonstrate that the Best Available Techniques (BAT)
are being proposed to satisfy the Regulations it is necessary, in
principle, for the operator to assess a wide range of options and
to balance costs and benefits of each to conclude which are BAT. To
avoid this being done for every installation the sector guidance
lays down, at national level, Indicative BAT requirements. If the
operator complies with these, no further assessment is needed.
Justifications in the application are generally only needed where
the operator wishes to depart from these indicative standards.
The guidance lays down a 3 part structure which enables the
applicant to show how the techniques measure up against the
Indicative BAT Requirements list the resulting emissions and
compare them with the benchmarks provide an impact assessment of
those emissions on the environment.
The techniques are laid out under a series of headings
(management systems, raw materials and water use, waste
minimisation, control of releases to air, land, water, groundwater,
odour, energy, noise, accidents, monitoring etc). For each of
these, the sector guidance lays down:
- what information should be supplied in the Application;
- the indicative BAT standards
To view the Guidance for the Non Ferrous Metals Sector please
click on the link below.
IPPC S2.02
Guidance for the Non Ferrous Metals Sector 
(1.22MB)