This
Guidance is one of a series of Horizontal Guides covering all
of the industrial (or agricultural) sectors that fall under
IPPC. In common with most of the IPPC guidance it is joint guidance
produced by the Environment Agency, SEPA and the Northern Ireland
Environment and Heritage Service NIEHS).
Integrated Pollution Prevention and Control (IPPC) is a regulatory
system that employs an integrated approach to control the environmental
impacts of certain industrial activities. It involves determining
the appropriate controls to protect the environment through
a single permitting process. Amongst certain other requirements,
to gain a Permit Operators will have to show that:
- they
have developed proposals to apply the 'Best Available Techniques'
(BAT), taking account of relevant local factors; and
- that
no significant pollution is caused.
The
purpose of this IPPC Horizontal Guidance Note for Environmental
Assessment and Appraisal of BAT is to provide a methodology
to assist Applicants in responding to the requirements described
above and in the IPPC Sector and General Guidance Notes. In
particular, this note provides:
- methods
for quantifying environmental impacts to all media;
- a
method for calculating costs of environmental protection techniques;
- guidelines
on resolving cross media conflicts and making cost / benefit
judgements.
The
methodology can be used either:
a) to conduct an OPTIONS APPRAISAL of candidate
techniques to determine BAT to control specific emissions from
an installation, particularly in cases where:
- deviation
from indicative BAT in Guidance Notes is proposed;
- several
candidate Best Available Techniques exist; or
- no
indicative BAT is provided in Guidance Notes.
or
b)
to carry out an ENVIRONMENTAL assessment of the overall
impact of the emissions resulting from the installation as a
whole, in order to:
- confirm
that the emissions are acceptable (ie do not cause significant
pollution); and
- identify
priority emissions or environmental risks for further improvement.
To
view the H1 guidance please click on the link below:
IPPC H1 Horizontal Guidance Note –
Environmental Appraisal and Assessment of BAT - PDF (540k)
