Following consultation the final version of IPPC S6.01 Technical Guidance for the Pulp and Paper Sector was produced in November 2000.

This guidance has been produced by the Environment Agency for England and Wales in collaboration with the Scottish Environment Protection Agency (SEPA) and the Northern Ireland Environment and Heritage Service (NIEHS). Together these are referred to as "the Agency" or "the Agencies" in this document. Its publication follows consultation with industry, government departments and non-governmental organisations.

This UK Guidance for delivering the PPC (IPPC) Regulations in the Pulp and Paper sector is based on the BAT Reference document BREF produced by the European Commission. The BREF is the result of an exchange of information between member states and industry. The quality, comprehensiveness and usefulness of the BREF is acknowledged. This guidance is designed to complement the BREF and is cross-referenced to it throughout. It takes into account the information contained in the BREF and lays down the standards and expectations in the UK (England and Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland) for the techniques and standards that need to be addressed to satisfy the Regulations. The reader is advised to have access to the BREF.

The aims of this guidance are to:

• provide a clear structure and methodology which operators making an application should follow to ensure that all aspects of the PPC Regulations and other relevant Regulations have been addressed and it should thereby assist the operator to make a satisfactory application;
  
  
• minimise the effort by both operator and regulator in the permitting of an installation by use of clear indicative standards and the use of material from previous applications, and from accredited Environmental Management Systems (EMSs);
  
  
• improve the consistency of applications by ensuring that all relevant issues are addressed;
  
  
• increase the transparency of the permitting process by having a structure in which the operators response to each issue, and any departures from the standards, can be seen clearly;
  
  
• improve consistency of regulation across installations and sectors by facilitating the comparison of applications;
  
  
• provide a very brief description of the activities (referring to the BREF for more detail) to assist the reader to understand the context of the requirements;
  
  
• provide a summary of the BAT techniques for pollution control from the BREF and UK experience which are relevant in the UK context expressed, where possible, as clear indicative standards and which need to be addressed by applicants;
  
  
• provide an arrangement of information which allows the reader to find, quickly all of the guidance associated with:
  
  • a subject (e.g. accidents, energy or noise) (Sections 2.1 and 2.5 - 2.11);
    
  • the technical areas (e.g. mechanical pulping or effluent treatment) (Sections 2.3 - 2.4);
    
  • particular emissions (e.g. NOx or pesticides) (Section 3).

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