Environmentally relevant industrial plants
Directive 2010/75/EU on industrial emissions (IED Directive) forms the basis for the approval of particularly environmentally relevant industrial facilities in the European Union. It was adopted at the end of 2010 and came into force at the beginning of 2011.
Objective of the Industrial Emissions Directive
The aim of this directive is to prevent, reduce and, as far as possible, eliminate the environmental impact of industrial plants on air, water and soil. For this cross-media, integrated protection approach, industrial installations are brought into line with a uniform technical standard, the so-called best available techniques (BAT). Among other things, the IED extends the regulations on BAT, tightens emission limit values in some cases and specifies detailed requirements for reporting and plant monitoring.
The directive has now been transposed into national law and the resulting regulations came into force on May 2, 2013.
The IED replaces the previous Directive on Integrated Pollution Prevention and Control (IPPC Directive) and brings together other directives relating to immission control.
Industrial plants affected
In the Ordinance on Installations Requiring a Permit (4th BImSchV), IED plants are listed in Annex I of the 4th BImSchV and marked with the entry "E" in column "d". In addition, every independently operated industrial wastewater treatment plant that treats wastewater from IED plants is itself also an IED plant (Section 60 (3) sentence 1 no. 2 of the Water Resources Act).
Implementation of the IE Directive
Section 52a of the amended Federal Immission Control Act (BImSchG) stipulates that monitoring plans and monitoring programs must be drawn up for facilities that are subject to the Industrial Emissions Directive.
To carry out the monitoring, the city of Jena has drawn up a monitoring plan for all affected industrial plants. On the basis of this plan, the City of Jena has drawn up a monitoring program for the IED installations it has to monitor, which is available for download.
The current monitoring reports for the IED facilities listed in Annex 1 of the monitoring program are also available for download.
The tasks of the Immission Control team to be performed in this context include
- Preparation of approval notices for new IED installations
- Examination of the reports on the initial status of soil and groundwater (AZB) to be submitted in the context of new installations or significant changes to IED installations
- Reviewing and, if necessary, updating the approval notices
- Creating and updating programs for regular monitoring
- On-site inspections as part of immission control monitoring of installations requiring approval under immission control law and ensuring that the installation in question complies with the approval requirements
- Checking the information submitted annually by plant operators as part of emission monitoring