The permit for an IPPC Treatment Plant must be regularly controlled and updated. The owner of the plant shall make regularly, but in any case within a period of four years after the publication of the BAT conclusions (= conclusions on the best available technologies, which are published in the Official Journal of the EU) on the main activity of an IPPC plant, the necessary adaptations to the state-of-the-art.
Please note
The BAT conclusions are available on the EDM portal.
The permit must, within a period of 4 years after the publication of BAT conclusions on the main activities of an IPPC plant, check and update the permit. Moreover, the authority checks and updates the permit and orders, if required, measures by decree, if
- the environmental pollution caused by the IPPC plant is so significant that the emission threshold values laid down in the authorisation have to be reviewed or revised,
- operating safety requires the use of other technologies,
- a legal provision which is to be applied (among others) in the authorisation procedure, which is new or has been amended, requires adaptation,
- no BAT conclusions apply to the IPPC plant; however, developments of the state-of-the-art render a considerable reduction of emissions possible.