The European Commission?s Seville-based IPPC bureau has released the second draft of revised EU guidance on best available techniques (BAT) to reduce pollution from pig and poultry installations.
- The new draft specifies BAT techniques and their associated emissionlevels (AELs) from which limit values will be derived in pollutionpermits determined by national authorities, taking into account localconditions.
- Stakeholders have until 21 October to comment.
This information, contained in chapter 5 of the document known as BREF, was previously not included in the original version published in March 2011.
- The revised BREF updates BAT techniques detailed in existing guidance and sets BAT-AELs for the first time.
- BAT-AELs for emissions of ammonia are proposed for different categories of animals.
- BAT techniques are also proposed to reduce ammonia emissions frommanure storage and the application of solid manure and slurry to land.
- Other recommendations in the draft revised pig and poultry BREFinclude AELs for dust and odour emissions and BAT-associatedenvironmental performance levels (AEPLs) for excreted nitrogen andphosphorous.
Source: ENDS Europe