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Integrated pollution prevention and control (IPPC)

Journal:
Manual of European Environmental Policy
ISSN:
1467-0445
E-ISSN:
1740-3529
Publisher:
Routledge,
DOI:
10.3763/meep.2010.0053
Author:
Institute for European Environmental Policy
Information last updated:
April 2012
Publication date:
April 2012

Certain industrial activities are to be authorized in order to attain ‘a high level of protection for the environment taken as a whole’. This can be achieved by preventing or reducing emissions to air, water and land, including measures concerning waste. The Directive differs from previous legislation which dealt with emissions only to air or water. Manufacturers and authorities thus have to think about all emissions and impacts in the design of the whole plant (‘clean technology’) rather than relying on ‘end-of-pipe’ techniques.

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