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REPORT (COM(2022)0156 – C90144/20222 – 2022/0104(COD))

On the proposal for a directive of the European Parliament and of the Council amending Directive 2010/75/EU of the European Parliament and of the Council of 24 November 2010 on industrial emissions (integrated pollution prevention and control) and Council Directive 1999/31/EC of 26 April 1999 on the landfill of waste

A-9-2023-0216

Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Food Safety · Rapporteur: Radan Kanev

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Parliament's amended version of the Commission proposal to revise the Industrial Emissions Directive and the Landfill Directive. It widens the scope to large cattle, pig and poultry farms, battery manufacturing, and certain mining and oil and gas activities, and tightens permit rules on emission and environmental performance limit values. It requires operators to run an audited environmental management system, to publish permits and monitoring data online, and to prepare indicative transformation plans. It sets rules on derogations, penalties, and compensation for health damage from breaches. It adds rules for rearing activities, including operating rules, registration or permits, and monitoring, and creates a fast-track permit route for installations using emerging techniques.

Committee position. The committee proposes to amend the Commission proposal to widen scope to large farms, battery manufacturing and certain mining and oil and gas activities, tighten emission and environmental performance limit values, require environmental management systems and transformation plans, and add fast-track permitting for emerging techniques.

Key points

  1. The amended directive aims to prevent or continuously reduce emissions into air, water and land, prevent waste, and improve resource efficiency in water, energy and raw materials.
  2. It adds 'olfactory pollution' to the definition of pollution and requires permits to consider odour emissions and substances of emerging concern.
  3. It brings large pig, poultry and cattle installations into scope, with thresholds of 200 LSU for pigs or poultry and 300 LSU for cattle, excluding extensive farming.
  4. It includes large battery manufacturing installations in scope, except those exclusively assembling battery modules and packs, with a threshold of 17,500 tons of battery cells or more per year.
  5. It adds onshore and offshore oil and fossil gas upstream exploration and production, and extraction and treatment of listed metalliferous minerals, to Annex I.
  6. Competent authorities must set the strictest achievable emission limit values within the BAT-AEL range, and environmental performance limit values within the binding range, with limited derogations.
  7. Operators must run an environmental management system, audited at least every 3 years, made available online free of charge.
  8. Operators of listed installations must include indicative transformation plans in their EMS by 30 June 2027, and the 200 most polluting installations must also do so unless they have a 2035 closure plan.
  9. Member States must ensure permits are reconsidered at least every 8 years, and permits and monitoring data are published online free of charge.
  10. Member States must set penalties including fines of at least 4% of the operator's annual turnover in the financial year preceding the fine, and ensure compensation for health damage from violations.
  11. The Commission must adopt delegated acts establishing operating rules for rearing activities and a list of the 200 most polluting installations by 30 June 2026.
  12. Fast-track permits for installations applying emerging techniques must not exceed 18 months, with processing completed within 90 days of receipt.

Who is affected

  • Large pig, poultry and cattle farms, which must meet permit or registration and operating rules, with extensive farming excluded.
  • Battery manufacturers, which must comply with the directive except those exclusively assembling modules and packs.
  • Mining and oil and gas operators, whose listed activities are brought into scope.
  • Industrial operators generally, which must run an EMS, publish data, and prepare transformation plans.
  • Drinking water and wastewater operators, which must be consulted and informed of pollution incidents.

Figures and deadlines

  • 200 LSU or more for rearing pigs or poultry, excluding extensive farming.
  • 300 LSU or more for rearing cattle, excluding extensive farming.
  • 250 LSU or more for mixed rearing, with categories below 25 LSU not counted.
  • 17,500 tons of battery cells or more per year for battery manufacturing.
  • 8 years for permit reconsideration.
  • 3 years for auditing the EMS.
  • 30 June 2027 for including transformation plans in the EMS.
  • 4% of annual turnover as the minimum maximum fine for legal persons.

Legal basis: Article 294(2) and Article 192(1) of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union.