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| Project Metadata Element | Details |
| Project Title | Modelling national emissions to air and water |
| Research Area | Water |
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| Principal Investigator or Lead Irish Partner | David Styles |
| Lead Institution or Organisation | University of Dublin, Trinity College (TCD) |
| Lead Country | Ireland |
| Latitude, Longitude (of Lead Institution) | 53.34449, -6.25867 |
| Lead Funding Entity | Environmental Protection Agency |
| Approximate Project Start Date | 21/08/2006 |
| Approximate Project Finishing Date | 21/08/2008 |
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| Project Keywords | Integrated Pollution Prevention Control; Liscensing management; Environmental pressures; Best available techniques |
| Project Abstract | The 1996 EC Directive on Integrated Pollution Prevention and Control (IPPC) licensing (96/61/EC) integrated the regulation of emissions to air water and land and the management of wastes and noise into single licences. Integration of impacts across different media and harmonisation across member states was intended to ensure high environmental standards throughout the EU and avoid the shifting of environmental pressures to less-regulated media or countries. Although the IPPC Directive was only formally transposed into Irish law through the Protection of the Environment Act in 2003 a similar form of integrated licensing (Integrated Pollution Control: IPC) had been enforced since 1994 by Irelandis EPA. Essentially IPPC licence conditions specify minimum environmental performance standards including Emission Limit Values (ELVs) associated with application of Best Available Techniques (BAT). Monitoring and reporting of emissions waste export resource consumption and local impacts are also required. This report presents the results of a three-year research fellowship in which air and water emissions data reported by IPPC installations were collated and interpreted in terms of environmental performance and used to infer the effectiveness of IPPC regulation. |