FAQs

By writing us an email you will be advised which document(s) refers to your request and from there you can carry out further investigations. Please remember that most BREFs are elaborated specifically for one industrial sector and these are known as 'vertical BREFs'; however, there are a few horizontal BREFs to which you may also be referred.

By writing us an email you will then be advised which document(s) refers to your request and from there you can carry out further investigations. Please remember that most BREFs are elaborated specifically for one industrial sector and these are known as 'vertical BREFs'; however, there are a few horizontal BREFs to which you may also be referred.

By writing us an email you will then be advised which document(s) refers to your request and from there you can carry out further investigations. Please remember, that most BREFs are elaborated specifically for one industrial sector and these are known as 'vertical BREFs'; however, there are a few horizontal BREFs to which you may also be referred.

Please refer to the information on the IED (ex IPPC) on the DG Environment website.

Please refer this question to the relevant competent authority in your Member State.

Please refer this question to DG Environment.

Please refer this question the relevant competent authority in your Member State.

Please visit the EUR-LEX website where you will find information regarding all European legislation.

The Executive Summary of each BREF document is translated by the European Commission into all Member State languages and can be found here. If the list is not accessible please click on browse categories, then choose > European Commission > Environment > IPPC BREFs Translation > and finally click on > Library on the top left menu which will display a full list of translated summaries in all EU languages.

• French translations of complete (B)REFs can be found here.
• German translations of the most important parts of the (B)REFs, Executive Summaries or complete BREFs can be found here.

Translations of Executive Summaries of BREFs are only available for the BREFs published under the IPPC Directive (2008/1/EC) but not any more for those updated under the Industrial Emissions Directive (2010/75/EU) since they do not contain any more Executive Summaries.

We are also aware that some Member States translate other parts of BREF documents and for more information you will have to contact the relevant Member State. However, some links can be found on our website within each reference document.

The European IPPC Bureau does not have the resources to be able to provide this service. Several Member States translate the full BREF documents and make them available on the internet.

The European Union retains the copyright for each BREF document. Reproduction is authorised, except for commercial purposes, provided the source is acknowledged. Neither the European Commission nor any person acting on behalf of the Commission is responsible for the use that might be made of the information in these BREF documents.

The European IPPC Bureau is unable to send BREF documents by e-mail but you are able to go to the EIPPCB website and download these documents yourself following this link to our reference documents webpage.

Please refer to the information given within each BREF page (clicking on the coloured document symbols of the concerned BREF in our reference documents webpage).