BREFs were first adopted under Directive 2008/1/EC that codified rules for permitting industrial installations, as laid out by the Integrated Pollution Prevention and Control (IPPC) Directive 96/61/EC. In 2014, the IPPC Directive was repealed by the Industrial Emissions Directive (IED) 2010/75/EU. BREFs completed under the IED contain a dedicated section laying down the conclusions on best available techniques. BAT conclusions are adopted according to IED Article 13(5) by committee procedure. They provide the reference setting emission limits and permitting large agro-industrial installations covered under Annex I of the Industrial Emissions Directive.
Each BREFs gives information on a specific agro-industrial sector or activity; BREFs are typically structured as follows:
- Preface and scope
- General information about the sector concerned
- Applied processes and techniques
- Current emission and consumption levels
- Techniques to consider in the determination of BAT
- BAT conclusions
- Emerging techniques
- Concluding remarks and recommendations for future work
- References
- Glossary of terms and abbreviations
- Annexes (depending on sector and availability of information)
Other reference documents
For Reference documents developed under other legislation/policy documents which are not a part of the information exchange under the IED/IPPC Directive (i.e. Management of Tailings and Waste-Rock in Mining Activities (MTWR), HydroCarbons exploration and extraction (HC)), please click here.