- adhesive
means any mixture, including all the organic solvents or mixtures containing organic solvents necessary for its proper application, which is used to adhere separate parts of a product;
- available techniques
means techniques developed on a scale which allows implementation in the relevant industrial sector, under economically and technically viable conditions, taking into consideration the costs and advantages, regardless of whether such techniques are used or produced in the Union, as long as they are reasonably accessible to the operator;
- baseline report
means information on the state of soil and groundwater contamination by relevant hazardous substances;
- benchmarks
means the indicative range of environmental performance levels associated with best available techniques, which is to be used as a reference in the EMS;
- best
means most effective in achieving a high general level of protection of the environment as a whole, including human health and climate protection;
- best available techniques
means the most effective and advanced stage in the development of activities and their methods of operation which indicates the practical suitability of particular techniques for providing the basis for emission limit values and other permit conditions designed to prevent and, where that is not practicable, to reduce emissions and the impact on the environment as a whole:
- biomass
means any of the following:
- coating
means coating as defined in point 8 of Article 2 of Directive 2004/42/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 21 April 2004 on the limitation of emissions of volatile organic compounds due to the use of organic solvents in certain paints and varnishes and vehicle refinishing products;
- combustion plant
means any technical apparatus in which fuels are oxidised in order to use the heat thus generated;
- compliance assurance
means mechanisms for securing compliance using three categories of intervention: compliance promotion;
- consumption
means the total input of organic solvents into an installation per calendar year, or any other 12-month period, less any volatile organic compounds that are recovered for re-use;
- contained conditions
means conditions under which an installation is operated so that the volatile organic compounds released from the activity are collected and discharged in a controlled way either via a stack or abatement equipment and are, therefore, not entirely fugitive;
- deep industrial transformation
means the implementation by industrial operators of emerging techniques or best available techniques involving a major change in the design or technology of all or part of an installation or the replacement of an existing installation by a new installation, which allows an extremely substantial reduction of emissions of greenhouse gases in line with the objective of climate neutrality and optimises environmental co-benefits, at least to the levels that can be achieved by techniques identified in the applicable BAT conclusions, taking into account cross-media effects;
- determinative fuel
means the fuel which, amongst all fuels used in a multi-fuel firing combustion plant using the distillation and conversion residues from the refining of crude-oil for own consumption, alone or with other fuels, has the highest emission limit value as set out in Part 1 of Annex V, or, in the case of several fuels having the same emission limit value, the fuel having the highest thermal input amongst those fuels;
- diesel engine
means an internal combustion engine which operates according to the diesel cycle and uses compression ignition to burn fuel;
- dioxins and furans
means all polychlorinated dibenzo-p-dioxins and dibenzofurans listed in Part 2 of Annex VI;
- emerging technique
means a novel technique for an industrial activity that, if commercially developed, could provide either a higher general level of protection of human health and the environment or at least the same level of protection of human health and the environment and higher cost savings than existing best available techniques;
- emission
means the direct or indirect release of substances, vibrations, heat or noise from individual or diffuse sources in the installation into air, water or land;
- emission levels associated with emerging techniques
means the range of emission levels obtained under normal operating conditions using an emerging technique or a combination of emerging techniques, as described in BAT conclusions, expressed as an average over a given period of time, under specified reference conditions;
- emission levels associated with the best available techniques
means the range of emission levels obtained under normal operating conditions using a best available technique or a combination of best available techniques, as described in BAT conclusions, expressed as an average over a given period of time, under specified reference conditions;
- emission limit value
means the mass, expressed in terms of certain specific parameters, concentration and/or level of an emission, which may not be exceeded during one or more periods of time;
- environmental inspection
means all actions, including site visits, monitoring of emissions and checks of internal reports and follow-up documents, verification of self-monitoring, checking of the techniques used and adequacy of the environment management of the installation, undertaken by or on behalf of the competent authority to check and promote compliance of installations with their permit conditions and, where necessary, to monitor their environmental impact;
- environmental performance
means the performance with regard to consumption levels, resource efficiency concerning materials, water and energy resources, the reuse of materials and water, and to waste generation;
- environmental performance levels associated with emerging techniques
means the range of environmental performance levels, obtained under normal operating conditions, using an emerging technique or a combination of emerging techniques as described in BAT conclusions;
- environmental performance levels associated with the best available techniques
means the range of environmental performance levels, obtained under normal operating conditions using a BAT or a combination of BATs;
- environmental performance limit value
means a performance value included in a permit, expressed for specified conditions in terms of certain specific parameters;
- environmental quality standard
means the set of requirements which must be fulfilled at a given time by a given environment or particular part thereof, as set out in Union law;
- existing installation
means an installation in operation on 29 March 1999 or which was granted a permit or registered before 1 April 2001 or the operator of which submitted a complete application for a permit before 1 April 2001, provided that that installation was put in operation no later than 1 April 2002;
- existing waste incineration plant
means one of the following waste incineration plants:
- fuel
means any solid, liquid or gaseous combustible material;
- fugitive emissions
means any emissions not in waste gases of volatile organic compounds into air, soil and water as well as solvents contained in any products, unless otherwise stated in Part 2 of Annex VII;
- gas engine
means an internal combustion engine which operates according to the Otto cycle and uses spark ignition or, in case of dual fuel engines, compression ignition to burn fuel;
- gas turbine
means any rotating machine which converts thermal energy into mechanical work, consisting mainly of a compressor, a thermal device in which fuel is oxidised in order to heat the working fluid, and a turbine;
- general binding rules
means emission limit values or other conditions, at least at sector level, that are adopted with the intention of being used directly to set permit conditions;
- groundwater
means groundwater as defined in point 2 of Article 2 of Directive 2000/60/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 23 October 2000 establishing a framework for Community action in the field of water policy;
- hazardous substances
means substances or mixtures as defined in Article 3 of Regulation (EC) No 1272/2008 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 16 December 2008 on classification, labelling and packaging of substances and mixtures;
- hazardous waste
means hazardous waste as defined in point 2 of Article 3 of Directive 2008/98/EC;
- indigenous solid fuel
means a naturally occurring solid fuel fired in a combustion plant specifically designed for that fuel and extracted locally;
- ink
means a mixture, including all the organic solvents or mixtures containing organic solvents necessary for its proper application, which is used in a printing activity to impress text or images on to a surface;
- input
means the quantity of organic solvents and their quantity in mixtures used when carrying out an activity, including the solvents recycled inside and outside the installation, and which are counted every time they are used to carry out the activity;
- installation
means a stationary technical unit within which one or more activities listed in Annex I, in Annex Ia or in Part 1 of Annex VII are carried out, and any other directly associated activities on the same site which have a technical connection with the activities listed in those Annexes and which could have an effect on emissions and pollution;
- livestock unit
means a standard measurement unit that allows for the aggregation of the various categories of livestock in order for them to be compared, and is calculated by using the coefficients for individual livestock categories listed in Annex Ia;
- mixed municipal waste
means waste from households as well as commercial, industrial and institutional waste which, because of its nature and composition, is similar to waste from households, but excluding fractions indicated under heading 20 01 of the Annex to Decision 2000/532/EC that are collected separately at source and excluding the other waste indicated under heading 20 02 of that Annex;
- mixture
means mixture as defined in Article 3(2) of Regulation (EC) No 1907/2006 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 18 December 2006 concerning the Registration, Evaluation, Authorisation and Restriction of Chemicals (REACH) and establishing a European Chemicals Agency,
- multi-fuel firing combustion plant
means any combustion plant which may be fired simultaneously or alternately by two or more types of fuel;
- new waste incineration plant
means any waste incineration plant not covered by point (a).
- nominal capacity
means the sum of the incineration capacities of the furnaces of which a waste incineration plant or a waste co-incineration plant is composed, as specified by the constructor and confirmed by the operator, with due account being taken of the calorific value of the waste, expressed as the quantity of waste incinerated per hour;
- operating hours
means the time, expressed in hours, during which a combustion plant, in whole or in part, is operating and discharging emissions into the air, excluding start-up and shut-down periods;
- operating rules
means the rules included in permits or general binding rules for the operation of activities referred to in Annex Ia, setting out the emission limit values, the environmental performance limit values, associated monitoring requirements, and, where relevant, land spreading practices, pollution prevention and mitigation practices, nutritional management, feed preparation, housing, manure management, including collection, storage, processing and land spreading of manure, and storage of dead animals, and which are consistent with the use of best available techniques;
- operator
means any natural or legal person who operates or controls in whole or in part the installation or combustion plant, waste incineration plant or waste co-incineration plant or, where this is provided for in national law, to whom decisive economic power over the technical functioning of the installation or plant has been delegated;
- organic compound
means any compound containing at least the element carbon and one or more of hydrogen, halogens, oxygen, sulphur, phosphorus, silicon or nitrogen, with the exception of carbon oxides and inorganic carbonates and bicarbonates;
- organic solvent
means any volatile organic compound which is used for any of the following:
- permit
means a written authorisation to operate all or part of an installation or combustion plant, waste incineration plant or waste co-incineration plant;
- pigs
means pigs as defined in Article 2 of Council Directive 2008/120/EC;
- pollution
means the direct or indirect introduction, as a result of human activity, of substances, vibrations, heat, noise or odours into air, water or land, which can be harmful to human health or the quality of the environment, result in damage to material property, or impair or interfere with amenities and other legitimate uses of the environment;
- poultry
means poultry as defined in Article 4, point 9, of Regulation (EU) 2016/429 of the European Parliament and of the Council;
- rate of desulphurisation
means the ratio over a given period of time of the quantity of sulphur which is not emitted into air by a combustion plant to the quantity of sulphur contained in the solid fuel which is introduced into the combustion plant facilities and which is used in the plant over the same period of time;
- re-use
means the use of organic solvents recovered from an installation for any technical or commercial purpose and including use as a fuel but excluding the final disposal of such recovered organic solvent as waste;
- residue
shall mean any liquid or solid waste which is generated by a waste incineration plant or waste co-incineration plant.
- small isolated system
means a small isolated system as defined in point 26 of Article 2 of Directive 2003/54/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 26 June 2003 concerning common rules for the internal market in electricity;
- soil
means the top layer of the Earth’s crust situated between the bedrock and the surface.
- stack
means a structure containing one or more flues providing a passage for waste gases in order to discharge them into the air;
- start-up and shut-down operations
means operations excluding regularly oscillating activity phases whilst bringing an activity, an equipment item or a tank into or out of service or into or out of an idling state.
- substance
means any chemical element and its compounds, with the exception of the following substances:
- substantial change
means a change in the nature or functioning, or an extension, of an installation or combustion plant, waste incineration plant or waste co-incineration plant which may have significant negative effects on human health or the environment;
- techniques
includes both the technology used and the way in which the installation is designed, built, maintained, operated and decommissioned;
- the public
means one or more natural or legal persons and, in accordance with national law or practice, their associations, organisations or groups;
- the public concerned
means the public affected or likely to be affected by, or having an interest in, the taking of a decision on the granting or the updating of a permit or of permit conditions;
- total emissions
means the sum of fugitive emissions and emissions in waste gases;
- varnish
means a transparent coating;
- volatile organic compound
means any organic compound as well as the fraction of creosote, having at 293,15 K a vapour pressure of 0,01 kPa or more, or having a corresponding volatility under the particular conditions of use;
- waste
means waste as defined in point 1 of Article 3 of Directive 2008/98/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 19 November 2008 on waste;
- waste co-incineration plant
means any stationary or mobile technical unit whose main purpose is the generation of energy or production of material products and which uses waste as a regular or additional fuel or in which waste is thermally treated for the purpose of disposal through the incineration by oxidation of waste as well as other thermal treatment processes, such as pyrolysis, gasification or plasma process, if the substances resulting from the treatment are subsequently incinerated;
- waste gases
means the final gaseous discharge containing volatile organic compounds or other pollutants from a stack or abatement equipment into air;
- waste incineration plant
means any stationary or mobile technical unit and equipment dedicated to the thermal treatment of waste, with or without recovery of the combustion heat generated, through the incineration by oxidation of waste as well as other thermal treatment processes, such as pyrolysis, gasification or plasma process, if the substances resulting from the treatment are subsequently incinerated;