IPPC, PPC and Environmental Permitting..

What's the difference?

There are no longer separate regimes for waste management and IPPC/ PPC.

Both will now be regulated by the new Environmental Permitting Regulations which came into force on 6 April 2008.

These new regulations aim to make existing legislation more efficient by combining Pollution Prevention and Control (PPC and IPPC) and Waste Management Licensing (WML) regulations. 

Why do I have to get an Environmental Permit?

Some activities have the potential to harm the environment or human health unless they are controlled. The Environmental Permitting Regime (“the Regime”) requires operators to obtain permits for some facilities, the registration of exemptions for other facilities, and allows ongoing supervision of potentially harmful activities by the regulators.

Abricon can help with:

• identifying which facilities that need environmental permits, and which may be registered as exempt

• the process for registering exemptions

• applying for and determining your individual permit applications

• determining what conditions need to be met to protect the environment, as required by Directives and national policy

• assisting you with changing or surrendering your new environmental permits/ old PPC licences

• understanding the new permitting system (now called standard rules)

• implementing any individual/ company specific compliance obligations

Case Studies

• IPPC Support,
  Electronics Components manufacturer, UK
  
• IPPC Support,
  Consumer Goods Packaging company, UK
  
• IPPC Support to Metal Finishing companies, UK
  

Contact Abricon for free initial advice on these and other environmental permitting issues.