Building a national BAT-based system
Below, you can find suggestions and methods on how to identify and establish BAT, BAT-associated emission levels (BAT-AELs) and other environmental performance levels (BAT-AEPLs), as well as BAT-based permit conditions, including emission limit values for your country. These approaches can be applied to both new and existing industries.
- Establish BAT in your national legislation
- Set up a multi-stakeholder Technical Working Group (TWG) for each industrial sector.
- The TWG determines emission levels (BAT-AELs) and other environmental performance levels associated with BAT (BAT-AEPLs) and document in BREFs for each sector.
- The TWG determines emission levels (BAT-AELs) and other environmental performance levels associated with BAT (BAT-AEPLs) documented and described in BREFs.
- The TWG should derive both concentrations and load based BAT-AELs and other BAT-AEPLs.
- The derived BAT and BAT-AE(P)Ls should be updated according to the most recent technological developments and environmental performance data from reference installations.
- After BAT, BAT-AE(P)Ls are set, national, regional and/or local permitting authorities use the BAT and BAT-AE(P)Ls as a basis to determine emission limit values (ELVs) and other conditions in environmental permits for industrial installations.
Relevant tools
Below is a list of tools relevant for implementing this topic :