Establishing BAT

To establish BAT, here are the essential steps your country may refer for how to effectively design or review their approach to establishing BAT or similar concepts:

Pre-requisites:

  • Select relevant industries for the BAT-based environmental permitting process,
  • Set-up multi-stakeholder groups to determine BAT, representing the government, industry and NGOs.
  1. Collect information on pollution prevention and control techniques, emission and consumption levels
  2. Evaluate techniques and data collected
  3. Adopt or adjust the BAT determined by other countries and made available in their BAT Reference Documents to your needs as appropriate. Some of which are:
  • The BAT Reference Documents (BREF) of other countries
  • The BAT identified as guidance for the implementation of the Minamata Convention on Mercury and the Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants
  • The World Bank Group’s Industry Sector Guidelines
  • Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants: Guidelines on BAT and Provisional Guidance on Best Environmental Practices

To establish BAT, your country could:

  • Gather data on available techniques through, e.g., sector-specific questionnaires, literature review and stakeholder meetings.
  • Engage a variety of stakeholders to assess the environmental, economic and social aspects of available techniques, e.g., through sector-specific Technical Working Groups.
  • Publish information on the techniques identified as BAT in BAT Reference Documents.

 


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