1. Beyond Regulatory Compliance
EC DG Environment
Beyond Regulatory Compliance
Incentives to improve the environmental
performance of IPPC installations
IPPC Review EC
E.P.Schenk
Januari 2006

2. Beyond Regulatory Compliance?
BRC = Companies that achieve higher environmental performance than requiered by their IPPC permits
Examples are companies that are using
EMS (eg EMAS/ISO (Akzo Sassenheim NL)) or
product stewardship (VNCI, Chemical Industry Netherlands; U.S.)
to perform beyond the basic requirements that are in their permit.
Other tools or instruments are:
covenants, tax reliefs, differentiation in enforcement, name and fame publicity, etc.

3. Key objectives
illustrate scope for environmental performance beyond regulatory compliance (BRC)
inform EC about what are measures and levels of success to promote BRC
indicate IPPC supports/barriers on promoting BRC
Outline of possible changes IPPC directive

4. Overview of phases & activities

5. Questionnaire: respondents
List of all country members of IPPC-Advisory Group
- adding other contacts?
Relevant persons of authorities:
national level
regional level
- local level
Relevant industries:
different sectors of industry
- various sizes
country level

6. Interviews in the selected cases
Depending on the findings from the questionnaire
(sent to all EU countries) and the desk study results:
A visit of maximum 10 countries, however more interesting cases can be selected!
Criteria:
Good geographical coverage
Old and new EU members
Big and small countries
Different IPPC installations

7. Output
Analysis of existing instruments and tools used by companies to go
beyond regulatory compliance
Overview of levels of successes, bottlenecks, pitfalls and failures
Recommendations for possible changes of the IPPC Directive

8. Roles of the AG 1st stage: examples of exisiting tools and measures
Later:
Answer questionnaire + contacts for further distribution of questionnaire
Views on selected cases, support for identification of key contacts for interviews
Comments on deliverables such as reports

9. Planning January 2006 February Mid March: final questionnaire June
AG meeting 1
February
Mid March: final questionnaire
End of April: AG meeting 2
June
August
September: AG meeting 3
November: AG meeting 4
December
Planning