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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


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