Networking for an information exchange

on environmental standards in the EU

Almut Reichart and Brigitte Zietlow

German Federal Environment Agency
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Overwiev

 Stakeholder involvement in the European legislative process

 Networks for information exchange on BAT
• German perspective
• Pulp and paper industry
 Final remarks

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The European legislative process in environmental policy

Principal process and stakeholders involved

Decision making
Adoption of a regulation
Universities, academic institutions

Consultation Private sector – retailers, consultants, manufacturer

Implementation
EU Commission Public Permitting and regulatory bodies

Policy design Industry associations Professional and technical institutions

Operators
Evaluation
Central government of Member States

Improvements
Environmental NGOs
Agenda setting Administration
Civil society groups
Research and development
Problem recognition Industry

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Example for stakeholder involvement

Information exchange on BAT Installation data
(technical descriptions,
 The Industry Emission Directive emission values…)
(IED) is one of the outputs of the
EU legislation process
 The implementation of the IED EU Member EU
States Commission
includes the determination of
BATs
 BAT for a particular industrial
Industry Environmental
sector is identified by an
NGOs
information exchange process
for each sector between EU
Member States, industry
BREFs with
concerned, environmental NGOs BAT conclusions
and EU Commission
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Example for stakeholder involvement

Information exchange on BAT

EU Commission EU Member States Industry Environmental NGOs

• Definition of • Appoint experts for • Provide data on • Provide data on

framework the Technical emission values emission values
requirements and Working Group and techniques and techniques
organisation of • Provide data on • Appoint experts for • Appoint experts for
information emission values the Technical the Technical
exchange and techniques working group on Working Group
• Decision of • Organisation of a EU and national • Express public
controversial issues national information level interest on
and questions of exchange on BAT • Participating in environmental
principle • Vote on the BAT commenting protection and
• Checking the drafts conclusions documents health aspects
of BREFs and BAT • Give feedback to • Internal information • Collect and provide
conclusions (quality, the EU Commission exchange on best practice
legislative with regard to technical issues examples in EU as
consistency) organisational and • Defining postitions well as worldwide
• Publication of BAT practical problems • Follow new
conclusions on the information developments
exchange concerning BAT

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Information exchange on BAT from the German perspective

Core team: national expert group including: extended national expert group

Technical Technical Technical UBA

Industry, Experts
experts of the experts of the experts of the Expert
Operator, from research,
federal states federal states federal states
for emissions for emissions for WASTE + plant
engineering
development
and
to AIR to Water management standardisation
1 representative 1 representative 1 representative Head of
for for for delegation Representatives
TWG TWG TWG of competent Representatives
authorities of of environmental
example plants NGOs

Technical Working Group

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Information exchange on BAT

Industrial networks – Pulp and Paper industry
CEPI Professional and
•The Confederation of European Paper Industries is a non-profit making organisation
technical
representing the European pulp and paper.
institutions:
•Provides information for the industry; coordinates essential exchanges of experience
and knowledge; provides technical assistance to legislators
PTS
•Appoints experts for the Technical working group on BAT
(Papiertechnische
Stiftung)
German Pulp •The German Pulp and Paper Association (VDP) is the central association of the
and Paper German pulp and paper industry. Institution for
Association •Supports its members by means of cooperation in 13 professional associations and 8 Paper Science and
technical committees Technology
•Participates in national information exchange on BAT
TU Darmstadt
Chair of Paper
Technical committee
•Expresses the common positions of the pulp and paper sector to environmental issues Technology and
Environment and
•Provides technical assistance to legislators, competent authorities and the public Mechanical
Technique
•Provides information on ongoing developments Process
•Participates in national information exchange on BAT Engineering

TU Dresden
Professional Chair of Paper
department •Represents member companies from the sector of packaging papers
Technology
Packaging papers •Participates in national information exchange on BAT

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Final remarks
 Information exchange with stakeholders leads to a high degree of
acceptance of environmental regulation.
 Networks within as well as between the different stakeholder groups
are essential for the exchange of experience and knowledge.
 Information exchange along the whole supply chain is important to
consider all environmental aspects.
 Especially in sectors with many small and medium sized companies
the cooperation with professional and technical institutions is
necessary. It ensures the access to new developments in science and
technology, the support of implementation of new technologies or of
techniques well adapted to the single company.

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Thank you for your attention!

brigitte.zietlow@uba.de and almut.reichart@uba.de

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Useful links

Textile associations and research institutes:

 http://www.euratex.eu/
 http://www.textil-mode.de/en
 http://www.ivgt.de/en/home.html
 http://www.hohenstein.de/en/home/home.xhtml
 http://www.ditf-denkendorf.de/english/
 http://www.ita.rwth-aachen.de/andere_sprachen/englisch/index-englisch.html

Paper associations and research institutes:

 http://www.cepi.org/
 http://www.zellcheming.de/nc/en/home.html
 http://www.vdp-online.de/en.html
 http://www.ptspaper.com/
 http://tu-dresden.de/die_tu_dresden/fakultaeten/fakultaet_maschinenwesen/ihp/pt/index_html/document_view?body_language=de
 http://www.pmv.tu-darmstadt.de/fachgebietpmv_1/informativ_pmv/index.en.jsp

IMPEL:
 http://impel.eu/

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