Last update: 21/11/2007

Form for Relevant Authorities

Form for IPPC communication in accordance with the Decree of the Ministry of Environment and Land Protection of 29 May 2003

Article 16, point 3, of Directive no. 96/61/EC provides that:
"reports on the application of this Directive and on its efficacy with respect to other environmental protection Community tools are prepared according to Articles 5 and 6 of Directive no. 91/692/EEC. The first report will regard the first three years from the date in which Article 21 of this Directive was applied. The Commission presents this report to the Council accompanied, if required, by proposals."

The European Commission’s Decision of 31 May, 1999 concerning the questionnaire on Directive no. 96/61/EC for integrated pollution prevention and control (IPPC) provides to: "Supply available representative data on limit values for each category of activities as per Attachment I and, if required, the Best Available Techniques from which these values are taken. Describe how such data have been chosen and collected. Before or during the reporting period, the Commission can suggest guides to reply to this question, for some sectors, particularly on the basis of information published in accordance with Article 16, point 2. In the absence of such a guide data can, for example, be expressed as a limit value field."

In 2001, member States sent the Commission a first report with available representative data on emission limit values for specific categories of Attachment I to Directive no. 96/61/EC. On 31 January, 2003 the IPPC Experts Group (IEG) discussed the updating of the report on emission limit values and consequently approved a new document containing guidelines for communications from Member States.
Legislative Decree no. 372/99 (Article. 11 – Exchange of information) provides that:
"Every three years, by 30 April, Relevant authorities transmit to the Ministry of Environment and Land Protection a communication on the application of this Decree and particularly on emission limit values applied to plants as per Attachment I. Authorities should also transmit the Best Available Techniques on which these values are based, according to a specific form (established by the same Decree) in conformity with European Commission regulations. The first communication must be sent within thirteen months from the date in which this Decree enters into force. Every three years and for the first time within eighteen months from the date in which this Decree enters into force, the Ministry of Environment and Land Protection provides to send the information to the European Commission, as per paragraph 1."

On 1 October, 2003 the Official Gazzette no. 228 published the Decree of the Ministry of Environment and Land Protection of 29 May 2003 on "Approval of the form for communicating the application of Legislative Decree no. 372/1999, containing the implementation of Directive no. 96/61/EC on integrated pollution prevention and control". Below is the full Decree and the guide for filling in the form (in Italian).