BRUSSELS (Dow Jones) – The chances of the European Parliament, the Member States to wrest minimum binding limits on industrial emissions, are not too good. (Reuters photo:)
After the Council of Ministers, the corresponding requirement of the Parliament had already rejected in first reading, the lead Environment Committee at second reading was no longer as ambitious. The rapporteur, the FDP-Arrayed Holger Krahmer said after the vote on the so-called IPPC Directive by a mostly minimal, hardly the place will protect the environment.
Glad it turned out Krahmer that the committee voted to most farms from the scope of the Directive to exclude and to delete the duty to prepare the ground state reports. Farms are not industrial plants, Krahmer said. How much lower fertilizer or manure a farmer or how many cattle he may hold, will no longer determined by the IPPC Directive. Only large companies with more than 40,000 head of poultry, pigs or 2000 or 750 dams are subject to approval.
With the IPPC Directive, new limits as for sulfur dioxide, nitrogen oxides and particulate matter introduced and seven existing directives will be merged and updated. These include the Directive on Integrated Pollution Prevention and Control (IPPC). From its 52,000 industrial plants in Europe are more affected.
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