Negotiation Chapter 22: Environment -POLAND
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CONFERENCE ON ACCESSION Brussels, 7 September 2001 TO THE EUROPEAN UNION -POLAND- CONF -PL 78/01 Document provided by Poland Negotiation Chapter 22: Environment -POLAND Additional information following the technical consultations on 26.06.2001 Packaging - Poland to provide a new table with intermediate reduction targets with following lines: one line for recovery, one line for recycling and one line for recycling of each of the four materials (glass, plastics, metals and paper/paperboard) 20603/01 CONF-PL 78/01 1 EN 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 Packaging waste stream recovery recycling recovery recycling recovery recycling recovery recycling recovery recycling recovery recycling Plastics recovery/recycling level[%] 8 7 II 10 16 14 23 18 29 22 37 25 packaging waste mass [I 000 tons] 544,2 580,9 617,6 654,3 691 727,7 recovered/recycled mass [1 000 tons] 43,54 38,09 63,90 58,09 98,82 86,46 150,49 117,77 200,39 152,02 269,25 181,93 Glass recovery/recycling level[%] 13 13 16 16 22 22 29 29 35 35 40 40 packaging waste mass [ 1 000 tons] 105 I, 1 I I 01,2 I 151,4 1201,5 1251,7 1301,8 recovered/recycled mass [I 000 tons] 136,64 136,64 176,19 176,19 253,31 253,31 348,44 348,44 438,10 438,10 520,72 520,72 Paper and cardboard recovery/recycling level[%] 38 37 39 38 41 39 46 42 52 45 60 48 packaging waste mass £I 000 tons] 1410 1505 1600 1695 1790 1885 recovered/recycled mass [ 1 000 tons] 535,8 521,7 586,95 571,9 656 624 779,7 711,9 930,8 805,5 1131 904,8 Metals - total recovery/recycling level(%] 8,0 8,0 10,7 10,7 14,1 14,1 17,6 17,6 21,8 21,8 24,5 24,5 packaging waste mass [I 000 tons] 186,20 193, to 200,10 207,00 214,00 220,90 recovered/recycled mass [I 000 tons] 14,94 14,94 20,66 20,66 28,30 28,30 36,40 36,40 46,66 46,66 54,06 54,06 Wood & textiles recovery/recycling level[%] 50 5 52 7 57 9 60 I I 67 13 75 15 packaging waste mass [ 1 000 tons] 500,8 507,3 513,8 520,3 526,8 533,3 recovered/recycled mass [I 000 tons] 250,4 25,0 263,8 35,5 292,9 46,2 312,2 57,2 353,0 68,5 400,0 80,0 Composities recovery/recycling level[%] 5 5 8 8 13 12 18 16 23 20 30 25 packaging waste mass [1 000 tons] 158,4 169,4 179,8 190,5 201,2 211,9 recovered/recycled mass [I 000 tons] 7,9 7,9 13,6 13,6 23,4 21,6 34,3 30,5 46,3 40,2 63,6 53,0 Packaging- Total Packaging total mass [ 1 000 tons] 3349,90 3549,60 4262,70 4468,60 4674,70 4880,60 recovered/recycled mass [1 000 tons] 989,2 744,34 1125,0 875,90 1352,7 1059,89 1661,5 1302,23 2015,2 1551,00 2438,6 1794,48 recovery/recycling level [%] 29,5 22,2 31,7 24,7 31,7 24,9 37,2 29,1 43,1 33,2 50,0 36,8 20603/01 CONF-PL 78/01 2 EN IPPC: request relating to "new" installations, scope of request for "existing" installations (list of installations); Poland submits additional information concerning the requirements for new installations and the solutions adopted for granting integrated permits for existing installations. A. New installations Poland has modified its approach in this respect and confirms that all new installations within the meaning of the IPPC Directive will have to obtain an integrated permit by Poland's accession to the European Union (it means that by that time all the new installations will have to meet BAT requirements, otherwise their operation will have to be stopped). This matter will be regulated by way of the Regulation on the dates by which integrated permits shall have to be obtained, issued by the Minister of the Environment, in agreement with the Minister of the Economy pursuant the Act on the Introduction of the Environmental Protection Act, the Waste Act and Amending Certain Acts. B. Existing installations Poland has developed a consistent system for dealing with existing installations, which has a full legal basis in the Environmental Protection Act and the Act on the Introduction of the Environmental Protection Act, the Waste Act and Amending Certain Acts. This system provides that the overwhelming majority of integrated permits (72%) for existing installations will be granted by 2007, i.e., in the period required by the Directive. In the transition period requested, i.e., by the 31 December 2010, only two categories of installations of local significance and those larger installations failing to meet all the requirements of the IPPC Directive that will successfully pass the procedure for adopting approximation programmes will be able to obtain integrated permits. Compliance programmes are a modem instrument forcing installations to adjust as soon as possible to the requirements of the Best Available Technique, which is and fully in line with the philosophy of the IPPC Directive. The legal basis for this instrument is provided by the newly adopted Environmental Protection Act. This instrument has an built-in system of preventing its use for a purpose other than that of aligning the installations to the BAT requirements as soon as possible. It should be stressed that the operations in the installations failing to agree on approximation programmes by the date when the obligation to obtain an integrated permit enters into force will be stopped. At present, it is impossible yet to indicate exactly which installations will take advantage of this opportunity - it is a voluntary instrument and requires, in order for the permit to be granted, the successful conclusion of the procedure for adopting the approximation programme by way of negotiations. Nevertheless, following a description of the procedure applicable to existing installations, this information encloses lists of installations to which, with large likelihood, the obligation to obtain an integrated permit will apply in the transition period requested, i.e., in 2008- 2010. In accordance with the legislation now in effect, by the time that they have integrated permits, all existing installations are obliged to have permits for the individual environmental media. This means that despite not having the integrated permit as required by the IPPC Directive, their impact on the environment are under administrative control. 20603/01 CONF-PL 78/01 3 EN Poland is convinced that this additional information fully justify its request for a transition period for IIPC Directive and adequately specify the type and number of installations to be covered by the transition period. DESCRIPTION OF THE PROCEDURE Regulation of the Minister of the Environment will set the dates (in the time interval from 1 January 2004 to 31 December 2010) by which the permits need to be obtained, depending on the sector and size of the installation. Poland expects that only two types of installations will enjoy the right to obtain integrated permits by a date later than 2007. They will include: • municipal heating plants with a rated thermal input between 50 and 300 MW; • municipal waste landfills receiving 10 to 20 tonnes of waste per day. The installations falling into these two categories operate on local markets and offer no competition to other economic operators. The starost is competent authority granting integrated permit for these installations.*) Despite the specific deadlines will be set for these installations to obtain integrated permits in 2008-2010, it should be expected that those that experience no problems with complying with BAT requirements will obtain integrated permit sooner. All the other types of installations will be obliged to obtain integrated permits by 2007. It should be stressed that the Regulation will set the deadlines by which the permits will need to be obtained, while the authorities will encourage the operators to apply for the granting of integrated permits much in advance in respect of the dates set in the Regulation. At the same time, some installations subject to the IPPC requirements will be able to obtain integrated permits at a date later than provided for in the timetable laid down in the Regulation of the Minister of the Environment (this does not mean that his date must be later than 2007), on the condition of the implementation of the approximation programme as agreed to with the competent authorities. It should be underlined that not all installations will be able to apply for approximation programme, since this mechanism applies only to the limited group of installations the types and sizes of which will be laid down in a separate Regulation of the Minister of the- Environment. They will be installations for which the voivode is the authority competent to grant integrated permits. In this group, each installation willing to take the opportunity offered by approximation programme will have to fulfil the following conditions: • demonstrate that it is unable to meet the BAT requirements by the date set in the Regulation of the Minister of the Environment, • submit a reliable financing plan for the implementation of projects necessary to achieve full compliance with BAT by 31 December 2010 at the latest. (this does not mean that the dates of conclusion of the implementation of approximation programmes will always go beyond 2007; this may be, e.g., 2006 for an installation with regard to which the obligation to obtain a permit is set for 2005), •> Under the Polish law, the voivode is the competent authority for projects in Annex I to Directive 85/337/EEC (amended by Directive 97/11/EC), whereas the starost is competent for projects in Annex II to this Directive and the other projects.