best available technologies for manure treatment - Baltic Green Belt

Best Available Technologies for manure treatment baltic sea 2020
ANNEX I: REPORT FROM ROUNDTABLE DISCUSSION
Agenda
1. Welcome, Conrad Stralka, Baltic Sea 2020
2. Introduction and programme, moderated by
Project Leader Henning Lyngsø Foged
3. Presentation of participants
4. Presentation of the project, Lotta Samuelson,
Baltic Sea 2020, and Henning Lyngsø Foged,
CBMI
5. Expert statement about leaching of N and P from
pig manures, Fredrik Wulff, Baltic Sea 2020
6. Presentation of complete list of technologies
which are identified within the project, their
advantages and disadvantages, Henning Lyngsø
Foged, CBMI
7. Discussion about prioritising the manure treatment
technologies against the parameters defined
in the project, moderated by Henning Lyngsø
Foged, CBMI
8. Results of survey and discussion about IPPC
Communication and Implementation, Henning
Lyngsø Foged, CBMI
9. Summing up and concluding, Lotta Samuelson,
Baltic Sea 2020
Discussed
Re. 1: Welcome
Conrad Stralka informed in his welcome about the
activities of Baltic Sea 2020.
Re. 2: Introduction
Henning Foged emphasized in his introduction how
important we consider the stakeholders in relation to
the ultimate success criteria for the project – a higher
degree of livestock manure treatment to reduce the
leaching of N and P. Henning Foged also said that
the project should be seen as supporting and linking
up to other initiatives concerning livestock manure
treatment technologies.
Re. 3: Presentation of participants
The meeting had 11 participants from 5 of the 8
target countries.
Re. 4: Presentation of the project
Lotta Samuelson mentioned especially that the overall
objective of the “Best Practice Manure Projects”
is to reduce leaching of nutrients from large installations
for the intensive rearing of pigs around the
Baltic Sea. Phase 1 of the project concluded that according
to statistics from EU Joint Research Bureau,
nutrients in manure put on fields in the Baltic Sea
catchment area exceeds the nutrient discharge from
households in the same area. Baltic Sea 2020 will
focus on reducing nutrient leaching in manure from
installations for the intensive rearing of pigs to the
aquatic environment.
Henning Foged pointed out that the IPPC
Directive is 13 years old, it came into force in a
period where livestock manure treatment was rarely
happening, and since then has a major structural
development had taken place in the pig production
sector. Danish installations for the intensive rearing
of pigs had an average of 550 pigs per farm with pigs
in 1996, including both sows, piglets and fatteners
– today this figure is 2.250! It seems justified that
the project on this background considers, whether
livestock manure treatment technologies should be
given more focus in the administration of the IPPC
Directive.
Vaclovas Beržinskas said during the discussion,
water monitoring should be part of the project and
that part of the problem with leaching is a setback
that the environmental permitting institutions do not
wish to deal with complicated issues.
Re. 5: Expert statement
Fredrik Wulff focused in his presentation on the
input of N and P to the Baltic Sea from agricultural
production in the form of fertilisers and feed. The
agriculture sector is calculated to provide for 50%
of the total nutrient load to the Baltic Sea. The EU
legislation as well as voluntary actions by farmers has
resulted in more efficient use of fertilisers and excess
nutrients to the waterways leaching is expected to decrease
n the coming years. Denmark has had a large
decline in its use of mineral fertiliser, but simultaneously
a large increase in imported protein feed.
Professor Wulff cited a Finnish study, which had
shown that 11% of N and 17% of P had leached
from manures spread in the autumn, while the leaching
was 33% of N and 59% of P in manures spread
in the winter.
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