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TABLE 6: The main implementation and investment implications of the air directives
DIRECTIVE IMPLEMENTATION
IMPLICATIONS
INVESTMENT IMPLICATIONS LIKELY INVESTOR
The Air Quality Designation of the competent Establishment of air quality monitoring Local and regional
Framework authorities and bodies responsible equipment and modelling capacity governments,
Directive for implementing the directives industry
(96/62/EC) In areas of bad ambient air quality, it
Assessment of ambient air quality might be difficult to identify investment
projects before conducting the
Ensuring the accuracy of measuring
devices and their compatibility
assessments.
with European quality requirements, Public and private sector investment
assuring overall standards is needed in areas where pollutant levels
are above permitted norms in order to
Development of a system for assessing bring down emissions of polluting
the quality of ambient air based
on common methods and criteria
substances and achieve compliance
Directive on
Development of a system for gathering,
reporting and publishing information,
including dissemination to the public
See the Air Quality Framework See the Air Quality Framework Directive As above
Ambient Air
Quality and
Cleaner Air for
Europe
(2008/50/EC)
Directive above above
Large Ensuring that existing plants are Investments should focus on introducing Industry, energy
Combustion modified to comply with required new processes for cleaner technologies utilities
Plants emission levels and that new plants (retrofitting) and introducing air
Directive
(2001/80/EC)
comply with specified emission limits pollution control systems in installations
Designating institutions responsible Installations put into operation after
for identifying all installations falling 1987 must comply with the directive
under the directive, separately for
old installations (in operation
before 1987) and newer ones
as of the day of EU accession
Integrated
Establishing a system for inspection
and monitoring
Setting up or restructuring a Investment costs related to enforcement Industry, agro-
Pollution body (e.g. a competent include mainly the setting up and running industry and
Prevention and authority) and agencies of the necessary institutional framework waste utilities
Control (IPPC) and authorities, the development of
Directive Requires the identification of guidance documents, the training
(2008/1/EC) installations requiring control
by the IPPC and the assessment
of their current situation
of staff and inspectors etc.
S T R AT E G I C M O V E S
Guidance documents on IPPC
principles and the use of BAT
must be provided
Source: REC, 2005; REC and Umweltbundesamt GmbH, 2008; and EC COM (2001) 304