CELEX: 51985PC0047
Language: en
Date: 1985-02-18
Title: AMENDED PROPOSAL FOR A COUNCIL DIRECTIVE ON THE LIMITATION OF EMISSIONS OF POLLUTANTS INTO THE AIR FROM LARGE COMBUSTION PLANTS

No C 76/6                            Official Journal of the European Communities                                22.3.85
                         Article 10                                   (b) the financial contribution by the Member
                                                                          State on the territory of which the projects are
The following paragraph shall be added to Article 17                      to be carried out must be not less than 5 % ;
 of Regulation (EEC) No 355/77:
    '4.    As regards aid from the Fund for measures                  (c) the aid granted by the Fund shall not exceed
    concerning the improvement of facilities for the                      60 °/o for the projects referred to in this
    processing and marketing of the products of the                       paragraph.'
    wine sector referred to in the first indent of
    Article 1 (2) of Regulation (EEC) N o 0000/85                                        Article 11
    and with the exception of those measures which               This Regulation shall enter into force on the third
    are carried out in the "Greater Athens" area, the            day following its publication in the Official Journal of
    rates referred to in paragraph 2 shall be as                  the European Communities.
    follows:
    (a) the financial contribution of the beneficiary            This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and
         must be not less than 20 % ;                            directly applicable in all Member States.
               Amended proposal for a Council Directive on the limitation of emissions of pollutants
                                      into the air from large combustion plants (')
                                                     COM(85)     47final
               (Submitted by the Commission to the Council pursuant to the second paragraph of Article
                                       149 of the EEC Treaty on 25 February 1985)
                                                       (85/C 76/03)
                    ORIGINAL PROPOSAL                                                AMENDED PROPOSAL
                        Article 2 (4)                                                   Article 2 (4)
'Air Pollution' means the introduction by man,                   'Air Pollution' means the introduction by man,
directly or indirectly, of substances or energy into the         directly or indirectly, of substances or energy into the
air resulting in deleterious effects of such a nature as         air resulting in deleterious effects of such a nature as
to endanger human health, harm living resources and              to endanger human health, harm living resources and
ecosystems and tangible property and impair or                   ecosystems and material property and impair or
interfere with amenities and other legitimate uses of            interfere with amenities and other legitimate uses of
the environment.                                                 the environment.
                        Article 2 (5)                                                   Article 2 (5)
'Operator' means any person who operates the                     'Operator' means any legal or natural person who
combustion plant or who has decisive economic                    operates the combustion plant or who has decisive
power over it.                                                   economic power over it.
                        Article 2 (9)                                                   Article 2 (9)
'Multi-fuel firing unit' means any combustion plant              'Multi-fuel firing' means any combustion plant which
which may be fired simultaneously by two or more                 may be fired simultaneously or alternately by two or
types of fuel.                                                   more types of fuel.
O COM(85) 704 final.
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                   ORIGINAL PROPOSAL                                              AMENDED PROPOSAL
                     Article 2 (11)                                                 Article 2 (11)
'New Plant' means any combustion plant for which               'New Plant' means any combustion plant for which
the (partial or full) building permission or, in the           an operating licence is granted after 1 January 1985.
absence of such a procedure, the operating licence, is
granted after 1 January 1985.
                     Article 2 (12)                                                 Article 2 (12)
'Existing Plant' means any combustion plant the                'Existing Plant' means any combustion plant for
building and/or operation of which were/was auth-              which an operating licence was granted before 1
orized before 1 January 1985, or which was built               January 1985.
before that date.
                      Article 4 (2)                                                  Article 4 (2)
In the licensing document, Member States shall                 In the licensing document, Member States shall
provide for appropriate requirements to allow, where           provide for appropriate requirements to allow for the
necessary, for the subsequent adaptation of the plants         subsequent adaptation of the plants to technical
to technological progress made in connection with              progress made in connection with the reduction of
the reduction of the emissions covered by this                 the emissions covered by this Directive and the
Directive.                                                     changing scientific nature and scale of the environ-
                                                               mental implications.
                      Article 5 (1)                                                  Article 5 (1)
Existing plants partially or completely shut down              Existing plants partially or completely shut down
under the national programmes before 31 December               under the national programmes after 1 January 1985
1995 can be brought back into operation only if their          can be brought back into operation only if their
emission levels remain within the limit values set out         emission levels remain within the limit values set out
in Annex I.                                                    in Annex I.
                     Article 12 (1)                                                 Article 12 (1)
Where a combustion plant is extended, the competent            Where a combustion plant is extended, the competent
authorities shall base the requirements regarding the          authorities shall base the requirements regarding the
limitation of emissions with respect to the new part of        limitation of emissions with respect to the new part of
the plant on the rated heat output of the entire plant.        the plant on the provisions of this Directive.
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                                                                         ANNEX I
                  Emission limit values for dust, sulphur dioxide and oxides of nitrogen in waste gases under standard
                                                                         conditions
                                                                            Emission limit values in mg/m 3 for:
                   Plant size                                        Sulphur dioxide (')                          Oxides of nitrogen (2)
   Type of fuel
                    (MWth)                   Dust                                    After
                                                              From 1. 1. 1985                           From 1. 1. 1985            After 31. 12. 1995
                                                                                 31. 12. 1995
Solid                > 300                                        < 400 O          < 250 (4)               < 650 O            '          < 200 (4)
                                                                                            4
                   300-100                   < 50               < 1200           < 1 200 ( )               < 800
                     < 100                                      < 2 000          < 2 000 (4)         < 800 as a rule but          < 400 as a rule (")
                                                                                                     < 1 300 for pulver-          but
                                                                                                   " ized    hard     coal      • < 8 0 0 for pulverized
                                                                                                     firing with extrac-          hard coal firing with
                                                                                                     tion of fused ash            extraction of fused
                                                                                                                                  ash
Liquid               > 300                                        < 400            <250
                   300-100                   < 50               < 1700          < 1 700                    < 450                         < 150
                     < 100                                      < 1 700         < 1 700
Gaseous              > 300          < 5 as a rule but              < 35 as a rule but
                   300-100          < 10 for blast                < 100 for coke oven gas
                                                                                                   '       < 350                •        < 100
                                    furnace gas and               and
                     < 100
                                                                  < 5 for liquified gas
                                    < 50 for gases pro-
                                   duced by the steel
                                   industry which can
                                   be used elsewhere
(') Account should be taken of the proportion of sulphur trioxide in the waste gas.
(2) Expressed in terms of nitrogen dioxide. Nitrogen dioxide need not be measured continuously if it accounts for less than 5 °/o of total emission
    of nitrogen oxides. The proportion of nitrogen dioxide should then be simply calculated.
(3) This limit value applies to all fluidized bed plants irrespective of thermal capacity.
(") For fluidized bed combustion plants the Commission will make appropriate proposals later.