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With regard to emissions monitoring and pollution control there are organisations and documents far too numerous to list here. We have, however, highlighted a few key ones we believe will be of interest for readers.
Documents
• For legislation pertaining to industrial pollution control, see http://ec.europa.eu/environment/enlarg/handbook/pollution.pdf
• Environment Agency for monitoring technical guidance notes http://www.environment-agency.gov.uk/business/regulation/31831.aspx
• MCERTS is the Environment Agency’s Monitoring Certification Scheme. It provides the framework for businesses to meet quality requirements. Documents pertaining to air, soil and water monitoring in the UK are here: http://www.environment-agency.gov.uk/business/regulation/31829.aspx
• The IPPC (Integrated Pollution Prevention and Control) Directive: http://ec.europa.eu/environment/air/pollutants/stationary/ippc/index.htm
• Joint Research Centre’s (JRC) reference documents that have been drawn (or are planned to be drawn) as part of the exchange of information carried out in the framework of Article 13(1) of the Industrial Emissions Directive (IED). The table gives links to BREFs, as well as a few other reference documents that have been adopted under both the IPPC Directive and the IED. http://eippcb.jrc.es/reference/
• Industrial Emissions Directive (IED) via the Official Journal of the European Commission (OJEC): http://eur-lex.europa.eu/LexUriServ/LexUriServ.do?uri=OJ%3AL%3A2010%3A334%3A0017%3A0119%3Aen%3APDF
Organisations
• STA (Source Testing Association). The Source Testing Association (STA) is a non-profit making technical trade association which was established in 1995 and has a corporate membership of more than 200 companies from process operators, regulators, equipment suppliers and test laboratories. The STA is committed to the advancement of the science and practise of emission monitoring and to develop and maintain a high quality of service to customers. http://www.s-t-a.org/
• The Vienna Convention for the Protection of the Ozone Layer and its Montreal Protocol on Substances that Deplete the Ozone Layer are dedicated to the protection of the earth’s ozone layer. See the Ozone Secretariat of the United Nations Environment programme here: http://ozone.unep.org/new_site/en/index.php
• UNIDO (United Nations Industrial Development Organization) http://www.unido.org
• European Environment Agency, (EEA) is an agency of the European Union. Its task is to provide sound, independent information on the environment. It is a major information source for those involved in developing, adopting, implementing and evaluating environmental policy, and also for the general public. Currently, the EEA has 32 member countries. http://www.eea.europa.eu/
• UKAS (The United Kingdom Accreditation Service). In the UK, UKAS is the sole national accreditation body recognised by government to assess, against internationally agreed standards, organisations that provide certification, testing, inspection and calibration services. http://www.ukas.com/
• E-PRTR (European Pollutant Release and Transfer Register). The E-PRTR is the new Europe-wide register that provides easily accessible key environmental data from industrial facilities in European Union Member States and in Iceland, Liechtenstein, Norway, Serbia and Switzerland. It replaces and improves upon the previous European Pollutant Emission Register (EPER). The new register contains data reported annually by some 28,000 industrial facilities covering 65 economic activities across Europe. For each facility, information is provided concerning the amounts of pollutant releases to air, water and land as well as off-site transfers of waste and of pollutants in waste water from a list of 91 key pollutants including heavy metals, pesticides, greenhouse gases and dioxins for the year 2007, 2008 and 2009. http://prtr.ec.europa.eu
• IPPC (Integrated Pollution Prevention Control). The Integrated Pollution Prevention and Control regulations employ an integrated approach to control the environmental impacts of certain industrial activities. It involves determining the appropriate controls for industry to protect the environment through a single permitting process. http://ec.europa.eu/environment/air/pollutants/stationary/ippc/index.htm
• ISO (International Standards Organization). ISO is the world’s largest developer of voluntary International Standards, which give state of the art specifications for products, services and good practise, and help to make industry more efficient and effective. Developed through global consensus, they help to break down barriers to international trade. Since being founded in 1947, ISO has published more than 19,000 International Standards covering almost all aspects of technology and business. http://www.iso.org/iso/home.html
• Official Journal of the European Commission (OJEC) http://www.ojec.com/
Published: 03rd Jul 2013 in AWE International
