1. MINIMUM CRITERIA Project Manager Marianne Lindström, Bulgaria 9.4.2003 SYKE, Expert Services, Environmental Management Division

2. MY PRESENTATION  Implementation of the recommendation  Community/Finnish legislation  Subject to permit or licensing  Permit procedure  Finnish industrial control  Negotiations and meetings  Responsibility of authority/operator  Cases of non-compliance  Conclusions

3. Implementation of the recommendation (2001/331/EC)  Staff data  Authority´s role and performance  Implementation of plan for inspection  Details of inspections: site visits...  Brief data on the degree of compliance  Actions in case of complaints, incidents and non-compliance  Evaluation of the plan  Recommendations for future plans

4. Community/Finnish legislation  IPPC, Seveso, VOC  Water quality legislation:  Dangerous substances  Groundwater protection  Urban water treatment  Waste legislation:  Waste  Hazardous waste  Landfill of waste  Air pollution  All permit or licensing requirements of polluting activities can be found in the quite new Finnish Environmental Protection Act and the Finnish Environmental protection Decree (1.3.2000)  Some waste requirements are in the Finnish Waste Act (1987)

5. Subject to permit or licensing A permit is required for activities that pose a threat of environmental pollution. An environmental permit is also required for:  1) activities that may cause pollution of a water body;  2) conducting wastewater that may lead to the pollution of a channel or reservoir;  3) activities that may place an unreasonable burden on the surroundings; Section 17 of the Adjoining Properties Act (26/1920)

6. Subject to permit  4) institutional or commercial recovery or  disposal of waste; and  5) test drilling for oil or gas in Finnish  territorial waters and the exploitation of the deposit  and for other related activities. A permit is required for any alteration of an activity that increases emissions or the effects thereof or any other material alteration of an activity for which a permit has already been granted. No permit is required, however, if the alteration does not increase environmental impact or risks and the alteration does not require revision of the permit.

7. Permit and inspection authorities Permit Authority (3) Regional Environmental Centres (13) Municipalities (450) Supreme Administrative Court Vaasa Administrative Court PermitsPermits and inspection

8. Permit procedure APPLICATION INFORMATION STATEMENTREMINDER REJOINDER CONSIDERATION PERMIT INFORMATION LEGAL PERMIT COMPLAINTS

9. Control according to the EPA  Operator controls himself: self-monitoring  Control plan in the application  Authority accepts or modifies the plan  In the permit are stated the control conditions (control of use, emissions, effects)  Control after the function has stopped  Measurements, tests and investigations shall be done in a qualified, reliable and appropriate way

10. Finnish industrial control  Planning important, yearly plans since 2000 sent to Ministry of the Environment  Resources: control team with experts on air, water and waste and measurements  Different kind of controls:  routine controls  special controls  negotiations and  meetings

11. Routine controls  Yearly control of large industries according to the plan  Inspectors with special knowledge  The operator is informed beforehand  Focus on some issues:  possible problems  environmentally important issues  requirements of the permits

12. Special controls  In connection with new investments  Control measurements by the REC´s laboratory  If disturbances occur in the function  Control because of complaints  Focus normally on one actual topic  Control is done when it is needed

13. Negotiations and meetings  Usually no site visits  General topics: investments, permit situation, disturbances  Usually concerns future situation  Carried out many times a year  Focus on actual topics  Minutes of the meeting signed by authority and operator

14. Responsibilities of authority/operator  Operator responsible for making the application and he should be aware of the demands in the law  Authority checks it and can ask for more detailed information  Authority grants the permit  Operator makes the plan for monitoring that the authority checks and accept  Operator responsible for self-monitoring  Authority checks the monitoring results  Discussions between authority and operator crucial

15. In cases of non-compliance  Authority denies the operation, penalty conditional fine  Authority shuts up the installation, threat of interruption  Authority orders investigation of environmental effects, threat of commissioning  Authority notifies the police  The police notifies the prosecutor

16. Control of emissions and effects on the environment Plan for inspection: - control of emissions - control of use - control of effects INSPECTOR Plan for inspection Controls of operator Production and emissions VAHTI: monitoring and reports Permit LAW

17. VAHTI-information system (supervision and permitting)

18. Conclusions  Requirements of IPPC Directive implemented  Finnish EPA has a broader scope than IPPC  Good practice: applications form and guidance in Internet electronic plans for inspections (VAHTI) reporting emissions electronically minutes of meetings between operator and authority