Environmental protectionEnvironmental protection

Requirements Requirements regarding environmental protectionregarding environmental protection

Voivodeship Inspectorate of Environmental Protection Voivodeship Inspectorate of Environmental Protection

in Szczecinin Szczecin

May 2005May 2005

Fundamental Legal Act:

Environmental Protection Lawdated 27 April 2001(Dz.U. 62 item 627

with further changes)

• Installation is a stationery technical device or set of devices connected technologically, as well as buildings not being technical devices.

• As a subject using the environment can be understood an enterpreneur in a meaning of Economic Activity Law as well as a private person who is not an enterpreneur using the environment in the range required by the permit

Definitions

• Emission standards are the limit emission values• Air quality standards are i.e. limit levels of certain

substances in the air• Odorous air quality standards are limit levels of

odorous substances in the air (not defined in Polish law)

• In case where there are no emission standards nor limit levels of substances in the air emission shouldn’t cause violation of so called reference values

Definitions

General rules indicated by Polish Law

• The subject starting the activity, which can have negative effect on the environment is obliged to prevent it

• The subject causing the pollution to the environment is obliged to pay costs of removing the effects of this pollution

• Policies, strategies,plans or programs should include rules of environmental protection and sustainable development

Some general rules resulting from Environmental Protection Law:

• Air protection - sustaining of levels of substances in the air on the concentration not higher than limit value

• Air protection – decreasing of levels of substances in the air at least to limit values when they are not retained

General requirements of environmental protection in the range of air protection:

• Introducing gases or dust into the air requires either the notification or permit (integrated or sectoral)

• Permit for pollution emission into the air is granted after submitting application

• The body of environmental protection is starosta or voivode

• Use of the environment is involved with the fee or raised fees in case of lack of emission permit

• Exceeding of the emission allowed in the permit causes fining by the Voivodeship Inspector of Environmental Protection

General requirements of environmental protection in the range of air protection:

Emission standards are set for the following cases:• Energetistic burning of fuels• Burning of the municipal or hazardous

wastes• Production or processing of asbestos

products• Titanium dioxide production• Use of organic solvents

• on the fees for use of the environment

• on the list of installations requiring notification

• on the limit levels of substances in the ambient air

• on the assesment of levels of substances in the ambient air (monitoring)

• on the information about the use of environmnet

Executive acts to Environmental Protection Law regarding air protection:

• on the reference values

• on the results of measurements

• on the information passed to the environmental protection bodies

• on the emission standards from installation

• on the installation not requiring the permit

Executive acts to Environmental Protection Law regarding air protection:

Monitoring of the environment

Diagnosis of the environment based on assessment system described in the law leads to the need of preparation of compliance programs where environmental standards are violated

Subsystem of air quality - Aim

Documentation of the information regarding levels of substances in the air in relation to the air quality standards for all areas in voivodeship, identification of areas requiring improvement of air quality, monitoring of compliance programs.

Subsystem of air quality Basic legal acts

• Legal act dated 27 April 2001 – Environmental Potection Law, art. 87 – 95 with further changes Legal act dated 27 April 2001 – Environmental Potection Law with executive acts transposed EU Directives into Polish law

• Regulation of the Minister of Environment dated 6 June 2002 on the assessment of levels of substances i the ambient air – methods of assessment

• Regulation of the Minister of Environment dated 6 June 2002 on limit values of certain substances in the ambient air, alert therholds of certain substances in the air and margins of tolerance of the limit values of certain substances –criteria of assessment

Air quality framework directive

• Framework Directive 96/62/EC 

• first Daughter Directive 1999/30/EC

• second Daughter Directive 2000/69/EC

• third Daughter Directive 2002/3/EC

• fourth Daughter Directive 2004/107/EC

Subsystem of air quality Methods of assessment

• According to the law system of air quality assessment is based on automatic or manual measurements, indicating methods, calculations of pollution distributions and estimation methods carried out for current assessment purposes

Preliminary air quality assessment

• The methods of assessment used in certain areas are chosen on the base of levels of pollutants in these areas. Assessment of levels of substances in the air is made every 5 years by the Voivodeship Inspector of Envirnmental Protection.

Preliminary air quality assessment

• In years 2001-2002 the assessment of pollutants concentrations was carried out for such areas as poviats or aglomeration with inhabitans above 250 thusands (21 areas, including 18 poviats and 3 city poviats (Koszalin, Szczecin, Świnoujście).

• This assessment covered substances listed in regulation of the Minitser of Environment on limit values of certain substances in the ambinet air: benzene, nitrogen dioxide, sulphur dioxide, particulate matter PM10 (particles with diameter below 10 micrones), lead in sustained particles, carbon monoxide and ozone.

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