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Environmental studies and permitting

  • Environmental Sustainability

  • Strategic Environmental Assessment and Environmental report

  • Environmental Project for Construction Sites

  • Pre-Feasibility Studies

  • Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA)

  • Environmental Implication Assessment

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Some typology of Plants are required, for their operation, to respect a set of emission permissions.
The term emission is defined as the direct or indirect release of substances, vibrations, heat or noise from individual or diffuse sources of the Plant into the air, water or land. The law prescribes emission thresholds above which an Integrated Environmental Authorization (IEA) procedure is mandatory.

Different companies need an IEA authorization to comply with the principles of Integrated Pollution Prevention and Control (IPPC) stated by the European Union as of the Directive 96/61/EC now merged into the European Directive 2010/75/EU.
In Italian legislation, IEA authorization is compulsory for the activities listed in Annex VIII (Part II) of D.Lgs.152/2006 (recently amended by D.Lgs 46/2014), including:

• Energy activities;
• Production and processing of metals;
• Mineral industry;
• Chemical industry;
• Waste management
• Other activities (paper industries, textile and tanning activities, slaughterhouses, poultry flocks and pig herds, carbon production, …)

The Single Environmental Authorization (SEA) is a provision established by Italian DPR 59 of March 13, 2013.

SEA procedure incorporates in a single document several environmental permits required by sector regulations.
DPR 59 identifies a core of seven permissions that can be incorporated in the AUA study, with the possible inclusion of other permits which may be requested by regional legislation:

a) Waste water discharges as of D.Lgs. 152/2006;
b) Agronomic use of livestock manure, of waste waters from oil mills and of waste waters as referred in article 112 of D.Lgs. 152/2006;
c) Atmospheric emissions caused by plants referred to in article 269 of D.Lgs. 152/2006 (ordinary authorization);
d) Atmospheric emissions caused by facilities and activities referred to in article 272 of D.Lgs. 152/2006 (general permissions);
e) Noise impact as prescribed in Law 447/1995;
f) Purification process sludge utilization in agriculture as in article 9 of D.Lgs. 99/1992;
g) Disposal of non-hazardous waste carried out in the place of production as referred in article 215 of D.Lgs. 152/2006 and/or Waste recovery activities as in article 216 of D.Lgs. 152/2006.

SEA procedure is applied to production facilities not subject to IEA and also to small and medium enterprises according to DM of April 18, 2005.