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Best Available Techniques, BAT. Environmental authorities have worked internationally to achieve a standard that describes the best available technology (BAT: Best Available Technique) to various industries. In the Paris Commission, PAR-COM, which aims to prevent pollution of the North Sea from land-based sources, attempts have been made to define a "best available technology" for the textile industry. After have being raised several times at a European level, work has resulted in a recommendation for discharges and emissions from textile wet processing industries. Reference values are primarily of metals, halogenated organic compounds and pesticides but also of oxygen demanding substances. All criteria have specific test methods that are required. Rules applied in full force in January 1999 for new facilities. For older, existing facilities, which implements changes that have negative impact on the environment and humans the rules came to full effect in January 2002. Existing facilities has been given eight years’s until the changes should be in full effect. Environmental Protection Agency (Naturvårdsverket) and other relevant environmental authorities around the North Sea has been involved in drafting the recommendations, which means that the textile industry must adapt its standards to the best applicable technology level. Rules also apply to the industry that does not have direct or indirect discharge into the North Sea. Countries around the Baltic Sea have agreed on a similar commission known as HELCOM (Helsinki Commission). Recommendations of this Commission are very similar to those of PARCOM. Standards for best available technology for the textile industry are now developed by the EU.
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- Information om BAT: European Integrated Pollution Prevention Control Bureau
- Nedladdning av aktuella BAT-dokument