Italian IRI Scheme A national peer review
IMPEL project meeting:
Results of the IMPEL Review Initiatives (IRI) 07/08 June 2017
Location – Brussels Giuseppe Sgorbati - Arpa Lombardia
Fabio Carella - Arpa Lombardia
Background
Some relevant outcomes (opportunities for development) of the IRI that took place in Como, Italy between 21-24 may 2012 at ARPA Lombardia:
•Any violation of an IPPC permit has to be sent immediately to the prosecutor. In some European member states there is a more flexible system to deal with violation of IPPC permits which is svery strict on criminal breaches and less strict on minor breaches.
•Time limited permits (mostly 5 years) differ from other European countries which tend to be permits for life.
•Consider using IMPEL risk assessment for setting inspection priorities.
•ARPA are aware of the fact that having the same team leader going to the same companies all the time carries to risk of too strong involvment and potentially «issue blindness».
•It could be considered to give higher priority to getting other regions at the same level of expertise on IPPC inspections.
•It could be considered to compare permits for companies with plants also in other regions in order to obtain a level playing field.
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Improved Work in
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The Project
Overview of the situation and best practices in environmental inspections in Italy
Timespan: 2015-2016
Comparison among the Italian Environment Agencies in programming, organizing and performing
environmental inspections in IED installations
The Project
8 agencies 11 experts
6 plenary meetings
The Project
Collecting information on IED inspections among italian agencies
Producing a draft handbook for peer review in the italian environment system
Carrying out the first national peer review on IED inspections at a regional EPA
Producing the final report and disseminating the results
at national and international level
The Questionnaire
0. Agency data
1. Identification of the inspection team
2. Inspecion plans and inspection programmes
3. Duration of the inspections
4. Agencies’s internal procedures
5. Assessing operator’s self monitoring data
6. Assessing operator’s information duties
7. Sampling and chemical analyses performed by the agencies within the scope of the inspection activities
8. Assessing provisions and operator’s duties in the following environmental areas: wastewater, air emissions, waste management, noise, odours, soil and grounwater protection, etc.
9. Assessing BAT implementation
10.Promotional activities for compliance and continuos improvement
11. Recommendations for the competent authorities
12. Baseline Report
13. Emmission Trading
14. Seveso Installations
15. Installations for intensive livestock farming (IED Annex I category 6.6)
16. Economic effect for the agencies deriving from the implementation of the inspection programmes
16 Sections
150 Questions
• 19 Agencies out of 21 have answered the questionnaire
• the national Agency ISPRA has answered the questionnaire
• the regional Agencies answering the
qustionnaire sum up some 7.800
municipalities
• the regional Agencies answering the
qustionnaire cover more than 6.000 IPPC installations of
regional level
The Questionnaire
The Handbook
• officially approved by the national council of the italian EPAs on March 15th 2016
• developed on the pattern of the IMPEL IRI SCHEME
• field tested during the first national peer review in october 2016
• …unfortunately not translated in english till now…..
The final report
• all the questionnarie feed back transposed into diagrams
• comments and conclusions to each section
• summary conclusion and main findings
• SWOT analysis on the italian IED inspection system
• final reccomendations
• approved by the national council of the italian EPAs on May 15th 2017
• to be published soon
The first italian peer review on IED inspection
• held in Arpa Campania from 4th to 6th October 2016
• 7 experts in the project team from 5 agencies
• more than 30 experts from Arpa Campania
• 4 topics:
legislative and regulatory framework
role of Arpa Campania in the permitting procedure
organizational framework
technical framework
• 1 case study: Acerra WTE plant
• 11 presentations by EPAs experts both from project team and Arpa Campania
• conclusions and main findings for each topic
• final report approved by the participants and by the national council of the italian EPAs
• to be published soon
What next
(proposed follow up at national and IMPEL level)
WHY NEXT
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HOW MAY IMPEL HELP IN THE HOMOGENEIZATION OF INSPECTION ACTIVITY?
SUPPORTNG
IN FINE TUNING A NATIONAL PEER REVIEW MODEL, TAKING STOCK OF ITS LARGE EXPERIENCE IN IRI
We envisaged an IMPEL support in this activity for the first time in spring 2015, but we decided to carry out in advance the national survey on IED inspections in order to gain the necessary kwowledge on the situation in our Nation and make a first experience of the actual problems one could face during a peer review.
Now we have the availability of the basic information to dialogue about
something existing, although in a preliminar form, and not just about a
hypothesis.
“Establishment of the National Network System
for environment protection
(SNPA)
and discipline of Superior Institute for
Protection and Environmental Research (ISPRA)”
Legge 28 giugno 2018 n. 132, pubblicata sulla G.U. in data 18
luglio 2016
A new environmental protection system aimed at delivering homgeneous environmental
protection all over Italy
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Central topic in the reform of “SNPA”:
“Essential Levels of Services for Environmental Protection (LEPTA)”
as the minimum amount of environmental services that the National Sytem has to evenly deliver in each Italian Region, as a relevant part of the constitutionally
guaranteed right of citizens to a healthy environment
Great accent on:
homogeneization of the technical processes for the
delivery of the technical
services
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