18.05- 9.06.2024
Workshops & Summer festival « Cultivate your future » in Haut-Rhin
Participate to AIPEVI workshop in Saint Louis (68) on Garden optimization & Water management (see details here) and subscribe for the summer festival « Cultivate your future » which will take place in various locations in Haut Rhin (primary Mulhouse and close-by the Swiss/German border). See details about the festival here.
29.03.2024
Launch new events in Haut-Rhin and website updated with information on co-founders, partners, events, possibility to register to « AIPEVI Discovery Program 2024 » and key events such spring workshops and summer festival in Haut Rhin.
- AIPEVI organise « Cultivate Your Future Festival » as part of « National Agriculture Days » in between 7-9 June 2024. See more details on the event page
- AIPEVI is launching spring workshop on « Water management and garden optimization « . See more details on the event page
12.03.2024
The Parliament adopted the deal with member states on the revision of the IED: the new rules will reduce harmful emissions from industrial installations and large pig and poultry farms to protect human health and the environment.
🏭 Industrial installations
The new rules will make it mandatory to set the strictest achievable emissions levels for the sectors covered. To combat water scarcity, environmental performance targets will become obligatory for water consumption. For waste, resource efficiency, energy efficiency and raw material use, targets will be within a range and for new techniques, they will be indicative.
The revised IED will now also cover extractive industry installations (mines) and large installations manufacturing batteries.
🐖 🐔 Livestock farms
Co-legislators agreed to extend IED measures to pig farms with more than 350 livestock units (LSU). Farms raising pigs in an extensive or organic manner, and outside for a significant amount of time in a year, are excluded. For poultry, the directive applies to farms with laying hens with more than 300 LSU and for farms with broilers with more than 280 LSU. For farms rearing both pigs and poultry, the limit will be 380 LSU.
The Commission will assess, by 31 December 2026, whether there is a need to further address the emissions from rearing livestock, including from cattle, and a reciprocity clause to ensure producers outside the EU meet requirements similar to EU rules when exporting to the EU.
👥 Public participation, penalties and compensation
Transparency and public participation in relation to the licensing, operation and control of regulated installations will be improved as the European Pollutant Release and Transfer Register will be transformed into an EU Industrial Emissions Portal where citizens can access data on all EU permits and local polluting activities.
Companies that do not comply can face penalties of at least 3% of the operator’s annual EU turnover for the most serious infringements. EU countries shall give citizens affected by non-compliance the right to claim compensation for damages to their health.
⏭ Next steps
The law now also has to be adopted by Council, before being published in the EU Official Journal and entering into force 20 days later. Member states will then have 22 months to comply with this directive.