IPPC Directive - the emission cage
21 October 2008, 11.00 a.m.
Centrum Prasowe Foksal - Dom Dziennikarza [Press Agency Foksal - Journalist House], ul. Foksal 3/5, Warsaw
Most countries have traditional, sector-based legislation, focused on the individual domains of the economy. We know, however, that the economy is a set of communicating vessels. Things are similar with CO2 emissions, where attempts to reduce them in one area must lead to the restructuring of many other fields and areas.
The IPPC Directive, which combines 7 directives concerning, among others, large emission sources and industrial waste, is intended to integrate the prevention and control of air, water and soil pollution. This comprehensive approach leads to pollution reduction while allowing to avoid situations in which the reduction of pollution from one source results in increased emissions from another source. With the sector-based approach to the problem, such control was difficult and often the actual potential benefits and risks associated with specific actions would go unnoticed.
If the IPPC Directive is adopted in the proposed wording, environmental regulations will become more stringent in the coming years. If it is passed next year, it will become effective in 2012, but entrepreneurs should already take account of the associated costs in their development strategies for the near future. By holding the seminar, we would like to initiate a broad discussion with the participation of representatives of the European Commission, the Polish Government, embassies and consulates based in Poland, as well as representatives of the energy sector, various industrial branches and the media, so that measures to implement the IPPC Directive are taken in an informed manner and with full awareness of the consequences of the process.
Among the guests invited to participate in the debate there are:
- Zbigniew Kamienski, Energy Department Director, Ministry of Economy;
- Malgorzata Typko, Deputy Director of Department of Environmental Impact Assessment, Ministry of the Environment;
- Tomasz Podgajniak, Chairman, Advisory Team for IPPC Directive of the Minister of the Environment;
- Proffesor Krzysztof Zmijewski, Green Effort Group Coordinator, President of Social Consultative Board for Energy;
- Proffesor Janusz Lewandowski, Warsaw Technical University;
- Wieslaw Jamiolkowski - Director, Vattenfall Heat Poland S.A.;
- Wojciech Lubiewa - Wielzynski, President of Board, Polish Chamber of Chemical Industry;
- Franciszek Pchelka, Deputy Technical Director, Economic Society Polish Power Plants.
The debate will be chaired by Andrzej Werkowski, President of the Board, CO2 Forum of Sectoral Economical Organisation.
The meeting will have the form of discussion based on brief position statements by the invited guests.