Directive 96/61/EC of 24 September 1996 on the Integrated Pollution Prevention and Control, better known by its acronym as IPPC, was to apply the precautionary principle to the most polluting industrial activities establishing a system of administrative action to reduce pollution in an integrated way, considering all impacts on the environment as a whole, and not by sector, as has been the case until then This Directive, codified by Directive 2008/1/EC, mandatory to environmental bodies in the EU Member States to issue...Read more