“ The waste disposal market has changed dramatically” - Interseroh

Europe. Interseroh Austria also supports the efforts of
well-known manufacturers for more competition on the
household market and consistently calls for opening up
of the household collection system to competition.
An important factor here is the clear commitment of
customers to the international ALBA Group: the number
of customers and tonnages of materials pooled
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and marketed has risen consistently every year since
the group joined the market in Austria.
The company’s clear aim is to maintain this success in
the coming years as well.
Please contact Franz Sauseng or Martin Ulke if you
have any questions.
New regulations in 2013:
action needs to be taken now
Some directives of importance to the recycling and waste disposal industry
have receded somewhat into the background because of the large
media presence of the Closed Substance Cycle and Waste Management
Act. To enable companies in the ALBA Group to make the necessary preparations,
CF Technics would like to inform them of the main changes.
Licensing law in Germany and the EU is about to face
decisive changes: The background to this is formed by
the EU Industrial Emissions Directive, which came into
force on January 7, 2011 and which must be translated
into national law within two years. To this end, a number
of German standards are to be changed, among them the
Water Resources Act, the law on environmental impact
assessment (EIA) and, of central importance for plant
permits, the Federal Immissions Protection Act.
It is already relatively clear now in which three areas these
changes will have an effect as from January 7, 2013:
1. Protection of vested interests will be softened: this
means that the state of the art of waste treatment
facilities will in future be defined and published at EU
level in the form of BAT conclusions (BAT = best
available technology).
2. Stricter monitoring duties will come into force: the
period between two on-site inspections of licensed
plants by the supervisory authorities will be defined in
detail.
3. Status quo report in the case of changes to large
processing plants: of considerable significance here is
the obligation to attach a so-called status quo report on
the plant site to the application.
In future, therefore, an application for a permit will be
incomplete in the case of certain facilities if an expert
has not analysed soil and groundwater samples and
this analysis has not been attached to the application in
report form. Plant operators in the ALBA Group will not be
able to escape changes to the law in plant operation if
their plants exceed a certain minimum threshold. “Where
a company is affected and will have to submit a statusquo
report in future, Corporate Function (CF) Technics recommends
the company brings planned changes forwards so
that the application is submitted in the first half of 2012,”
says Michael Blöcher from ALBA Group CF Technics. In
this way it will be possible to avoid the changes coming
into effect on January 7, 2013
if the application procedure has already passed significant
hurdles by this point in time.
If you have any questions about the potential effect of
these new regulations regarding your company, please
contact Michael Blöcher and Andreas Wendt.
AUSTRIA AT A GLANCE
Area: 83,878.99 km²
Population: 8,405,500
Capital: Vienna
Official language:
German (regionally: Croatian,
Slovenian, Hungarian)
Form of government:
parliamentary federal republic
Currency: euro