Review of integrated environmental authorisation.
Review of integrated environmental authorisation.
Authorise, for the sole purpose of protecting the environment and people's health, and without prejudice to the other licences or authorisations that may be required in accordance with current legislation, the modification of the operating conditions of all or part of a publicly or privately owned facility provided for in an integrated environmental authorisation previously granted to incorporate into it:
- The revision of the emission limit values imposed or the adoption of new ones.
- The best available techniques, in order to improve the levels of emissions or other types of environmental advances that are established in the BAT conclusions approved by the European Commission periodically and that must be applied within a maximum period of four years from their approval.
- Other production techniques that guarantee the safety of the operation of the process.
- The conditions required by water legislation, when circumstances arise that justify it, in the opinion of the basin organisation.
- The new requirements that are incorporated into the sectoral legislation.
General information
- Regional ministry
- Consejeria De Fomento, Vivienda, Ordenacion Del Territorio Y Medio Ambiente
- Governing board
- Direc. General De Medio Ambiente Y Cambio Climatico (DIR3: A06045079)
- Classification
- Authorizations, licenses, concessions and approvals
- Subject(s)
- Environment
- Starting way
- Ex officio
- Target
- Citizens
- Legal entities, self-employed persons and registered professionals
- Administration and public employees
- Subject to fees
- No
- Languages in which the procedure can be completed
- Spanish
- Allow power of attorney
- Yes
- Links to web pages with specific information
Requirements
Requirement from the competent administrative body to the owner of the installation to submit all the documentary information required, which may include:
- Documentation required by water legislation for discharge authorisations into continental waters and by coastal legislation and other regional regulations applicable to discharge authorisations from land to sea.
- Documentation required by coastal legislation and other regional regulations on sanitation and wastewater treatment, in the case of discharges into collectors of the sanitation network.
- Documentation containing the data that allows the operation and emissions of the installation to be compared with the emission levels associated with the best available techniques already approved.
- Documentation accrediting compliance with the requirements established in the applicable sectoral legislation.
Deadlines and submission
- Deadline for submission
Not applicable.
- Submission deadline start date
- -
- Submission deadline end date
- -
- Periodicity
- Continuous
- Means of submission
- Online and in person
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- Online submission
- At the General Electronic Registry
- Art. 14. 2 of the Law 39/2015, of 1 October, of the Common Administrative Procedure of the Public Administrations, establishes the obligatory nature of the electronic management for certain subjects as, for example, a) The juridical persons, b) Entities without legal personality, c) Those who carry out a professional activity for which compulsory membership is required, for the procedures and actions they carry out with the Public Administrations in the exercise of said professional activity. In any case, within this group, notaries and property and mercantile registrars shall be included. d) Those who represent an interested party who is obliged to relate electronically with the Administration, e) The employees of the Public Administrations for the procedures and actions that they carry out with them due to their condition of public employee, in the form in which it is determined by regulation by each Administration.
- Place(s) for in-person submission
General Electronic Registry of the Administration of the Autonomous Community of Cantabria or by any of the means established in Article 134 of Law 5/2018, of 22 November, on the Legal Regime of the Government, the Administration and the Institutional Public Sector of the Autonomous Community of Cantabria.
Required documentation
- It is not necessary to provide documentation
Processing and resolution
- Instructor board
- Environmental Authorizations and Incentives Section.
- Attributive rule
- Decree 73/2005, of 30 June, on the organic structure and modification of the lists of jobs in the Department of the Environment and subsequent modifications.
- Decree 54/2023, of 20 July, partially modifying the basic structure of the Ministries of the Government of Cantabria.
- Reports or opinions
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- Report from the bodies with jurisdiction over the different environmental matters indicating the documentation they consider necessary to review. (elaboration deadline: 10 business days.).
- Report from the City Council, if the urban planning circumstances vary. (elaboration deadline: 10 business days.).
- Report of the basin organization, if applicable. (elaboration deadline: 10 business days.).
- Technical Environmental Assessment Report. (elaboration deadline: 3 months.).
- Resolution entity
- Director of Environment and Climate Change.
- Attributive rule
- Decree 127/2005, of 14 October, which designates the competent body to grant the integrated environmental authorisation and creates the Commission for Integrated Pollution Prevention and Control.
- Decree 54/2023, of 20 July, partially modifying the basic structure of the Ministries of the Government of Cantabria.
- Maximum deadline for decision
- 5 Months
- Average deadline for decision
- 6 Months
- Effects of the administrative silence or inactivity of the Administration
- Initiation ex officio:
- Negative
- Does it put an end to the administrative procedure?
- No
Appeals
- Type
Appeal.
- Board
Minister of Development, Housing, Territorial Planning and the Environment.
- Deadline
- 1 month.
Regulations
- Regulation applied
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- Royal Legislative Decree 1/2016, of 16 December, approving the Revised Text of the Law on Integrated Pollution Prevention and Control.
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- Law 7/2022, of 8 April, on waste and contaminated soil for a circular economy.
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- Law of Cantabria 2/2014, of 26 November, on water supply and sanitation in the Autonomous Community of Cantabria.
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- Law 21/2013, of 9 December, on environmental assessment.
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- Law 34/2007, of 15 November, on air quality and protection of the atmosphere.
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- Law of Cantabria 17/2006, of 11 December, on integrated environmental control.
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- Law 27/2006, of 18 July, which regulates the rights of access to information, public participation and access to justice in environmental matters.
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- Law 37/2003, of 17 November, on noise.
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- Royal Decree 646/2020, of 7 July, regulating the disposal of waste by landfill.
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- Royal Decree 840/2015, of 21 September, approving measures to control the risks inherent in serious accidents involving dangerous substances.
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- Royal Decree 815/2013, of 18 October, approving the regulations on industrial emissions and the development of the Law on integrated prevention and control of pollution.
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- Royal Decree 102/2011, of 28 January, on the improvement of air quality.
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- Royal Decree 100/2011, of 28 January, which updates the catalogue of activities that potentially pollute the atmosphere and establishes basic provisions for its application.
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- Royal Decree 105/2008, of 1 February, which regulates the production and management of construction and demolition waste.
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- Royal Decree 679/2006, of 2 June, which regulates the management of used industrial oils.
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- Royal Decree 9/2005, which establishes the list of potentially soil-polluting activities and the criteria and standards for the declaration of contaminated soils.
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- Royal Decree 379/2001, of 6 April, approving the Regulations on the storage of chemical products and their complementary technical instructions.
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- Decree 19/2010, of 18 March, approving the Regulation of the Law of Cantabria 17/2006, on integrated environmental control.
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- Decree 72/2010, of 28 October 2010, which regulates the production and management of construction and demolition waste in the Autonomous Community of Cantabria.
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- Decree 50/2009, of 18 June, which regulates the control of industrial air pollution in the Autonomous Community of Cantabria.
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- Decree 104/2006, of 19 October, on the recovery of slag in the Autonomous Community of Cantabria.
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