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
- 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
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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- Informe de los órganos con competencia sobre las diferentes materias ambientales en el que indiquen la documentación que estiman necesaria revisar. (elaboration deadline: 10 días hábiles.).
- Informe del Ayuntamiento, si varían las circunstancias urbanísticas. (elaboration deadline: 10 días hábiles.).
- Informe del organismo de cuenca, en su caso. (elaboration deadline: 10 días hábiles.).
- Informe Técnico de Valoración Ambiental. (elaboration deadline: 3 meses.).
- 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
- Negative
- Initiation ex officio:
- Negative
- Does it put an end to the administrative procedure?
- No
- Subject to participation of certification partner entities
- No
- Certification Partner Entities
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Currently, there are no certification partner entities authorized to act in this procedure.
Appeals
- Type
Appeal.
- Board
Minister of Development, Housing, Territorial Planning and the Environment.
- Deadline
- 1 month.
Regulations
- Regulation applied
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- Real Decreto Legislativo 1/2016, de 16 de diciembre, por el que se aprueba el Texto Refundido de la Ley de prevención y control integrados de la contaminación.
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- Ley 7/2022, de 8 de abril, de residuos y suelos contaminados para una economía circular.
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- Ley de Cantabria 2/2014, de 26 de noviembre, de abastecimiento y saneamiento de aguas de la Comunidad Autónoma de Cantabria.
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- Ley 21/2013, de 9 de diciembre, de evaluación ambiental.
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- Ley 34/2007, de 15 de noviembre, de calidad del aire y protección de la atmósfera.
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- Ley de Cantabria 17/2006, de 11 de diciembre, de control ambiental integrado.
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- Ley 27/2006, de 18 de julio, por la que se regulan los derechos de acceso a la información, de participación pública y de acceso a la justicia en materia de medio ambiente.
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- Ley 37/2003, de 17 de noviembre, del ruido.
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- Real Decreto 646/2020, de 7 de julio, por el que se regula la eliminación de residuos mediante depósito en vertedero.
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- Real Decreto 840/2015, de 21 de septiembre, por el que se aprueban medidas de control de los riesgos inherentes a los accidentes graves en los que intervengan sustancias peligrosas.
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- Real Decreto 815/2013, de 18 de octubre, por el que se aprueba el reglamento de emisiones industriales y de desarrollo de la Ley de prevención y control integrados de la de la contaminación.
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- Real Decreto 102/2011, de 28 de enero, relativo a la mejora de la calidad del aire.
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- Real Decreto 100/2011, de 28 de enero, por el que se actualiza el catálogo de actividades potencialmente contaminadoras de la atmósfera y se establecen disposiciones básicas para su aplicación.
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- Real Decreto 105/2008, de 1 de febrero, por el que se regula la producción y gestión de residuos de construcción y demolición.
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- Real Decreto 679/2006, de 2 de junio, por el que se regula la gestión de los aceites industriales usados.
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- Real Decreto 9/2005, por el que se establece la relación de actividades potencialmente contaminantes del suelo y los criterios y estándares para la declaración de suelos contaminados.
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- Real Decreto 379/2001, de 6 de abril por el que se aprueba el Reglamento de almacenamiento de productos químicos y sus instrucciones técnicas complementarias.
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- Decreto 19/2010, de 18 de marzo, por el que se aprueba el Reglamento de la Ley de Cantabria 17/2006, de control ambiental integrado.
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- Decreto 72/2010, de 28 de octubre de 2010, por el que se regula la producción y gestión de los residuos de construcción y demolición en en la Comunidad Autónoma de Cantabria.
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- Decreto 50/2009, de 18 de junio, por el que se regula en la Comunidad Autónoma de Cantabria el control de la contaminación atmosférica industrial.
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- Decreto 104/2006, de 19 de octubre, de valorización de escorias en la Comunidad Autónoma de Cantabria.
Do you need help?
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- Personal telephone attention by means of information agents, from 9:00 to 21:00 hours from Monday to Friday, excluding public holidays.
Mechanised attention, via voicemail, during other hours and on public holidays. - Incoming calls to the mailbox will be recorded and then, from the General Information Telephone 012, a response call will be made to the citizen to resolve his or her request for information.
- For telephone calls from outside the Autonomous Community of Cantabria you can dial 942 395 563 (from abroad +34 942 395 563); if you are calling from Cantabria, you can dial 942 395 562.
- This service is only available in Spanish.

