The European IPPC Bureau
IEF Documents
In this section, you can find important documents that have been discussed an approved by the Information Exchange Forum (IEF) in order to guide the elaboration and review of reference documents.
- BREF Outline and Guide provides an agreed basis for the work of the European IPPC Bureau and the TWGs
- Standard texts for BREFs contain pieces of standard texts used in various parts of the BREFs
- Generic schedule for the reviews of BREFs presents the main steps that a TWG has to follow in order to review a BREF
- Strategy to review the chemical BREFs presents the main elements to take into consideration to review the first series of chemical BREFs
- IEF 20-4 Guidance document on improving the collection and submission of data for the review of the BREFs
- IEF 19-6 Participation of 'equipment suppliers' in the 'Sevilla Process'
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