Requirements
The Member States must ensure that all new medium combustion plants put into operation after 19 December 2018 have a permit or are registered: the first group (with input or capacity greater than 5 MW) by 1 January 2024, the second group (with input less than or equal greater to 5 MW) by 1 January 2029. Each EU country’s competent authority must hold a publicly available register with information on each plant, such as the type of fuel used and the expected number of annual operating hours.
The legislation sets out emission limit values by fuel category, also distinguishing between new and existing plants. Some plants may be exempted from the limits. The limit values apply from 20 December 2018 for new plants and by 2025 or 2030 for existing plants, depending on their size.
Furthermore, effective inspections must be established to check compliance with emission limit values. The Member States must provide the Commission with several reports: with an estimate of the total amount of annual emissions of CO (by 1 January 2021), with qualitative and quantitative information on the directive's implementation (by 1 October 2026), with a second report on implementation (by 1 October 2031).
Operators of plants must: monitor their emissions and maintain a record, for at least six years, of the results of emission monitoring, of operating hours, type and quantities of fuel used and details of any malfunction or breakdown.