The Medium Combustion Plants Directive (2015/2193/EU)

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Scope and objectives of the Medium Combustion Plants Directive

 

The Directive applies from 18 December 2015. The Member States had to transpose it by 19 December 2017.

The medium combustion plant is a plant which burns fuel and uses the heat generated, with a rated thermal input equal to or greater than 1 MW and less than 50 MW, irrespective of the type of fuel it uses. The Directive does not apply to certain combustion plants, such as coke battery furnaces, gas turbines and engines used offshore, reactors used in the chemical industry and plants already covered by other EU legislation regulating their emissions, such as the IED. Similarly to the IED, the Medium Combustion Plants Directive does not apply to ancillary research, development and testing activities.

The main objective of the Directive is a cost-effective abatement of air emissions. Medium combustion plants should be developed and operated in such a way as to promote energy efficiency. Such considerations, as well as economic considerations, technical possibilities and the lifecycle of existing medium combustion plants, should, in particular, be taken into account when retrofitting medium combustion plants or deciding on major investments.