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‘best available techniques’ means the most effective and advanced stage in the development of activities and their methods of operation which indicates the practical suitability of particular techniques for providing the basis for emission limit values and other permit conditions designed to prevent and, where that is not practicable, to reduce emissions and the impact on the environment as a whole: ‘techniques’ includes both the technology used and the way in which the installation is designed, built, maintained, operated and decommissioned; ‘available techniques’ means techniques developed on a scale which allows implementation in the relevant industrial sector, under economically and technically viable conditions, taking into consideration the costs and advantages, regardless of whether such techniques are used or produced in the Union, as long as they are reasonably accessible to the operator; ‘best’ means most effective in achieving a high general level of protection of the environment as a whole, including human health and climate protection;

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Source: EUR-Lex CELLAR · retrieved 2026-08-09 · Text as consolidated on 2024-08-04; changes after this date are not shown.