Division 4 Columns 4-6 cover the various ways in which existing installations can be made subject to permits that are considered compliant with Directive 96/61/EC. These are as follows:

the granting of a permit in accordance with the procedure set down by Articles 6 and 8. Column 4 refers to such a permit as a new permit. The figures include any such new permits granted as a consequence of a proposed ‘substantial change’.

as an alternative to applying the procedure of Articles 6 and 8, Article 5(1) allows a competent authority to bring existing installations into compliance ‘by reconsidering and, where necessary, by updating’ the conditions to which the installations were already subject, e.g. under what might be termed a pre-IPPC permit (i.e. a permit issued under legislation preceding implementation of the Directive 96/61/EC). Column 5 requests data on those cases where the conditions of such a pre-IPPC permit were reconsidered, but no updating was undertaken because the conditions were considered to already comply with the requirements of Directive 96/61/EC.

column 6 similarly requests data on those cases where the conditions of a pre-IPPC permit were reconsidered, and the conditions were subsequently updated in order to comply with Directive 96/61/EC. This includes any such permits where the reconsideration and updating was brought about as a consequence of a proposed ‘substantial change’.