Division General notes:

This third questionnaire under Directive 2000/76/EC covers the years 2012 and 2013. In view of the experience gained in the implementation of the Directive and the information already obtained through the previous questionnaires, this questionnaire focuses on the changes and progress made by Member States in the actual implementation of the Directive. As Directive 2000/76/EC will be repealed from 7 January 2014 and will be replaced by Directive 2010/75/EU on industrial emissions (IED), the reporting period is limited to 2 years instead of 3 years.

In order to ensure continuity and enable direct comparisons to be made to previous responses, this questionnaire does not change the general approach contained in Decision 2010/731/EU. In those cases where questions are similar to those of the previous questionnaire, reference can simply be made to the previous answers where the situation is unchanged. If there have been new developments, these should be described in a new answer.