Division BAT 12

In order to prevent, or where that is not practicable, to reduce odour emissions from a farm, BAT is to set up, implement and regularly review an odour management plan, as part of the environmental management system (see BAT 1), that includes the following elements:

1. i..

   a protocol containing appropriate actions and timelines;

2. ii..

   a protocol for conducting odour monitoring;

3. iii..

   a protocol for response to identified odour nuisance;

4. iv..

   an odour prevention and elimination programme designed to e.g. identify the source(s), to monitor odour emissions (see BAT 26), to characterise the contributions of the sources and to implement elimination and/or reduction measures;

5. v..

   a review of historical odour incidents and remedies and the dissemination of odour incident knowledge.

The associated monitoring is in BAT 26.