Glossary
A
- Acid Gases
- Acid gases are the gaseous products of combustion (sulphur dioxide, nitrogen oxides), characterised by an acid reaction in the presence of water.
- Activated Carbon
- Activated carbon is a special type of finely powdered carbon that has an enormous number of fine pores that can adsorb liquid or gaseous pollutants.
B
- Bacteria And/or Micro-organisms
- Bacteria are single-celled micro-organisms, visible only through a microscope. There are three characteristic bacterial shapes: rod-like (bacillus), spherical (coccus) and spiral (spirillum). They generally reproduce by fission and feed on soluble substances, the only type of nutrient that can penetrate the semi-permeable cell membrane enclosing them. Bacteria are very common in nature (air, water and soil) wherever there is water. The bacteria used in waste treatment plants can be aerobic or anaerobic, depending on whether there is oxygen in the waste to be treated.
- BAT
- Best Available Techniques
- BATAEL
- Best Available Technique Associated Emission Level
- BATNEEC
- Best Available Techniques Not Entailing Excessive Cost
- BREF
- Best Available Techniques Reference Document
C
- CEN
- Comité Européen de Normalisation (European Standardisation Committee); the French abbreviation is the commonly-used one
- CEWEP
- Confederation of European Waste to Energy Plants
- COREPER
- EU Council of Ministers Committee of Permanent Representatives
D
- DG ENTR
- Enterprise Directorate-General in the European Commission
- DG ENV
- Environment Directorate-General in the European Commission
- DG TREN
- Energy and Transport Directorate-General in the European Commission
E
- ECJ
- European Court of Justice
- EIPPCB
- European Integrated Pollution Prevention and Control Bureau
- ELDR
- European Liberal, Democratic and Reform Party Group of MEPs
- ELVs
- Emission Limit Values
- EP
- European Parliament
- EPP-ED / PPE-ED
- European People’s Party / European Democrats group of MEPs (Christian Democrats and UK Conservatives)
- ERFO
- European Recovered Fuels Organisation
- ETS
- Emissions Trading Scheme
- EWC
- European Waste Catalogue
F
- FEAD
- Fédération Européenne des Activités du Déchet et de l’Environnement / European Federation of Waste Management and Environmental Services
H
- HWID
- Hazardous Waste Incineration Directive
I
- IED
- Industrial Emissions Directive
- IEF
- (IPPC) Information Exchange Forum
- IPPC
- Integrated Pollution Prevention and Control
L
- LCPs
- Large Combustion Plants
- LoW
- List of waste
- LVIC
- Large Volume Inorganic Chemicals
M
- MSW
- Municipal Solid Waste
O
- OECD
- Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development
P
- PES / PSE
- Party of European Socialists (group of MEPs)
- POPs
- Persistent Organic Pollutants
R
- REACH
- Registration, Evaluation and Authorisation of Chemicals
- RES
- Renewable Energy Sources
- RoHS
- Restriction of Hazardous Substances
S
- SABP
- Slaughterhouse and Animal By-Products
- Seveso II Directive
- Common name for the Directive on Control of Major Accident Hazards
- SIC
- Speciality Inorganic Chemicals
T
- TAC
- Technical Adaptation Committee
- TWG
- Technical Working Group
U
- UNECE
- United Nations Economic Commission for Europe
- UNICE
- Union of Industrial and Employers’ Confederations of Europe
V
- VOCs
- Volatile Organic Compounds
W
- Waste Storage
- Temporary or permanent storing of waste, authorised by the relative governmental authorities.
- WEEE
- Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment
- WFD
- Waste Framework Directive
- WHO
- World Health Organisation
- WID
- Waste Incineration Directive