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On 10 June 2021, the German Bundestag passed stricter exhaust gas limits for power plants burning fossil fuels, waste incineration plants and plants for the production of organic basic chemicals. This new ordinance combines the revised version of the 13th BImSchV (06/2020) - Ordinance on Large Combustion Plants, Gas Turbines and Combustion Engine Plants and the 17th BImSchV (05/2013) - Ordinance on the Incineration and Co-incineration of Waste and adapts it to the state of the art.
The specifications concern the limit values for emissions of mercury, nitrogen and sulphur oxides, formaldehyde and methane as well as for dust. In particular, the emission limits for mercury are significantly reduced from 30 µg/m³ to 20 µg/m³ for the daily average values. For about 580 large combustion plants in Germany, new annual mean values for mercury will be introduced according to the state of the art. The requirements for existing large coal-fired power plants are to be lowered in a phased plan from the current 10µg/m³ to 4 or 5 µg/m³ as an annual average and in about 4 years by another 1µg/m³. The limit values depend on the size and age of the plants and on the type of coal.
With the new ordinance, the German government is implementing requirements that resulted as conclusions from the "Best Available Techniques for Large Combustion Plants" (BAT) adopted across the EU in 2017. Based on this, pollutant limit values are to be updated for industrial plants in the EU in order to ensure reductions based on improved technical possibilities.
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