1 Introduction and Objectives
1.1 Background
1.2 Objectives
1.3 Methodology and Structure
2 The IPPC Directive’s Provisions Relating to Economic Aspects
2.1 General Goals and Effects of the IPPC Directive
2.2 Best Available Technique
3 Implementation of the IPPC Directive in Germany
3.1 Division of Competencies in Environmental Legislation
3.2 Permitting in Germany
3.3 Necessary Legal Amendments in the German Legislation
3.4 State of Transposition
3.5 The Artikelgesetz
3.6 The Situation in the New Länder
4 Relevance of Economic Aspects for Industrial Licensing in Germany
4.1 Identification of Stand der Technik in Germany – a Weighting Process
4.2 Availability and sources of cost data
4.3 Economic Aspects of Granting of Permits
5 Experience in the UK
5.1 The BATNEEC Approach
5.2 The Transposition of the IPPC Directive
6 Impact of Implementing IPPC on Selected Economic Sectors
7 Methodologies for Cost Assessments
7.1 Necessities for Resilient Cost Estimations
7.2 Other Influences on the Resulting Costs
7.3 VDI Guideline 3800
7.4 Other Methods Used or Proposed in German Studies
7.5 Preliminary Conclusion
8 Ways of Reducing the Cost of Implementing the IPPC Directive
9 Conclusions