Bihor Environmental Protection Agency*

Authorization of activities included in Annex no.1 of OMMAP no. 1798/2007 for the approval of the procedure for issuing the environmental permit, with subsequent amendments and additions, by issuing the administrative act that establishes the conditions and/or operating parameters of an existing activity or a new activity with possible significant impact on the environment, mandatory at commissioning.

Issuing the administrative act that confirms the integration of environmental protection aspects into the plan or program subject to adoption, according to the provisions of Government Decision no. 1076/2004 with subsequent amendments and completions.

Requesting and performing laboratory analyses for air samples, according to the laboratory's working standards, which results in the issuance of a Test Report that includes the analysis results.

The laboratory complies with SR EN ISO/IEC 17025 – General requirements for the competence of testing and calibration laboratories, but is not RENAR accredited.

Normative acts:

Method standards used in the laboratory
Order 890/2009 for amending certain normative acts establishing fees in the field of environmental protection – works and services provided in Annex I, Section 2

Authorization of activities included in Annex no.1 of Law 278/2013 regarding industrial emissions, after completing the stages according to Order 818/2003, in situations where the installations comply with the provisions of the legislation in force.

Legal basis

DECISION no. 1,061 of September 10, 2008 regarding the transport of hazardous and non-hazardous waste on the territory of Romania

​ (1) The transport of hazardous waste is carried out from the generator or holder, hereinafter referred to as the consignor, to the economic operator performing the collection/temporary storage/treatment/recovery/disposal operation, hereinafter referred to as the consignee, in compliance with the provisions of this decision.

(2) The consignor completes a form for the approval of the hazardous waste transport, the model of which is provided in Annex no. 1.

(3) The form for the approval of hazardous waste transport, signed and stamped, is sent to the consignee of the hazardous waste.

(4) The consignee of the hazardous waste, upon receiving the form for approval of hazardous waste transport, may accept the performance of the transport or request additional information from the consignor. If the consignee accepts the transport, they sign and stamp the form for the approval of hazardous waste transport.

The form for the approval of hazardous waste transport, signed and stamped by the consignee, is sent to the county environmental protection agency in whose territorial jurisdiction the treatment/recovery/disposal installation is located, in order to obtain its approval for the transport of hazardous waste, the maximum response time being 7 working days from receipt of all requested information.

(6) When establishing the consignee and the route for hazardous waste transport, the consignor shall consider, as far as possible, compliance with the proximity principle, which stipulates that waste should be recovered and disposed of as close as possible to the place of generation.

(7) The county environmental protection agency in whose territorial jurisdiction the treatment/recovery/disposal installation is located has the following duties:

a) to sign and stamp the form for the approval of hazardous waste transport only after verifying and analyzing the information provided, if it agrees with the treatment, recovery or disposal operations applied to hazardous waste by the consignee;

b) to request additional information from the consignor of hazardous waste, from the operator of the treatment/recovery/disposal installation or from the National Environmental Guard, as the case may be;

c) to check whether the transport of hazardous waste respects the regime of protected natural areas and Natura 2000 sites.

Legal basis

DECISION no. 173 of March 13, 2000 (*updated*), for regulating the special regime regarding the management and control of polychlorinated biphenyls and other similar compounds

ART. 17

(1) Economic agents shall prepare and submit to the territorial environmental protection agencies elimination plans for all equipment and materials containing designated compounds in quantities greater than the minimal amounts.

(2) The elimination plans will be drawn up according to the model presented in Annex no. 7.

(3) Elimination plans prepared by economic agents must specify that equipment containing designated compounds in concentrations between 50 and 500 ppm may continue to be used until the end of their useful life, provided that all established technological standards are fully respected.

(5) The territorial environmental protection agencies shall verify the elimination plans submitted by economic agents, requesting any necessary modifications or completions so that they may be approved and become final. One copy of the final form of the elimination plan shall be retained by the territorial environmental protection agency, and another copy shall remain with the economic agent responsible for the designated compounds.

(6) The documents and instructions for completing them upon the transfer of designated compounds to another site are established in Annex no. 8. A copy of the documents shall be sent by the territorial environmental protection agency to the fire prevention and extinguishing authorities.

Legislation

-ORDER no. 344/708/2004 for the approval of the Technical Norms regarding environmental protection and especially of soils, when TECHNICAL NORMS are used from August 16, 2004 regarding environmental protection and in particular of soils, when sewage sludge is used in agriculture
-Directive 86/278/EEC regarding environmental protection and, in particular, soil protection, when sludge from treatment plants is used in agriculture.

Obligations of producers and respectively of users of sewage sludge

The sludge producer has the following obligations:

1. to notify the territorial environmental authority and the sludge users about any pollutants present in the sludge;

2. to identify the sludge user and the agricultural areas (including sensitive ones) that meet the necessary conditions for sludge use, based on soil studies prepared, at the producer's request, by the territorial offices of pedological and agrochemical studies;

3. to contact the sludge user and evaluate the possibilities of using the sludge.

To obtain the application permit based on the operation authorization of the treatment plant, the sludge producer must send the competent territorial authority, at least one month before the spreading period, data regarding:

a) quantities of sludge generated and quantities of sludge provided for use in agriculture;

b) composition and characteristics of the sludge, according to the indicators for sludge characterization in the present order;

c) the type of treatment performed on the sludge;

d) identification data of the sludge users;

e) data about the location of the agricultural area where the sludge is to be applied;

f) the probable spreading period;

g) type of crop;

The issuance of an administrative act by which the conditions and, where applicable, the measures for environmental protection that must be observed in the implementation of a project are established, according to the provisions of Law 292/2018

The request and performance of laboratory analyses for waste samples (representing wastewater) according to the laboratory's working standards, which concludes with the issuance of a Test Report containing the analysis results.

The laboratory complies with SR EN ISO/IEC 17025 - General requirements for the competence of testing and calibration laboratories, but is not RENAR accredited.

Normative acts:

-Method standards used in the laboratory
-Order 890/2009 for amending certain normative acts establishing tariffs in the field of environmental protection - works and services provided in Annex I, Section 2

The activities of harvesting, capturing and/or purchasing and/or trading plants and animals from the wild flora and fauna, terrestrial and aquatic, in a live or semi-processed state, or certain parts or products thereof, mine flowers, plant fossils and vertebrate and invertebrate animal fossils, on the national territory or for export, can only be organized and carried out by authorized natural or legal persons, in accordance with the provisions of the procedure of Order 410/2008.

Authorization requests are resolved within a maximum of 15 working days from the date of registration, provided that the documentation submitted by the applicant is complete.

If the documentation is not complete, the competent authority is obliged to notify the applicant, within a maximum of 10 days, about the missing documents from the authorization file.