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SMS VOSLESS Project objective
Provides
enterprises with a tool aiming at implementing an integrated approach to
the environmental quality and at developing an environmental “self
control” system in the SME’s.
Concerning the
implementation of a Solvent Management Plan (SMP), the project aims at
achieving the following objectives:
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To analyse both
the specific industrial sectors using solvents in their processes and
the different situations existing in all the Countries involved by the
project, which means, for example, the number of firms, the quantity
of solvent used in the processes, etc
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To implement an
integrated approach to the environmental quality. In other words,
industrial sectors should develop in respect of the environmental
quality
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To optimise the
implementation of legislation through a specific “trans-national”
instrument
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To promote the
development of a “self-control system” in all the firms using solvents
in their processes, which allows the control of the emissions being in
compliance with the Directive
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To optimise the
cooperation between the firms and the Public Administration in order
to overcome the concept of command and control held by PA until now
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To promote the
implementation of the Environmental Management Systems
Expected Results
The concrete results to be achieved are the
following:
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To implement the Solvent Management Plan (SMP) to 45 firms and 7
industrial sectors
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To fix a suitable indicators set in order to verify and quantify the
performance of the Solvent Management Plan. On the other hand, the
indicators set will allow some comparisons with the results achieved
both in different Countries and in different firms of the same
industrial sector
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To implement and diffuse a specific software to quantify the emissions
values
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To organize some management trainings in order to form several
internal operators to perform particular and very practical actions
such as using and checking VOC abatement systems, using specific
painting systems and checking their performances etc..
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To provide the Public Administration with operative procedures to
optimise the checking activities
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To promote the diffusion of the SMP in Romania and Slovenia
Expected Impacts
The main
expected impacts are essentially the following: first of all to create a
favourable situation which induces the 20% of the small-medium firms to
implement the Solvent Management Plan following the experiences performed
by the firms involved by the project. Consequently, the implementation of
the SMP implicates the diffusion of the Environmental Management Systems
inside the general management of a firm belonging to the analysed
industrial sectors. The two aspects are strictly correlated: implementing
a Solvent Management Plan means introducing the contents, the tools and
the schemes of an environmental management referred to a specific sector -
the air emissions. On the other hand, an Environmental Management System,
for example EMAS Regulation, should introduce the SMP inside a procedure
as a tool to reduce the specific emissions of a firm. Hence EMAS
Regulation is useful to solve and manage even particular environmental
problems. The further impact to be expected regards the editing of the
Local/Regional Air Quality Restoring Plan. Particularly, in Italy some
problematic air pollution situations are generally created by the
industrial districts as well as in Germany by confined areas with a high
density of industrial firms. The SMP shall produce a decrease of the
pollution due to a general implementation within every single firm located
inside the specific industrial cluster. Insofar Romania and Slovenia are
concerned, the air pollution is increasing due to new Italian activities
settled up during the last five years. The SMP shall be an instrument to
avoid and prevent the creation of pollution situations.
Target groups
The project applies to the following groups:
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To both
single firms and firms located inside the industrial clusters. The
analysed industrial sectors are the following:
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wood/wooden
furniture ®
the analysis is focused on the coating process
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metals
® the
analysis is focused on both the coating and the cleaning process
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plastic
® the
analysis is focused on the coating process
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some
shoes production
® the analysis is focused on both the gluing operations and the
finishing/cleaning process
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car
repairing ®
the analysis is focused on the coating process
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dry
cleaning
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production of coating products
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Public
Authorities (as Public Administrations like control authorities,
environmental agencies)
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Industrial,
SME and artisan associations (in Italy involved to project Unindustria
province of Treviso, Confederazione Nazionale Artigianato e della
Piccola e media Impresa CAN Forlì-Cesena, Confartigianato Forlì, in
German the Federal Association of Wood Working Skilled Crafts; in
Slovenia the Wood Industry Development Centre)
Partners
The Countries involved in the project are Italy, Germany, Slovenia and
Romania. As regards the 1999/13/EC Directive implementation, Germany shows
an advanced development situation. Some research projects are, in fact,
already carried out in order to investigate the development of
methodologies and data bases for the assessment and optimisation of the
economic performance of VOC emission reduction strategies on a regional,
national and supra national level. As far as Italy is concerned, the
Directive implementation is recent enough. Particularly, the investigated
sectors/processes at present are coating processes, surface degreasing,
shoes production, car repairing, dry cleaning and production of coating
products. It should be noted that many firms located in north-east regions
set up their activities even in Romania, where the Solvent Directive is
not yet implemented but it will be in future. Finally, as regards
Slovenia, the situation of the directive implementation is the same as in
Romania.
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