Training programme on integrated environmental permits successfully completed in Ukraine

From August 25 to Sep­tem­ber 3, 2025, the Min­istry of Econ­o­my, Envi­ron­ment, and Agri­cul­ture of Ukraine, in coop­er­a­tion with the GIZ project “Best Avail­able Tech­niques (BAT) for Ukraine,” con­duct­ed a series of train­ing ses­sions on the new pro­ce­dure for issu­ing Inte­grat­ed Envi­ron­men­tal Per­mits (IEPs).

The five-day train­ing for enter­pris­es pro­vid­ed step-by-step guid­ance on com­plet­ing per­mit appli­ca­tions, using the elec­tron­ic Reg­is­ter of IEPs, and apply­ing the con­clu­sions of BAT. Sep­a­rate ses­sions were organ­ised for region­al state admin­is­tra­tions and civ­il soci­ety rep­re­sen­ta­tives, focus­ing on their role in review­ing appli­ca­tions, par­tic­i­pat­ing in pub­lic con­sul­ta­tions, and ensur­ing trans­par­ent access to infor­ma­tion. The train­ing pro­gramme fea­tured con­tri­bu­tions from nation­al experts, gov­ern­ment agen­cies, as well as inter­na­tion­al spe­cial­ists from the Czech Repub­lic and OECD. Par­tic­i­pants not­ed that the prac­ti­cal exer­cis­es and open dis­cus­sions helped them bet­ter under­stand their respon­si­bil­i­ties in the new per­mit­ting sys­tem. The intro­duc­tion of IEPs to replace three sep­a­rate per­mits (air emis­sions, water use, and waste man­age­ment) marks a sig­nif­i­cant step toward reduc­ing indus­tri­al pol­lu­tion and align­ing Ukraine’s envi­ron­men­tal stan­dards with the prin­ci­ples of the IED Direc­tive 2010/75/EU.

The project “Best Avail­able Tech­niques (BAT) for Ukraine” imple­ment­ed by Deutsche Gesellschaft für Inter­na­tionale Zusam­me­nar­beit (GIZ) GmbH on behalf of Fed­er­al Min­istry for the Envi­ron­ment, Cli­mate Action, Nature Con­ser­va­tion and Nuclear Safe­ty (BMUKN).