Activity Complex

-- Name -- permission -- Definition -- Official Decision (formal consent) granting authorization to operate all or part of an Activity Complex, subject to certain conditions which guarantee that the installations or parts of installations on the same site operated by the same operator comply with the requirements fixed by a competent authority. A permit may cover one or more functions and fix parameters of capacity. The term could be extended to other kind of certificates or documents of special relevance depending of the scope (e.g. ISO, EMAS, National Quality Standards, etc). The term may be extended to other kind of certificates or documents of special relevance depending of the scope (e.g. ISO, EMAS, National Quality Standards, etc). -- Description -- NOTE This terms is referred in several legislative acts as “permit” , “authorization”, “development consent” or “exploration permit” among others. EXAMPLE 1 “…a [written] decision by which the competent authority grants permission to operate all or part of an installation” ; EXAMPLE 2 “.. the decision of the competent authority or authorities which entitles the developer to proceed with the project..”.

-- Name -- activity complex description -- Definition -- Additional information about an activity complex, including its description, address, contact and related parties.

-- Name -- capacity -- Definition -- A quantification of an actual or potential ability to perform an activity, that typically does not change, does not change often, or does not change to a significant degree. -- Description -- NOTE Capacity could refer depending of the thematic scope to different concepts included on the legislation as “emission limits”, “capacity incineration”, “livestock units”, “nominal capacity”, “objective estimation data”, “rate of desulphurization” or “recycling rate”.

-- Name -- function -- Definition -- The function of something expressed as an activity and optional input and/or output. -- Description -- NOTE Depending on the scope it can refer to different activities (co-incineration, Collection, exploration, incineration, interim disposal, management, recycling, primary production, primary treatment, recovery , recycling, release, storage, use, waste management, etc) and Inputs and Outputs (sludge, substance, tailings, technical products, urban waste water, volatile organic compound, waste, WEEE from private households, etc).

-- Name -- amount of input or output -- Definition -- Type and, where available, measurable amount of a classified or registered material that enters or leaves a technical and economical unit. -- Description -- NOTE Depending on the thematic scope it can refer to different terms as Biomass, Bio-Waste, Fuel, Organic Solvents, Waste Water, Waste for disposal or recovery, Primary Materials, etc.