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Guidelines to Statutory Order on the Licensing of Waste Water Discharges
Contents
Foreword
1. Area of application of the Statutory Order
1.1 Scope
1.2 Application of the Statutory Order to existing
waste water systems
2. Definitions
2.1 Terminology
2.1.1 Waste water
2.1.2 Domestic waste water
2.1.3 Surface run-off
2.1.4 Human waste
2.1.5 Population equivalent
2.1.6 Holding tank
2.1.7 Waste water system
2.1.8 Capacity
2.1.9 Public waste water system
2.1.10 Private waste water system
2.1.11 Best available techniques
3. Content of the waste water plan
3.1 Background
3.2 The provisions of the Environmental Protection Act
concerning waste water planning
3.2.1 General
3.2.2 Existing and planned sewage catchment areas. Ownership
3.2.3 Areas for which the duty to connect to the public
waste water system may be revoked
3.2.4 State of repair and rehabilitation of sewer systems
3.2.5 Waste water planning for rural areas
3.2.6 Areas where waste water disposal is effected by
percolation
3.2.7 Dispersed settlements subject to requirements
regarding waste water treatment
3.2.8 Municipal/private systems
3.2.9 Timetable and financial plan
3.3 Supplementary requirements to be met by waste
water plans
3.3.1 Compatibility of the waste water plan with other
planning
3.3.2 Other types of waste water disposal within the
municipality
3.3.3 Planned and existing discharge facilities
3.3.4 Economy
3.3.5 Compulsory acquisition of land and registration of a
covenant
3.3.6 Establishment of a private shared waste water system
3.3.7 Revision of the waste water plan
4. Consideration and adoption of the proposed waste
water plan
4.1 Background
4.2 Public hearing
4.3 The regional council’s role in waste water planning
4.4 The local council’s adoption of the proposed plan
4.5 Legal effects of the waste water plan
4.6 Right of appeal
5. Connection of waste water to waste water systems
5.1 The general provisions of the Environmental
Protection Act
5.2 Right and duty to connect to public waste water
systems
5.3 Authority to issue connection licences
5.3.1 Connection to public waste water systems
5.3.2 Connection to private waste water systems
5.4 Licensing procedure
5.4.1 Connection of ordinary domestic waste water from
households to the public waste water system
5.4.2 Environmental impact assessment of waste water
connections
5.4.3 Information to be provided in applications for
connection
5.4.4 Capacity of waste water system and catchment area
5.4.5 Stipulation of conditions in the connection licence
5.4.6 Act on the environmental impact of gene technology
("Lov om miljø og genteknologi")
5.5 Changing a waste water connection
5.5.1 Changing the conditions stipulated in a connection
licence
5.5.2 Changing the layout and organisation of waste water
systems
5.6 The Danish Building Act for Enterprises
("Byggeloven for virksomheder")
5.7 Supervision and enforcement
5.8 Summary of the allocation of authority etc.
5.9 Right of appeal
6. Revocation of the duty to connect to public waste
water systems
6.1
Background
6.2 Connections that may be terminated
6.3
6.3 Conditions for withdrawal
6.3.1 Conditions related to municipal waste water planning
6.3.2 Agreement between the local authority and the
landowner
6.4 Effect on the economy of the waste water service
6.5
Effect on the technical performance of the waste
water service
6.6 Licensing of alternative disposal
6.6.1 Effect on the objectives of the regional plan
6.7 Effect on the requirements established in the
Aquatic Environment Plan
6.8
6.8 Right of appeal
7. Discharge of waste water into watercourses, lakes
or the sea
7.1 General provisions of the Environmental Protection
Act
7.2 Application procedure
7.3 Competence of the local council
7.3.1 Domestic waste water
7.3.2 Process waste water representing max. 30 p.e.
7.3.3 Surface run-off
7.3.4 Copy to the regional council
7.4 Competence of the regional council
7.4.1 Major public waste water systems
7.4.2 Enterprises
7.4.3 Surface run-off from roads and railways
7.4.4 Overflow from combined sewer systems
7.5 Discharge from enterprises subject to approval
7.6 Conditions stipulated in discharge licences
7.6.1 Emission standards
7.6.2 Sample-taking and analytical methods
7.6.3 Effluent monitoring
7.7 Infiltration plants established in the proximity
of watercourses, lakes and the sea
7.8
Determination of capacity
7.9
Supervision and enforcement
7.10 Allocation of competence
7.11 Variation of discharge licences
7.12Right of appeal
8. Emission limit values for certain substances
discharged from public waste water systems
8.1 Background
8.1.1 Determining the capacity of a municipal waste water
system
8.2 Waste water treatment plants subject to national
emission standards
8.3
National emission standards
8.3.1 Monitoring procedure for treated effluent
8.3.2 Minimum number of effluent samples
8.4 Administrative provisions
8.5
Supervision and enforcement
9. Reduction in nitrogen and phosphorus loads
discharged from major industrial enterprises
9.1
The enterprises
9.2
Definitions
9.3
Treatment standards
9.4
Substance reduction
9.5
Effluent monitoring
9.6
Transfer of competence
9.7
Legal protection
9.8
Supervision and enforcement
9.9Right of appeal
10. Prohibition of the direct discharge of certain
substances to the ground water
10.1
Prohibition of the direct discharge of certain
substances
10.2 Exemption
10.3
Supervision
10.4
Right of appeal
11. Disposal of waste water from dispersed
settlements
11.1
Background
11.2
Definition of ‘dispersed settlements’
11.3
Requirements regarding level of treatment to be
stipulated in discharge licences or enforcement notices
11.4 Waste water systems that meet the criteria of the
four classes of treatment
11.5 Criterion for issuing enforcement notices for
improved waste water treatment
11.5.1 Specific requirements for documentation in
connection with enforcement notices
11.6 Supervision
11.7Right of appeal etc.
12. Discharge of waste water into the ground
(percolation)
12.1
General provisions of the Environmental
Protection Act
12.2
Application procedure
12.3
Local council licensing of percolation of
domestic waste water etc.
12.3.1 General
12.3.2 Volume and character of waste water
12.3.3 Exclusion zones for water abstraction plants
established pursuant to section 22 of the Environmental Protection Act
12.3.4 Clearance distance between the infiltration plant
and water abstraction plants
12.3.5 Less stringent clearance distance requirements
12.3.6 Clearance distance from watercourses, lakes or the
sea
12.3.7 Suitability of the soil for percolation
12.3.8 Design of infiltration plants
12.3.9 Clearance distance from the highest ground water
table
12.3.10 Indicative clearance distance requirements
12.4 Local council licensing of percolation of
surface run-off
12.4.1 Character and volume of surface run-off
12.4.2 Clearance distance from water abstraction plants
etc.
12.4.3 Design of the infiltration plant
12.4.4 Clearance distance from watercourses, lakes or the
sea
12.4.5 Other clearance distance requirements
12.5 Regional council licensing of percolation
12.5.1 General
12.5.2 Volume and character of waste water
12.5.3 Compliance with municipal and regional planning for
the area
12.5.4 Protection of water abstraction plants and ground
water resources
12.5.5 Compliance with quality objectives for watercourses,
lakes and the sea
12.5.6 Design of systems for the percolation of
chlorine-containing waste water
12.6 Transfer of licensing competence from the
regional council to the local council
12.6.1 General
12.6.2 Clearance distance from water abstraction plants
12.6.3 Design of the infiltration plant
12.6.4 Clearance distance from watercourses, lakes and the
sea
12.6.5 Clearance distance from the ground water etc.
12.7 Percolation in areas where the prescribed
clearance distance from the ground water table cannot be observed
12.8
Establishment of infiltration plants
12.9
Amendment or revocation of percolation licences
12.10Administrative procedures for issuing
enforcement notices providing for percolation
12.11 Liability in connection with issuing licences
or enforcement notices for the establishment of infiltration plants
12.12 Supervision and enforcement
12.13 Allocation of competence etc. in matters
concerning percolation
12.14
Right of appeal
13. Discharge and spraying of waste water on the
surface of the ground for non-agricultural purposes
13.1
General provisions of the Environmental
Protection Act
13.2 Scope of application
13.2.1 Delimitation against other legislation
13.2.2 Use of waste products from alternative toilet
systems
13.3 Procedure for submitting applications under
the Waste Water Management Order
13.4
Regional council licences for spraying and
discharging waste water on the surface of the ground for non-agricultural purposes
13.4.1 Assessment by the Medical Officer of Health and the
District Veterinary Officer
13.4.2 Protection of ground water and surface water
13.4.3 Health risks and nuisance to neighbours
13.4.4 Compatibility with local and regional authority
planning for the area
13.4.5 Contract for discharge/spraying
13.5 Supervision and enforcement
13.6
Variation or revocation of licences
13.7 Right of appeal
14. Establishment of holding tanks for waste water -
collection, emptying and transportation
14.1
General provisions of the Environmental
Protection Act
14.2
Powers of the local council
14.2.1 Quality requirements for holding tanks
14.2.2 Siting and size of holding tanks
14.2.3 Clearance distance from abstraction plants
14.2.4 Health hazards and nuisance to neighbours
14.2.5 Emptying and disposal
14.3 Powers of regional councils
14.3.1 Delimitation against other legislation
14.3.2 Emptying and disposal
14.4 Aboveground holding tanks
14.4.1 Emptying and disposal
14.5 Establishment and emptying of holding tanks
for waste products from alternative toilet systems
14.6
Waste water stabilisation ponds without an outlet
14.6.1 Powers of local councils
14.6.2 Powers of regional council
14.6.3 Waste water stabilisation ponds with a permeable
bottom
14.7 Supervision and enforcement
14.8Variation or revocation of licences
14.9
14.9 Right of appeal
15. Collection schemes for settling tanks and holding
tanks, etc.
15.1
General provisions of the Environmental
Protection Act
15.2
Collection scheme for holding tanks etc.
15.2.1 General facts about holding tanks
15.2.2 Holding tanks etc. covered by contractual membership
of the public waste water service partnership
15.3 Collection scheme for settling tanks
15.3.1 General facts about settling tanks
15.3.2 Properties included under a collection scheme for
settling tanks
15.3.3 Settling tanks covered by contractual membership of
the public waste water service
15.4 Collection scheme for other drainage systems
15.4.1 Collection scheme for grease separators and sand
catchers
15.4.2 Emptying of oil and petrol separators
15.5 Emptying frequency
15.5.1 General
15.5.2 Emptying frequency for holding tanks etc.
15.5.3 Emptying frequency for settling tanks
15.5.4 Emptying frequency for other drainage systems
15.6 Administration of collection schemes
15.7 Right of appeal
16. Water quality standards and emission standards
for certain dangerous substances
16.1
Background of Statutory Order No. 921 of 8
October 1996
16.2 Discharges covered by Statutory Order No. 921
16.3
Basis for laying down emission standards
16.3.1 National and regional water quality standards
16.3.2 When should new quality standards be laid down?
16.3.3 Scientific basis for establishing water quality
standards
16.3.4 Water quality standards for groups of substances
16.4 Stipulating emission standards
16.4.1 Compliance with the requirement for using the best
available techniques and the quality standard fixed ("the combined or integrated
approach")
16.4.2 Initial dilution rate
16.4.3 Delimitation of an impact area for waste water
discharges
16.4.4 Existing substance concentrations in the receiving
waters
16.4.5 No increased pollution
16.4.6 Permissible substance quantities
16.5 Release monitoring requirements
16.6
Revision of existing discharge licences
16.7 Right of appeal
16.8
Future revision of Schedule 2 to Statutory Order
No. 921
17. Other provisions
17.1
Register of licences
17.2
General provisions on conditions for discharge
licences
17.2.1 Fixed-term licences
17.2.2 Provisions on supervision and monitoring
17.3 Registration
18. Administrative provisions and provisions
governing the right of appeal
18.1
Administrative provisions
18.2
Appeals and legal actions
18.2.1 Right of appeal
18.2.2 Environmental Appeal Board
19. Supervision and enforcemen
19.1
Supervision
19.2
Enforcement
20. Penalties
20.1
Penalties for violations of the Statutory Order
on the licensing of waste water discharge
20.2
Penalties for violation of municipal rules or
regulations
20.3
Criminal liability attaching to corporations
(legal entities), etc.
21. Schedules
Schedule 1 Statutory Order No. 501 of 21 June 1999 on the Licensing of Waste
Water Discharges Pursuant to Parts 3 and 4 of the Danish Environmental Protection Act.
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