25.2.13

The Minister of the Environment Evangelos Livieratos has signed a ministerial decree for the environmental certification of electrical and thermal energy production plants using biogas, deriving from the anaerobic treatment f biomass.

Waste management can be a serious problem since in many cases, waste is improperly disposed of, damaging the environment and polluting water supplies. Biogas units are an important solution, since the waste and refuse from farming units, abattoirs, agricultural and food industries, as it is now used as a primary source for the production of electric energy

The ministerial decree clarifies studies on the environmental impact and approval decision of environmental terms of such installations, specifies the means by which biomass residue is removed from bio-reactors, simplifies the necessary certification procedure and sets out a list of obligations to facilitate the inspection of biogas units.