Multi-Criteria Decision Support for Integrated Technique assessment

The European Directive on the Integrated Pollution Prevention and Control (IPPC 96/61/EG) calls for a cross media impact assessment of environmentally relevant installations. Thus, the concept of Integrated Technique Assessment, based on detailed mass and energy balances and a multi-criteria analysis, can be adapted to the determination of Best Available Techniques (BAT). Therefore, this paper provides a rough overview on multi-criteria decision support for t chnique assessment. A case study compares the application of different primers for vehicle refinishing.