The information exchange, including the steps for drawing up BREFs, is codified into law by Commission Implementing Decision 2012/119/EU[2] and commonly referred to as Sevilla process.
Most BREFs cover one or several agro-industrial activities listed in Annex I of the Industrial Emissions Directive 2010/75/EU.
This chapter is adopted as stand-alone document through Comitology and is published as EU implementing decision in the Official Journal of the European Union.
'BAT conclusions' are to be considered by Member States of the European Union as reference when setting permit conditions for all installations within the scope of the Industrial Emissions Directive.
[1] BAT conclusions are defined in Article 3(12) of the Industrial Emissions Directive 2010/75/EU as: "[...] a document containing the parts of a BAT reference document laying down the conclusions on best available techniques, their description, information to assess their applicability, the emission levels associated with the best available techniques, associated monitoring, associated consumption levels and, where appropriate, relevant site remediation measures".