1.Member States shall take the necessary measures to ensure that an application to the competent authority for a permit includes a description of:
the installation and its activities;
the raw and auxiliary materials, other substances and the energy used in or generated by the installation;
the sources of emissions from the installation;
the conditions of the site of the installation;
the nature and quantities of foreseeable emissions from the installation into each medium as well as identification of significant effects of the emissions on the environment;
the proposed technology and other techniques for preventing or, where this not possible, reducing emissions from the installation;
where necessary, measures for the prevention and recovery of waste generated by the installation;
further measures planned to comply with the general principles of the basic obligations of the operator as provided for in Article 3;
measures planned to monitor emissions into the environment;
the main alternatives, if any, studied by the applicant in outline.
An application for a permit shall also include a non-technical summary of the details referred to in points (a) to (j).
2.Where information supplied in accordance with the requirements provided for in Directive 85/337/EEC or a safety report prepared in accordance with Council Directive 96/82/EC of 9 December 1996 on the control of major-accident hazards involving dangerous substances ( 14 ) or other information produced in response to other legislation fulfils any of the requirements of this Article, that information may be included in, or attached to, the application.