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.