ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on the production of Chief Inspector’s Guidance Notes (CIGN). It considers the central role CIGNs that were intended to play in integrated pollution control (IPC) implementation and analyses their production. Access to copies of draft CIGNs for prescribed organic chemical processes, comments from operators arising during formal consultation, and the final CIGNs themselves allow their development to be tracked. The organic chemicals sector is a complex and pervasive element of the chemical industry. The chapter seeks to demonstrate how a policy community reformed for IPC implementation, explores characteristics similar to that which implemented industrial air pollution policy. It explains how processes in the organic chemical sector are often not as homogenous as in other industrial sectors. The approach adopted HM Inspectorate of Pollution for organic chemical CIGNs followed that for earlier industrial sectors and was repeated for subsequent sectors.
