The Xunta authorizes a Galiza Verde waste plant in Rianxo

The General Directorate of Environmental Quality and Sustainability, under the Ministry of Environment and Climate Change of the Xunta de Galicia, has granted the integrated environmental authorization to Galiza Verde, S.L. for a storage and recovery plant for hazardous and non-hazardous waste in the municipality of Rianxo (A Coruña). The resolution was announced through a notice signed on October 28, 2026, by the general director, María José Echevarría Moreno, and published in the Official Gazette of Galicia (DOG) number 217, corresponding to Thursday, November 12, 2026, on page 56780. The processed administrative file is 2025-IPPC-I-8.

The content of the published resolution

The announcement includes the identifying data of the authorized facility and the procedure, although its text does not detail the technical conditions or the quantities of waste that the plant may treat. The published official information limits its description to the nature of the activity itself.

• Facility: storage and recovery plant for hazardous and non-hazardous waste.
• Procedure: integrated environmental authorization.
• Holder: Galiza Verde, S.L.
• IEA registration number: 2025-IPPC-8-394.
• Municipality: Rianxo (A Coruña).
• File: 2025-IPPC-I-8.

The publication is limited to publicizing the resolution, without the text of the announcement including the environmental conditions, emission control prescriptions, or monitoring obligations that do appear in the full articles of the authorization, accessible electronically or in person.

The legal framework of the authorization

The dissemination of the resolution was based on article 24.3 of Legislative Royal Decree 1/2016, of December 16, which approves the revised text of the Law on Integrated Pollution Prevention and Control, published in the Official State Gazette (BOE) number 316, of December 31. This state regulation is what governs the integrated environmental authorization regime, the instrument through which the regional administration establishes the environmental conditions required of an industrial facility in a single permit.

Under this framework, the integrated environmental authorization gathers requirements relating to water, atmosphere, waste, noise, and accident prevention, and its procurement is prior and mandatory for the operation of the facilities included in the annexes of the law. The procedure corresponds to the autonomous community when the facility is located within its territory, as is the case with this plant in the A Coruña municipality of Rianxo.

Where it can be consulted

According to the announcement itself, the full resolution can be consulted in two ways:

• electronically, through the search engine for integrated environmental authorization files on the website of the Ministry of Environment and Climate Change;
• in person at the General Directorate of Environmental Quality and Sustainability, at San Lázaro Street, s/n, 2nd floor, 15781 Santiago de Compostela.

The official document is identified by the reference CVE-DOG: azfh4036-gus0-pwg8-v1u9-3bpk5wtf0tp5, which allows for its direct location in the Official Gazette of the Galician State.

The publication of this authorization closes the administrative processing phase and opens the way for the plant to operate under the conditions set out in the requirements, which are not reproduced in the announcement. For the residents of Rianxo and for the industrial fabric of the region, this step is relevant because it entails the commissioning of a facility dedicated to the management of hazardous waste, whose specific operation and control obligations can only be verified by consulting the full resolution in the regional registry. Anyone interested in knowing the limits of the authorized activity must refer to that document, as the text published in the DOG functions solely as official notification of the granting.

Source: Official Gazette of Galicia (DOG), no. 217, November 12, 2026, section VI. Announcements, p. 56780 (official reference: CVE-DOG azfh4036-gus0-pwg8-v1u9-3bpk5wtf0tp5).