The third global tendency is the introduction of standards like “Best Available Technique” (BAT), “Best Environmental Practices” (BEP) or similar. The purpose with these standards is to find the solution that is best for the environment as a whole. These standards work hand in hand with the two tendencies already mentioned. In the European Directive on Integrated Pollution Prevention & Control (the IPPC Directive) a definition of BAT is found and there are guidelines regarding what the important considerations are. The IPPC Directive does not yet apply to Oil exploration and production as such, but it applies to all installations, also within the oil exploration and production industry, for Recovery or Disposal of Hazardous waste with a capacity of more than 10 tons per day. The OSPAR Convention, clearly applicable for oil exploration and production, have definitions both of BAT and BEP, but these two definitions read in context says basically the same as the BAT definition in the IPPC Directive.