The Environmental Permitting (England and Wales) Regulations 2010

Made: 10th March 2010

Coming into force in accordance with regulation 1(1)(b)

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PART 1 — General

Citation, commencement, extent and application

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Interpretation: general

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Interpretation: Directives

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Exempt facilities

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Interpretation: exempt facilities

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Interpretation: local authority

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Interpretation: operate a regulated facility and operator

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Interpretation: regulated facility and class of regulated facility

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Interpretation: relevant function

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Giving notices, notifications and directions, and the submission of forms

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PART 2 — Environmental Permits

CHAPTER 1 — Application to the Crown and requirement for an environmental permit

Application to the Crown

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Requirement for environmental permit

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CHAPTER 2 — Grant of an environmental permit

Grant of an environmental permit

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Content and form of an environmental permit

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Conditions in relation to certain land

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Mobile plant operating on the site of another regulated facility: conflict of permit conditions

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Single site permits etc.

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Consolidation of an environmental permit

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Subsistence of an environmental permit

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CHAPTER 3 — Variation, transfer, revocation and surrender of an environmental permit

Variation of an environmental permit

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Transfer of an environmental permit

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Revocation of an environmental permit: general

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Revocation of an environmental permit: steps to be taken after the revocation takes effect

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Notification of the surrender of an environmental permit

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Application for the surrender of an environmental permit

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CHAPTER 4 — Standard rules

Preparation and revision of standard rules

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Standard rules as conditions of an environmental permit

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Notification of revisions of standard rules

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Revocation of standard rules

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Variation of an environmental permit: revocation of standard rules

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CHAPTER 5 — Appeals in relation to environmental permits

Appeals to an appropriate authority

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PART 3 — Discharge of functions in relation to a regulated facility

Discharge of functions

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Direction to a regulator: discharge of functions by a different regulator

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Review of environmental permits and inspection of regulated facilities

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Specific provisions applying to environmental permits

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PART 4 — Enforcement and offences

Enforcement notices

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Suspension notices

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Offences

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Penalties

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Defences

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Offences by bodies corporate

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Enforcement by the High Court

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Admissibility of evidence

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Power of court to order cause of offence to be remedied

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PART 5 — Public Registers

Interpretation of this Part

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Duty of the regulator to maintain a public register

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Exclusion from public registers of information affecting national security

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Exclusion from public registers of confidential information

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Procedure if the regulator considers that information may be confidential

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Duty to determine confidentiality

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Determination of confidentiality

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Procedure following a determination

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Appeals in relation to confidentiality

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Consequences of an appeal

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Reconsideration of confidentiality

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Directions of the appropriate authority in relation to confidentiality

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PART 6 — Powers and functions of the regulator and the appropriate authority

Power of the regulator to prevent or remedy pollution

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Environment Agency: notices in relation to emissions to water

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Environment Agency: public participation statement

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Power to require the provision of information

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Directions to regulators and exemption registration authorities: general

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Reference of applications to an appropriate authority

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Directions to the Agency: installations outside the United Kingdom

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Guidance to regulators and exemption registration authorities

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Fees and charges in relation to the exercise of regulator's functions by local authorities

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Plans relating to emissions

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PART 7 — Miscellaneous provisions

Chapter 1 — Interpretation

Interpretation of this Part

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Chapter 2 — Further provision – waste and extractive waste

Further provision in relation to waste and extractive waste

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Chapter 3 — Transitional provisions - former enactments

Existing permits

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Site plans not required for existing permits

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Review of existing groundwater permits

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Radioactive substances exemption orders

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Exempt water discharge activities

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Exempt groundwater activities

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Transitional applications

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Transfer notices under former enactments

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Existing notices under former enactments

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Outstanding appeals against existing notices

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Appeals under these Regulations against existing notices

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Decisions under former enactments

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Outstanding appeals against decisions under former enactments

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Appeals under these Regulations against decisions under former enactments

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Existing directions under former enactments

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Public registers under former enactments

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Recovery of expenses for disposal of radioactive waste

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Chapter 4 — Transitional provisions – the 2007 Regulations and former PPC or waste legislation

Existing environmental permits

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Applications under the 2007 Regulations

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Applications for grant of PPC permit or waste management licence

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2007 transitional applications for grant of PPC permit, other than in relation to landfill

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2007 transitional applications for grant of PPC permit in relation to landfill

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2007 transitional applications for grant of PPC permit in relation to landfill: applications determined under the 2007 Regulations

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2007 transitional applications not relating to grant of PPC permit

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Notifications of surrender

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Existing notices under the 2007 Regulations or former PPC or waste legislation

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Outstanding appeals against existing notices

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Appeals under these Regulations against existing notices

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Decisions under the 2007 Regulations or former PPC or waste legislation

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Outstanding appeals against decisions under the 2007 Regulations or former PPC or waste legislation

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Appeals under these Regulations against decisions under the 2007 Regulations or former PPC or waste legislation

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Other existing notices and instruments

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Existing directions under the 2007 Regulations

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Public registers

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Existing exempt waste operations

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Existing Part A(1) installations

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Existing mining waste operations

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Chapter 5 — Savings and consequential provisions

Savings

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Consequential amendments

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Revocations

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Repeals

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SCHEDULE 1 — Activities, installations and mobile plant

PART 1 — Interpretation and application: general

Interpretation

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Activities falling within more than one Part description

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Application of activities falling within Sections 1.1 to 6.9 of Part 2

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Capacity: Part A(1) and A(2) descriptions

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Operation below thresholds: effect on the installation

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Application of Part B activities: releases into the air

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References to releases into water

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References to certain substances

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PART 2 — Activities

CHAPTER 1 — Energy activities

SECTION 1.1 — Combustion activities

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• Part A(1) Burning any fuel in an appliance with a rated thermal input of 50 or more megawatts. Unless carried on as part of a Part A(2) or Part B activity, burning any— waste oil; recovered oil; or fuel manufactured from, or comprising, any other waste, in an appliance with a rated thermal input of 3 or more megawatts, but less than 50 megawatts.

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• Part B Unless falling within Part A(1)(a) of this Section— Burning any fuel (other than a fuel mentioned in Part A(1)(b)) in— a boiler; a furnace; a gas turbine; or a compression ignition engine, with a net rated thermal input of 20 or more megawatts, but a rated thermal input of less than50megawatts. Burning any— waste oil; recovered oil; solid fuel which has been manufactured from waste by an activity involving the application of heat, in an appliance with a rated thermal input of less than 3 megawatts. Burning fuel manufactured from or including waste (other than a fuel mentioned in paragraph (b)) in an appliance with a net rated thermal input of 0.4 or more megawatts, but a rated thermal input of less than 3 megawatts. Burning fuel manufactured from or including waste (other than a fuel mentioned in paragraph (b)) in 2 or more appliances which have a combined net rated thermal input of0.4 or more megawatts, but a rated thermal input of less than 3 megawatts.

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SECTION 1.2 — Gasification, Liquefaction and Refining Activities

• Part A(1) Refining gas where this is likely to involve the use of 1,000 or more tonnes of gas in any12-month period. Reforming natural gas. Operating coke ovens. Coal or lignite gasification. Producing gas from oil or other carbonaceous material (or from mixtures of oil or other carbonaceous material), other than from sewage, unless the production is carried on as part of an activity which is a combustion activity (whether or not that combustion activity is described in Section1.1). Purifying or refining any product of any of the activities falling within paragraphs (a) to(e) or converting it into a different product. Refining mineral oils. The loading, unloading, handling or storage of, or the physical, chemical or thermal treatment of— crude oil; stabilised crude petroleum; crude shale oil; where related to another activity described in this paragraph, any associated gas or condensate; or emulsified hydrocarbons intended for use as a fuel. The further refining, conversion or use (otherwise than as a fuel or solvent) of the product of any activity falling within paragraph (g) or (h) in the manufacture of a chemical. Activities involving the pyrolysis, carbonisation, distillation, liquefaction, gasification, partial oxidation or other heat treatment of— coal (other than the drying of coal); lignite; oil; other carbonaceous material; or mixtures of any of these, otherwise than with a view to making charcoal. Odorising natural gas or liquefied petroleum gas where that activity is related to a PartA activity.

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• Part A(2) Refining gas where this activity does not fall within Part A(1)(a) of this Section.

• Part B Blending odorant for use with natural gas or liquefied petroleum gas. The storage of petrol in stationary storage tanks at a terminal, or the loading or unloading at a terminal of petrol into or from road tankers, rail tankers or inland waterway vessels. The unloading of petrol into stationary storage tanks at a service station, if the total quantity of petrol unloaded into such tanks at the service station in any 12-month period is likely to be 500m³ or more. Motor vehicle refuelling activities at an existing service station after the prescribed date, if the petrol refuelling throughput at the existing service station in any 12-month period is, or is likely to be, 3500m³ or more. Motor vehicle refuelling activities at a new service station, if the petrol refuelling throughput at the service station in any 12-month period is likely to be 500m³ or more.

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CHAPTER 2 — Production and Processing of Metals

SECTION 2.1 — Ferrous Metals

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• Part A(1) Roasting or sintering metal ore, including sulphide ore, or any mixture of iron ore with or without other materials. Producing, melting or refining iron or steel or any ferrous alloy, including continuous casting, except where the only furnaces used are— electric arc furnaces with a designed holding capacity of less than 7 tonnes, or cupola, crucible, reverbatory, rotary, induction, vacuum, electro-slag or resistance furnaces. Processing ferrous metals and their alloys by using hot-rolling mills with a production capacity of more than 20 tonnes of crude steel per hour. Loading, unloading or otherwise handling or storing more than 500,000 tonnes in total in any 12-month period of iron ore, except in the course of mining operations, or burnt pyrites.

• Part A(2) Unless falling within Part A(1)(b) of this Section, producing pig iron or steel, including continuous casting, in a plant with a production capacity of more than 2.5 tonnes per hour. Operating hammers in a forge, the energy of which is more than 50 kilojoules per hammer, where the calorific power used is more than 20 megawatts. Applying protective fused metal coatings with an input of more than 2 tonnes of crude steel per hour. Casting ferrous metal at a foundry with a production capacity of more than 20 tonnes per day.

• Part B Unless falling within Part A(1)(b) of this Section, producing pig iron or steel, including continuous casting, in a plant with a production capacity of 2.5 or less tonnes per hour. Unless falling within Part A(2)(a) or (d) of this Section, producing, melting or refining iron or steel or any ferrous alloy (other than producing pig iron or steel, including continuous casting) using— one or more electric arc furnaces, none of which has a designed holding capacity of 7 or more tonnes; or a cupola, crucible, reverberatory, rotary, induction, electro-slag or resistance furnace. Desulphurising iron, steel or any ferrous alloy. Heating iron, steel or any ferrous alloy (whether in a furnace or other appliance) to remove grease, oil or any other non-metallic contaminant (including such operations as the removal by heat of plastic or rubber covering from scrap cable) unless— it is carried on in one or more furnaces or other appliances the primary combustion chambers of which have in aggregate a rated thermal input of less than0.2 megawatts; it does not involve the removal by heat of plastic or rubber covering from scrap cable or of any asbestos contaminant; and it is not related to any other activity falling within this Part of this Section. Unless falling within Part A(1) or Part A(2) of this Section, casting iron, steel or any ferrous alloy from deliveries of 50 or more tonnes of molten metal.

SECTION 2.2 — Non-Ferrous Metals

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• Part A(1) Unless falling within Part A(2) of this Section, producing non-ferrous metals from ore, concentrates or secondary raw materials by metallurgical, chemical or electrolytic activities. Melting, including making alloys, of non-ferrous metals, including recovered products (such as refining or foundry casting) where— the plant has a melting capacity of more than 4 tonnes per day for lead or cadmium or 20 tonnes per day for all other metals; and any furnace (other than a vacuum furnace), bath or other holding vessel used in the plant for the melting has a design holding capacity of 5 or more tonnes. Except where the activity is related to an activity described in Part A(2)(a), or Part B(a), (d) or (e) of this Section, refining any non-ferrous metal or alloy, other than the electrolytic refining of copper. Producing, melting or recovering by chemical means or by the use of heat, lead or any lead alloy, if— the activity may result in the release into the air of lead; and in the case of lead alloy, the percentage by weight of lead in the alloy in molten form is more than 23 per cent if the alloy contains copper and 2 per cent in other cases. Recovering any gallium, indium, palladium, tellurium or thallium if the activity may result in their release into the air. Producing, melting or recovering (whether by chemical means or by electrolysis or by the use of heat) cadmium or mercury or any alloy containing more than 0.05 per cent by weight of either of those metals or both in aggregate. Mining zinc- or tin-bearing ores where the activity may result in the release into water of cadmium or any compound of cadmium in a concentration which is greater than the background concentration. Manufacturing or repairing involving the use of beryllium or selenium or an alloy containing one or both of those metals, if the activity may result in the release into the air of any substance in paragraph 6(3) of Part 1 of this Schedule; but an activity does not fall within this paragraph by reason of it involving an alloy that contains beryllium if that alloy in molten form contains less than 0.1 per cent by weight of beryllium and the activity falls within Part B(a) or (d) of this Section. Pelletising, calcining, roasting or sintering any non-ferrous metal ore or any mixture of such ore and other materials.

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• Part A(2) Melting, including making alloys, of non-ferrous metals, including recovered products (such as refining or foundry casting) where— the plant has a melting capacity of more than 4 tonnes per day for lead or cadmium or 20 tonnes per day for all other metals, and no furnace (other than a vacuum furnace), bath or other holding vessel used in the plant for the melting has a design holding capacity of 5 or more tonnes; or the plant uses a vacuum furnace of any design holding capacity.

• Part B Melting, including making alloys, of non-ferrous metals (other than tin or any alloy which in molten form contains 50 per cent or more by weight of tin), including recovered products (such as refining or foundry casting) in plant with a melting capacity of 4 tonnes or less per day for lead or cadmium or 20 tonnes or less per day for all other metals. The heating in a furnace or any other appliance of any non-ferrous metal or non-ferrous metal alloy for the purpose of removing grease, oil or any other non-metallic contaminant, including such operations as the removal by heat of plastic or rubber covering from scrap cable, if not related to another activity described in this Part of this Section; but an activity does not fall within this paragraph if— it involves the use of one or more furnaces or other appliances the primary combustion chambers of which have in aggregate a net rated thermal input of less than 0.2 megawatts; and it does not involve the removal by heat of plastic or rubber covering from scrap cable or of any asbestos contaminant. Melting zinc or a zinc alloy in conjunction with a galvanising activity at a rate of 20 or less tonnes per day. Melting zinc, aluminium or magnesium or an alloy of one or more of these metals in conjunction with a die-casting activity at a rate of 20 or less tonnes per day. Unless falling within Part A(1) or Part A(2) of this Section, the separation of copper, aluminium, magnesium or zinc from mixed scrap by differential melting.

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SECTION 2.3 — Surface Treating Metals and Plastic Materials

• Part A(1) Unless falling within Part A(2) of this Section, surface treating metals and plastic materials using an electrolytic or chemical process where the aggregated volume of the treatment vats is more than 30m³.

• Part A(2) Surface treating metals and plastic materials using an electrolytic or chemical process where the aggregated volume of the treatment vats is more than 30m³ and where the activity is carried on at the same installation as one or more activities falling within— Part A(2) or Part B of Section 2.1; Part A(2) or Part B of Section 2.2; or Part A(2) or Part B of Section 6.4.

• Part B Any process for the surface treatment of metal which is likely to result in the release into air of any acid-forming oxide of nitrogen and which does not fall within Part A(1) or PartA(2) of this Section.

CHAPTER 3 — Mineral Industries

SECTION 3.1 — Production of Cement and Lime

• Part A(1) Producing cement clinker or producing and grinding cement clinker. Producing lime— in kilns or other furnaces with a production capacity of more than 50 tonnes per day; or if the activity is likely to involve the heating in any 12-month period of 5,000 or more tonnes of calcium carbonate or calcium magnesium carbonate or both in aggregate.

• Part A(2) Unless falling with Part A(1) of this Section, grinding cement clinker. Unless falling within Part A(1) of Section 2.1 or 2.2, grinding metallurgical slag in plant with a grinding capacity of more than 250,000 tonnes in any 12-month period.

• Part B Storing, loading or unloading cement or cement clinker in bulk prior to further transportation in bulk. Blending cement in bulk or using cement in bulk other than at a construction site, including the bagging of cement and cement mixtures, the batching of ready-mixed concrete and the manufacture of concrete blocks and other cement products. Slaking lime for the purpose of making calcium hydroxide or calcium magnesium hydroxide. Producing lime where the activity is not likely to involve the heating in any 12-month period of 5,000 or more tonnes of calcium carbonate or calcium magnesium carbonate or both in aggregate.

SECTION 3.2 — Activities Involving Asbestos

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• Part A(1) Producing asbestos or manufacturing products based on or containing asbestos. Stripping asbestos from railway vehicles except— in the course of the repair or maintenance of the vehicle; in the course of recovery operations following an accident; or where the asbestos is permanently bonded in cement or in any other material (including plastic, rubber or resin). Destroying a railway vehicle by burning if asbestos has been incorporated in, or sprayed on to, its structure.

• Part B Unless related to an activity falling within Part A(1) of this Section, the industrial finishing of— asbestos cement; asbestos cement products; asbestos fillers; asbestos filters; asbestos floor coverings; asbestos friction products; asbestos insulating board; asbestos jointing, packaging or reinforcement material; asbestos packing; asbestos paper or card; or asbestos textiles.

SECTION 3.3 — Manufacturing Glass and Glass Fibre

• Part A(1) Manufacturing glass fibre. Manufacturing glass frit or enamel frit and its use in any activity where that activity is related to its manufacture and the aggregate quantity of such substances manufactured in any 12-month period is likely to be 100 or more tonnes.

• Part A(2) Manufacturing glass, unless falling within Part A(1) of this Section, where the melting capacity of the plant is more than 20 tonnes per day.

• Part B Unless falling within Part A(1) or Part A(2) of this Section— Manufacturing glass at any location with the capacity to make 5,000 or more tonnes of glass in any 12-month period, and any activity involving the use of glass which is carried on at any such location in conjunction with its manufacture. Manufacturing glass where the use of lead or any lead compound is involved. Manufacturing any glass product where lead or any lead compound has been used in the manufacture of the glass except— making products from lead glass blanks; or melting, or mixing with another substance, glass manufactured elsewhere to produce articles such as ornaments or road paint. Polishing or etching glass or glass products in the course of any manufacturing activity if— hydrofluoric acid is used; or hydrogen fluoride may be released into the air. Manufacturing glass frit or enamel frit and its use in any activity where that activity is related to its manufacture.

SECTION 3.4 — Production of Other Mineral Fibres

• Part A(1) Unless falling within Part A(1) or Part A(2) of Section 3.3, melting mineral substances in plant with a melting capacity of more than 20 tonnes per day. Unless falling within Part A(1) of Section 3.3, producing any fibre from any mineral.

SECTION 3.5 — Other Mineral Activities

• Part A(2) Manufacturing cellulose fibre reinforced calcium silicate board using unbleached pulp.

• Part B Unless falling within Part A(1) or Part A(2) of any Section, the crushing, grinding or other size reduction, other than the cutting of stone, or the grading, screening or heating of any designated mineral or mineral product except where the operation of the activity is unlikely to result in the release into the air of particulate matter. Any of the following activities unless carried on at an exempt location— crushing, grinding or otherwise breaking up coal, coke or any other coal product; screening, grading or mixing coal, coke or any other coal product; loading or unloading petroleum coke, coal, coke or any other coal product except unloading on retail sale. The crushing, grinding or other size reduction, with machinery designed for that purpose, of bricks, tiles or concrete. Screening the product of any activity described in paragraph (c). Coating road stone with tar or bitumen. Loading, unloading or storing pulverised fuel ash in bulk prior to further transportation in bulk. The fusion of calcined bauxite for the production of artificial corundum.

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SECTION 3.6 — Ceramic Production

• Part A(1) Manufacturing ceramic products (including roofing tiles, bricks, refractory bricks, tiles, stoneware or porcelain) by firing in kilns, where— the kiln production capacity is more than 75 tonnes per day; or the kiln capacity is more than 4m³ and the setting density is more than 300 kg/m³, and a reducing atmosphere is used other than for the purposes of colouration.

• Part A(2) Unless falling within Part A(1) of this Section, manufacturing ceramic products (including roofing tiles, bricks, refractory bricks, tiles, stoneware or porcelain) by firing in kilns, where— the kiln production capacity is more than 75 tonnes per day; or the kiln capacity is more than 4m³ and the setting density is more than 300 kg/m³.

• Part B Unless falling within Part A(1) or A(2) of this Section, firing heavy clay goods or refractory materials (other than heavy clay goods) in a kiln. Vapour glazing earthenware or clay with salts.

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CHAPTER 4 — The Chemical Industry

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SECTION 4.1 — Organic Chemicals

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• Part A(1) Producing organic chemicals such as— hydrocarbons (linear or cyclic, saturated or unsaturated, aliphatic or aromatic); organic compounds containing oxygen (for example alcohols, aldehydes, ketones, carboxylic acids, esters, ethers, peroxides, phenols, epoxy resins); organic compounds containing sulphur (for example sulphides, mercaptans, sulphonic acids, sulphonates, sulphates and sulphones and sulphur heterocyclics); organic compounds containing nitrogen (for example amines, amides, nitrous-, nitro- or azo-compounds, nitrates, nitriles, nitrogen heterocyclics, cyanates, isocyanates, di-isocyanates and di-isocyanate prepolymers); organic compounds containing phosphorus (for example substituted phosphines and phosphate esters); organic compounds containing halogens (for example halocarbons, halogenated aromatic compounds and acid halides); organometallic compounds (for example lead alkyls, Grignard reagents and lithium alkyls); plastic materials (for example polymers, synthetic fibres and cellulose-based fibres); synthetic rubbers; dyes and pigments; surface-active agents. Producing any other organic compounds not described in paragraph (a). Polymerising or co-polymerising any unsaturated hydrocarbon or vinyl chloride (other than a pre-formulated resin or pre-formulated gel coat which contains any unsaturated hydrocarbon) which is likely to involve, in any 12-month period, the polymerisation or co-polymerisation of 50 or more tonnes of any of those materials, or any combination of those materials in aggregate. Any activity involving the use in any 12-month period of 1 or more tonnes of toluene di-isocyanate or other di-isocyanate of comparable volatility or, where partly polymerised, the use of partly polymerised di-isocyanates or prepolymers containing 1 or more tonnes of those monomers, if the activity may result in a release into the air which contains such a di-isocyanate monomer. The flame bonding of polyurethane foams or polyurethane elastomers. Recovering— carbon disulphide; pyridine or any substituted pyridine. Recovering or purifying acrylic acid, substituted acrylic acid or any ester of acrylic acid or of substituted acrylic acid.

• Part B Unless falling within Part A(1) of this Section, any activity where the carrying on of the activity by the person concerned at the location in question is likely to involve the use in any 12-month period of 5 tonnes or more of any di-isocyanate or of any partly polymerised di-isocyanate or, in aggregate, of both. Cutting polyurethane foams or polyurethane elastomers with heated wires. Any activity for the polymerisation or co-polymerisation of any pre-formulated resin or pre-formulated gel coat which contains any unsaturated hydrocarbon, where the activity is likely to involve, in any 12-month period, the polymerisation or co-polymerisation of 100 or more tonnes of unsaturated hydrocarbon. Unless falling within Part A(1) of this Section, any activity involving the use of toluene di-isocyanate or partly polymerised di-isocyanate if— less than 1 tonne of toluene di-isocyanate monomer is likely to be used in any 12-month period; and the activity may result in a release into the air which contains toluene di-isocyanate.

SECTION 4.2 — Inorganic Chemicals

• Part A(1) Producing inorganic chemicals such as— gases (for example ammonia, hydrogen chloride, hydrogen fluoride, hydrogen cyanide, hydrogen sulphide, oxides of carbon, sulphur compounds, oxides of nitrogen, hydrogen, oxides of sulphur, phosgene); acids (for example chromic acid, hydrofluoric acid, hydrochloric acid, hydrobromic acid, hydroiodic acid, phosphoric acid, nitric acid, sulphuric acid, oleum and chlorosulphonic acid); bases (for example ammonium hydroxide, potassium hydroxide, sodium hydroxide); salts (for example ammonium chloride, potassium chlorate, potassium carbonate, sodium carbonate, perborate, silver nitrate, cupric acetate, ammonium phosphomolybdate); non-metals, metal oxides, metal carbonyls or other inorganic compounds (for example calcium carbide, silicon, silicon carbide, titanium dioxide); halogens or interhalogen compounds comprising 2 or more of halogens, or any compound comprising one or more of those halogens and oxygen. Unless falling within any other Section, any manufacturing activity which is likely to result in the release into the air of any hydrogen halide (other than the manufacture of glass or the coating, plating or surface treatment of metal) or which is likely to result in the release into the air or water of any halogen or any of the compounds mentioned in paragraph (a)(vi) (other than the treatment of water). Unless falling within any other Section, any manufacturing activity involving the use of hydrogen cyanide or hydrogen sulphide. Unless falling within any other Section, any manufacturing activity (other than the application of a glaze or vitreous enamel) involving the use of, or the use or recovery of, any compound of any of the following elements— antimony; arsenic; beryllium; gallium; indium; lead; palladium; platinum; selenium; tellurium; thallium, where the activity may result in the release into the air of any of those elements or compounds or the release into water of any substance listed in paragraph 7 of Part 1 of this Schedule. Recovering any compound of cadmium or mercury. Unless falling within any other Section, any manufacturing activity involving the use of mercury or cadmium or any compound of either element or which may result in the release into air of either of those elements or their compounds. Unless carried on as part of any other activity within this Schedule— recovering, concentrating or distilling sulphuric acid or oleum; recovering nitric acid; purifying phosphoric acid. Unless falling within any other Section, any activity (other than the combustion or incineration of carbonaceous material as defined in the Interpretation of Part A(1) of Section 1.2) which is likely to result in the release into the air of any acid-forming oxide of nitrogen. Unless carried on as part of any other activity within this Schedule, recovering ammonia. Extracting any magnesium compound from sea water.

SECTION 4.3 — Chemical Fertiliser Production

• Part A(1) Producing (including any blending which is related to their production) phosphorus-, nitrogen- or potassium-based fertilisers (simple or compound fertilisers). Converting chemical fertilisers into granules.

SECTION 4.4 — Plant Health Products and Biocides

• Part A(1) Producing plant health products or biocides. Formulating such products if this may result in the release into water of any substance listed in paragraph 7 of Part 1 of this Schedule in a quantity which, in any 12-month period, is greater than the background quantity by more than the amount specified in that paragraph for that substance.

SECTION 4.5 — Pharmaceutical Production

• Part A(1) Producing pharmaceutical products using a chemical or biological process. Formulating such products if this may result in the release into water of any substance listed in paragraph 7 of Part 1 of this Schedule in a quantity which, in any 12-month period, is greater than the background quantity by more than the amount specified in that paragraph for that substance.

SECTION 4.6 — Explosives Production

• Part A(1) Producing explosives.

SECTION 4.7 — Manufacturing Activities Involving Carbon Disulphide or Ammonia

• Part A(1) Unless falling within Part A(2) of Section 6.7, any manufacturing activity which may result in the release of carbon disulphide into the air. Any activity for the manufacture of a chemical which may result in the release of ammonia into the air other than an activity in which ammonia is only used as a refrigerant.

SECTION 4.8 — The Storage of Chemicals in Bulk

• Part B The storage in tanks, other than in tanks for the time being forming part of a powered vehicle, of any of the substances listed below except where the total storage capacity of the tanks installed at the location in question in which the relevant substance may be stored is less than the figure specified below in relation to that substance— one or more acrylates, 20 tonnes (in aggregate); acrylonitrile, 20 tonnes; anhydrous ammonia, 100 tonnes; anhydrous hydrogen fluoride, 1 tonne; toluene di-isocyanate, 20 tonnes; vinyl chloride monomer, 20 tonnes; ethylene, 8,000 tonnes.

CHAPTER 5 — Waste Management

SECTION 5.1 — Incineration and Co-incineration of Waste

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• Part A(1) The incineration of hazardous waste in an incineration plant. Unless carried on as part of any other Part A(1) activity, the incineration of hazardous waste in a co-incineration plant. The incineration of non-hazardous waste in an incineration plant with a capacity of 1 tonne or more per hour. Unless carried on as part of any other activity in Part A(1), the incineration of hazardous waste in a plant which is not an incineration plant or a co-incineration plant. Unless carried on as part of any other activity in Part A(1), the incineration of non-hazardous waste in a plant which is not an incineration plant or a co-incineration plant but which has a capacity of 1 tonne or more per hour. The incineration, other than incidentally in the course of burning landfill gas or solid or liquid waste, of any gaseous compound containing halogens in a plant which is not an incineration plant or a co-incineration plant.

• Part A(2) The incineration of non-hazardous waste in an incineration plant with a capacity of less than 1 tonne per hour. Unless carried on as part of any other Part A activity, the incineration of non-hazardous waste in a co-incineration plant. The incineration of animal carcasses in a plant, which is not an incineration plant or a co-incineration plant, with a capacity of more than 10 tonnes per day but less than 1 tonne per hour.

• Part B The incineration of non-hazardous waste in a plant which is— not an incineration plant or a co-incineration plant, and on premises where there is plant, other than incineration plant or co-incineration plant, which has an aggregate capacity of 50 kilogrammes or more per hour but less than 1 tonne per hour. The cremation of human remains.

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SECTION 5.2 — Disposal of Waste by Landfill

• Part A(1) The disposal of waste in a landfill— receiving more than 10 tonnes of waste in any day, or with a total capacity of more than 25,000 tonnes, but excluding disposals in a landfill taking only inert waste.

SECTION 5.3 — Disposal of Waste other than by Incineration or Landfill

• Part A(1) The disposal of hazardous waste (other than by incineration or landfill) in a facility with a capacity of more than 10 tonnes per day. The disposal of waste oils (other than by incineration or landfill) in a facility with a capacity of more than 10 tonnes per day. Disposal of non-hazardous waste in a facility with a capacity of more than 50 tonnes per day by— biological treatment, not being treatment specified in any paragraph other than paragraph D8 of Annex IIA to the Waste Framework Directive, which results in final compounds or mixtures which are discarded by means of any of the operations numbered D1 to D12 in that Annex (D8), or physico-chemical treatment, not being treatment specified in any paragraph other than paragraph D9 in Annex IIA to the Waste Framework Directive, which results in final compounds or mixtures which are discarded by means of any of the operations numbered D1 to D12 in that Annex (for example, evaporation, drying, calcination, etc) (D9).

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SECTION 5.4 — Recovery of Waste

• Part A(1) Recovering by distillation of any oil or organic solvent. Cleaning or regenerating carbon, charcoal or ion exchange resins by removing matter which is, or includes, any substance listed in paragraphs 6 to 8 of Part 1 of this Schedule. Unless carried on as part of any other Part A activity, recovering hazardous waste in a plant with a capacity of more than 10 tonnes per day by means of the following operations— the use principally as a fuel or other means to generate energy (R1), solvent reclamation/regeneration (R2), recycling/reclamation of inorganic materials other than metals and metal compounds(R5), regeneration of acids or bases (R6), recovering components used for pollution abatement (R7), recovery of components from catalysts (R8), oil re-refining or other reuses of oil (R9).

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SECTION 5.5 — The Production of Fuel from Waste

• Part A(1) Making solid fuel (other than charcoal) from waste by any process involving the use of heat.

CHAPTER 6 — Other Activities

SECTION 6.1 — Paper, Pulp and Board Manufacturing Activities

• Part A(1) Producing, in industrial plant, pulp from timber or other fibrous materials. Producing, in industrial plant, paper and board where the plant has a production capacity of more than 20 tonnes per day. Any activity associated with making paper pulp or paper, including activities connected with the recycling of paper such as de-inking, if the activity may result in the release into water of any substance in paragraph 7 of Part 1 of this Schedule in a quantity which, in any 12-month period, is greater than the background quantity by more than the amount specified in that paragraph in relation to that substance.

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• Part A(2) Manufacturing wood particleboard, oriented strand board, wood fibreboard, plywood, cement-bonded particleboard or any other composite wood-based board.

SECTION 6.2 — Carbon Activities

• Part A(1) Producing carbon or hard-burnt coal or electro-graphite by means of incineration or graphitisation.

SECTION 6.3 — Tar and Bitumen Activities

• Part A(1) The following activities— distilling tar or bitumen in connection with any process of manufacture, or heating tar for the manufacture of electrodes or carbon-based refractory materials, where the activity is likely to involve the use in any 12-month period of 5 or more tonnes of tar or of bitumen or both in aggregate.

• Part B Any activity not falling within Part A(1) of this Section or of Section 6.2 involving— heating, but not distilling, tar or bitumen in connection with any manufacturing activity, or oxidising bitumen by blowing air through it, at plant where no other activities described in any Section in this Schedule are carried on, where the carrying on of the activity is likely to involve the use in any 12-month period of5 or more tonnes of tar or bitumen or both in aggregate.

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SECTION 6.4 — Coating Activities, Printing and Textile Treatments

• Part A(1) Applying or removing a coating material containing any tributyltin compound or triphenyltin compound, if carried on at a shipyard or boatyard where vessels of a length of25metres or more can be built, maintained or repaired. Pre-treating (by operations such as washing, bleaching or mercerization) or dyeing fibres or textiles in plant with a treatment capacity of more than 10 tonnes per day. Treating textiles if the activity may result in the release into water of any substance in paragraph 7 of Part 1 of this Schedule in a quantity which, in any 12-month period, is greater than the background quantity by more than the amount specified in that paragraph in relation to that substance.

• Part A(2) Unless falling within Part A(1) of this Section, surface treating substances, objects or products using organic solvents, in particular for dressing, printing, coating, degreasing, waterproofing, sizing, painting, cleaning or impregnating, in plant with a consumption capacity of more than 150 kg per hour or more than 200 tonnes per year.

• Part B Unless falling within Part A(1) or Part A(2) of this Section or Part A(2)(c) of Section2.1, any process (other than for the re-painting or re-spraying of or of parts of aircraft or road or railway vehicles) for applying to a substrate, or drying or curing after such application, printing ink or paint or any other coating material as, or in the course of, a manufacturing activity, where the process may result in the release into the air of particulate matter or of any volatile organic compound and is likely to involve the use in any 12-month period of— 20 or more tonnes of printing ink, paint or other coating material which is applied in solid form, 20 or more tonnes of any metal coating which is sprayed on in molten form, 25 or more tonnes of organic solvents in respect of any cold set web offset printing activity or any sheet fed offset litho printing activity, or 5 or more tonnes of organic solvents in respect of any activity not mentioned in sub-paragraph (iii). Unless falling within Part A(2) of this Section, re-painting or re-spraying road vehicles or parts of them if the activity may result in the release into the air of particulate matter or of any volatile organic compound and the carrying on of the activity is likely to involve the use of 1 or more tonne of organic solvents in any 12-month period. Re-painting or re-spraying aircraft or railway vehicles or parts of them if the activity may result in the release into the air of particulate matter or of any volatile organic compound and the carrying on of the activity is likely to involve the use in any 12-month period of— 20 or more tonnes of any paint or other coating material which is applied in solid form, 20 or more tonnes of any metal coatings which are sprayed on in molten form, or 5 or more tonnes of organic solvents.

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SECTION 6.5 — The Manufacture of Dyestuffs, Printing Ink and Coating Materials

• Part B Unless falling within Part A(1) or Part A(2) of any other Section— manufacturing or formulating printing ink or any other coating material containing, or involving the use of, an organic solvent, where the carrying on of the activity is likely to involve the use of 100 or more tonnes of organic solvents in any 12-month period, manufacturing any powder for use as a coating material where there is the capacity to produce 200 tonnes or more of such powder in any 12-month period.

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SECTION 6.6 — Timber Activities

• Part A(1) Curing, or chemically treating, as part of a manufacturing process, timber or products wholly or mainly made of wood if any substance in paragraph 7 of Part 1 of this Schedule is used.

• Part B Unless falling within Part A(2) of Section 6.1, manufacturing products wholly or mainly of wood at any works if the activity involves a relevant activity and the throughput of the works in any 12-month period is likely to be more than— 10,000 cubic metres in the case of works at which wood is only sawed, or wood is sawed and subjected to excluded activities, or 1,000 cubic metres in any other case.

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SECTION 6.7 — Activities Involving Rubber

• Part A(2) Manufacturing new tyres (but not remoulds or retreads) if this involves the use in any 12-monthperiod of 50,000 or more tonnes of one or more of the following— natural rubber, synthetic organic elastomers, other substances mixed with them.

• Part B Unless falling within Part A(1) or Part A(2) of any Section, the mixing, milling or blending of— natural rubber, or synthetic organic elastomers, if carbon black is used. Any activity which converts the product of an activity falling within paragraph (a) into a finished product if related to an activity falling within that paragraph.

SECTION 6.8 — The Treatment of Animal and Vegetable Matter and Food Industries

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• Part A(1) Tanning hides and skins at a plant with a treatment capacity of more than 12 tonnes of finished products per day. Slaughtering animals at a plant with a carcass production capacity of more than 50 tonnes per day. Disposing of or recycling animal carcasses or animal waste, other than by rendering or by incineration falling within Section 5.1, at a plant with a treatment capacity exceeding 10 tonnes per day of animal carcasses or animal waste or both in aggregate. Treating and processing materials intended for the production of food products from— animal raw materials (other than milk) at a plant with a finished product production capacity of more than 75 tonnes per day; or vegetable raw materials at a plant with a finished product production capacity of more than 300 tonnes per day (average value on a quarterly basis). Treating and processing milk, the quantity of milk received being more than 200 tonnes per day (average value on an annual basis). Processing, storing or drying by the application of heat the whole or part of any dead animal or any vegetable matter (other than the treatment of effluent so as to permit its discharge into controlled waters or into a sewer unless the treatment involves the drying of any material with a view to its use as animal feedstuff) if the processing, storing or drying— does not fall within any other Section, or Part A(2) of this Section, and is not an excluded activity; and may result in the release into water of any substance in paragraph 7 of Part 1 of this Schedule in a quantity which, in any 12-month period, is greater than the background quantity by more than the amount specified in relation to the substance in that paragraph.

• Part A(2) Disposing of or recycling animal carcasses or animal waste by rendering at plant with a treatment capacity exceeding 10 tonnes per day of animal carcasses or animal waste or both in aggregate.

• Part B Processing, storing or drying by the application of heat the whole or part of any dead animal or any vegetable matter (other than the treatment of effluent so as to permit its discharge into controlled waters or into a sewer unless the treatment involves the drying of any material with a view to its use as animal feedstuff) if the processing, storing or drying— does not fall within another Section, or Part A(1) or Part A(2) of this Section; is not an excluded activity; and may result in the release into the air of— any substance in paragraph 6(3) of Part 1 of this Schedule, or any offensive smell noticeable outside the premises on which the activity is carried on. Breeding maggots in any case where 5 or more kg of animal matter, vegetable matter or both in aggregate, are introduced into the process in any week.

SECTION 6.9 — Intensive Farming

• Part A(1) Rearing poultry or pigs intensively in an installation with more than— 40,000 places for poultry; 2,000 places for production pigs (over 30 kg); or 750 places for sows.

SECTION 7 — SED Activities

• Part B The activities listed in the table below if they are operated above the solvent consumption threshold for the activity. ActivitySolvent consumption threshold in tonnes/year Heatset web offset printing15Publication rotogravure25Other rotogravure, flexography, rotary screen printing, laminating or varnishing units15Rotary screen printing on textile or cardboard30Surface cleaning using substances or preparations which because of their content of volatile organic compounds classified as carcinogens, mutagens or toxic to reproduction under Directive 67/548/EEC on the approximation of laws, regulations and administrative provisions relating to the classification, packaging and labelling of dangerous substances[^f00054] are assigned or need to carry one or more of the risk phrases R45, R46, R49, R60 or R61, or halogenated VOCs which are assigned or need to carry the risk phraseR401Other surface cleaning2Vehicle coating and vehicle refinishing0.5Coil coating25Other coating activities, including metal, plastic, textile (except rotary screen printing on textile), fabric, film and paper coating5Winding wire coating5Coating activity applied to wooden surfaces15Dry cleaning0Wood impregnation25Coating activity applied to leather10Footwear manufacture5Wood and plastic lamination5Adhesive coating5Manufacture of coating preparations, varnishes, inks and adhesives100Rubber conversion15Vegetable oil and animal fat extraction and vegetable oil refining activities10Manufacturing of pharmaceutical products50

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SCHEDULE 2 — Exempt facilities: general

Interpretation: general

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Interpretation: exemption registration authority

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Exempt waste operations

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Exempt water discharge activities

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Exempt groundwater activities

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Procedure for registering an exempt facility

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Register of exempt facilities

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Duty to remove entries from the register

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Exclusion from the register of information affecting national security

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Restrictions on registering exempt waste operations carried on at the same place

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Fee for registration relating to WEEE operations

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Validity of registration of waste operations

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Changes to relevant particulars relating to waste operations

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Record keeping for exempt waste operations

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Periodic inspections of establishments and undertakings

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SCHEDULE 3 — Exempt facilities: descriptions and conditions

PART 1 — Exempt waste operations: descriptions and conditions (specific and general)

CHAPTER 1 — Interpretation of Part 1

Interpretation

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CHAPTER 2 — Use of waste

SECTION 1 — Introductory

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SECTION 2 — Descriptions and specific conditions

Use of waste in construction (U1)

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Use of baled end-of-life tyres in construction (U2)

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Use of waste in the construction of entertainment or educational installations etc (U3)

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Burning of waste as a fuel in a small appliance (U4)

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Use of waste derived biodiesel as fuel (U5)

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Use of sludge for the purposes of re-seeding a waste water treatment plant (U6)

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Use of effluent to clean a highway gravel bed (U7)

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Use of waste for a specified purpose (U8)

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Use of waste to manufacture finished goods (U9)

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Spreading waste on agricultural land to confer benefit (U10)

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Spreading waste on non-agricultural land to confer benefit (U11)

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Use of mulch (U12)

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Spreading of plant matter to confer benefit (U13)

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Incorporation of ash into soil (U14)

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Pig and poultry ash (U15)

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Use of depolluted end-of-life vehicles for vehicle parts (U16)

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CHAPTER 3 — Treatment of waste

SECTION 1 — Introductory

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SECTION 2 — Descriptions and specific conditions

Cleaning, washing, spraying or coating relevant waste (T1)

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Recovery of textiles (T2)

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Treatment of waste metals and metal alloys by heating for the purposes of removing grease etc (T3)

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Preparatory treatments (baling, sorting, shredding etc) (T4)

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Screening and blending of waste (T5)

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Treatment of waste wood and waste plant matter by chipping, shredding, cutting or pulverising (T6)

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Treatment of waste bricks, tiles and concrete by crushing, grinding or reducing in size (T7)

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Mechanical treatment of end-of-life tyres (T8)

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Recovery of scrap metal (T9)

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Sorting mixed waste (T10)

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Repair or refurbishment of WEEE (T11)

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Manual treatment of waste (T12)

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Treatment of waste food (T13)

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Crushing and emptying waste vehicle oil filters (T14)

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Treatment of waste aerosol cans (T15)

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Treatment of waste toner cartridges by sorting, dismantling, cleaning or refilling (T16)

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Crushing waste fluorescent tubes (T17)

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Dewatering using flocculants (T18)

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Physical treatment of waste edible oil and fat to produce biodiesel (T19)

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Treatment of waste at a water treatment works (T20)

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Recovery of waste at a waste water treatment works (T21)

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Treatment of animal by-product waste at a collection centre (T22)

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Aerobic composting and associated prior treatment (T23)

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Anaerobic digestion at premises used for agriculture and burning of resultant biogas (T24)

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Anaerobic digestion at premises not used for agriculture and burning of resultant biogas (T25)

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Treatment of kitchen waste in a wormery (T26)

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Treatment of sheep dip for disposal (T27)

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Sorting and de-naturing of controlled drugs for disposal (T28)

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Treatment of non-hazardous pesticide washings by carbon filtration for disposal (T29)

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Recovery of silver (T30)

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Recovery of monopropylene glycol from aircraft antifreeze fluids (T31)

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Treatment of waste in a biobed or biofilter (T32)

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Recovery of central heating oil by filtration (T33)

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CHAPTER 4 — Disposal of waste

SECTION 1 — Introductory

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SECTION 2 — Descriptions and specific conditions

Deposit of waste from dredging of inland waters (D1)

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Deposit of waste from a railway sanitary convenience (D2)

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Deposit of waste from a portable sanitary convenience (D3)

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Deposit of agricultural waste consisting of plant tissue under a Plant Health notice (D4)

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Depositing samples of waste for the purposes of testing or analysing them (D5)

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Disposal by incineration (D6)

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Burning waste in the open (D7)

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Burning waste at a port under a Plant Health notice (D8)

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CHAPTER 5 — Storage of waste other than at the place of production pending its recovery or reuse

SECTION 1 — Introductory

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SECTION 2 — Descriptions and specific conditions

Storage of waste in secure containers (S1)

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Storage of waste in a secure place (S2)

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Storage of sludge (S3)

3

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