LegalizeThe Pollution Prevention and Control (Scotland) Regulations 2012
Made: 20th December 2012
Coming into force: 7th January 2013
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PART I — GENERAL
Citation, commencement and extent
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Interpretation: general
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Interpretation: enactments etc.
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Interpretation: best available techniques, etc.
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SEPA: duties relating to best available techniques
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SEPA: application forms
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SEPA: information relating to right of appeal
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The Scottish Minsters and SEPA: service of notices
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Electronic communications
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PART II — COMPETENT AUTHORITY
SEPA: designation as competent authority
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PART III — GRANTING OF PERMITS
CHAPTER 1 — General
Permits: requirement for a permit
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Permits: interpretation
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Permits: application for a permit
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Permits: authorised operations
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Permits: powers to include conditions
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Permits: consolidation
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Permits: greenhouse gas emissions
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Permits: fit and proper person
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Permits: transfer and cessation
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CHAPTER 2 — Schedule 1 activities
Schedule 1 activities
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Schedule 1: general principles
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Schedule 1 conditions : best available techniques
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Schedule 1 conditions: general provisions
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Schedule 1 conditions: off-site conditions
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Schedule 1 conditions: emission limit values and environmental quality standards
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Schedule 1 conditions: large combustion plants
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Schedule 1 conditions: titanium dioxide
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Schedule 1 conditions: mixing separately collected waste
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Schedule 1 conditions: incineration and co-incineration of waste
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Schedule 1 conditions: incineration of batteries
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Schedule 1 conditions: waste oils
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Schedule 1 conditions: volatile organic compounds
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CHAPTER 3 — Schedule 2 activities
Schedule 2 activities
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Solvents: conditions
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Solvents installations: abatement equipment
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PART IV — STANDARD RULES
Standard rules
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Standard rules: conditions
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Standard rules: consultation
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Standard rules: rules by the Scottish Ministers
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Standard rules: publication
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Standard rules: revision
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Standard rules: revocation
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Part IV: interpretation
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PART V — REVIEW, VARIATION AND CESSATION OF PERMITS
Permits: review of conditions
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Permits: proposed change in operation
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Permits: variation
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Permits: transfer
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Permits: surrender of a Part A permit
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Permits: notification of surrender of an installation or mobile plant permit
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Permits: revocation of permits
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PART VI — COMPLIANCE
SEPA: duty to ensure compliance
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Operators: duty to report breach of permit
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SEPA: environmental inspection plan
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SEPA: environmental inspection of Part A installations
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SEPA: enforcement notices
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SEPA: suspension notices
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SEPA: power to prevent or remedy pollution
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PART VII — APPEALS
Appeals to the Scottish Ministers and to the sheriff
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Interest for the purposes of the Industrial Emissions Directive
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PART VIII — THE SCOTTISH MINISTERS
Scottish Ministers: directions to SEPA
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Scottish Ministers: guidance to SEPA
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Scottish Ministers: emission plans
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PART IX — INFORMATION AND PUBLICITY
Scottish Ministers and SEPA: powers in respect of information
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SEPA: public register
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Register: exclusion of information affecting national security
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Register: exclusion of confidential information
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PART X — PROVISION AS TO OFFENCES
Offences
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Courts: enforcement
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Courts: admissibility of evidence
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Courts: power to order cause of offence to be remedied
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PART XI — CROWN APPLICATION, ETC
Application to the Crown
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Transitional provisions
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Consequential amendments
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Revocations
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SCHEDULE 1 — ACTIVITIES AND INSTALLATIONS AND MOBILE PLANT
PART 1 — ACTIVITIES
CHAPTER 1 — ENERGY INDUSTRIES
SECTION 1.1 — Combustion
Burning any fuel in a combustion appliance with a rated thermal input of 50 megawatts or more.
Interpretation of Part A
For the purposes of Part A, where two or more appliances with an aggregate rated thermal input of 50 megawatts or more are operated on the same site by the same operator those appliances are be treated as a single appliance with a rated thermal input of 50 megawatts or more.
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Interpretation of Section 1.1
For the purposes of section 1.1—
- “rated thermal input” is the rate at which fuel can be burned at the maximum continuous rating of the appliance multiplied by the net calorific value of the fuel and expressed as megawatts thermal.
SECTION 1.2 — Gasification, liquefaction and refining activities
Refining gas including natural gas or its products,
Production of coke,
Pyrolysis, carbonisation, distillation, gasification, liquefaction, partial oxidisation or other heat treatment of coal (other than drying of coal), lignite, oil, or other carbonaceous material or mixtures, otherwise than with a view to making charcoal,
Gasification or liquefaction of fuels other than as described in paragraph (c) in installations with a total rated thermal input of 20megawatts or more,
The refining of mineral oils, or the loading, unloading or other handling of, the storage of, or other physical, chemical or thermal treatment of— crude oil, or stabilised crude petroleum.
Purifying or refining any of the products of an activity mentioned in paragraph (a) or its conversion into a different product.
Nothing in paragraph (c) or (f) refers to the use of any substance as a fuel or its incineration or pyrolysis as a waste or to any activity for the treatment of sewage sludge.
In paragraph (c), the heat treatment of oil does not include heat treatment of waste oil or waste emulsions containing oil in order to recover the oil from aqueous emulsions.
Interpretation of Part A
In Part A—
- “carbonaceous material” includes such materials as charcoal, coke, peat, rubber and wood, and
- “rated thermal input” has the same meaning as in Section 1.1.
Blending odorant for use with natural gas or liquefied petroleum gas,
The following activities:— the storage of petrol in stationary storage tanks at a terminal, or the loading or unloading of petrol into or from a road tanker, a rail tanker or an inland waterway vessel at a terminal, 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 equal to or greater than 500m3.
Motor vehicle refuelling activities at an existing service station if the petrol refuelling throughput at the station in any 12 month period is more than 3000m3,
Motor vehicle refuelling activities at a new service station if the petrol refuelling throughput at the station in any 12 month period is, or is intended to be, 500m3 or more,
Motor vehicle refuelling activities at a new service station if the petrol refuelling throughput at the station in any 12 month period is, or is intended to be, 100m3 or more and the service station is under permanent living quarters or working areas.
Interpretation of Part B
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CHAPTER 2 — PRODUCTION AND PROCESSING OF METALS
SECTION 2.1 — Ferrous metals
Roasting or sintering metal ore, including sulphide ore, or any mixture of iron ore with or without other materials,
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