LegalizeThe 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
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