Pollution Prevention and Control (PPC)
Local authorities
Process guidance notes (PG notes)
Part B activities
These guidance notes are available as printed copies from Defra Publications.
All notes below are Adobe Acrobat Portable Document Format 
files.
Animal and Vegetable Processing sectors
Combustion and Incineration
- PG 1/3 (95) - Boilers and Furnaces, 20‑50 MW Net Rated Thermal Input (non-consolidated unofficial version with additional guidance AQ23 (04))
- PG 1/4 (95) - Gas Turbines, 20-50 MW Net Thermal Input (non consolidated unofficial version with additional guidance AQ24 (04))
- PG1/1 (04) - Waste Oil and Recovered Oil Burners less than 0.4MW (332 KB)
- PG1/02 (05) - Waste Oil or Recovered Oil Burners, 0.4‑3 MW Net Rated Thermal Input
- PG1/05 (95) - Compression Ignition Engines, 20‑50 MW Net Rated Thermal Input (unofficial version)
- PG1/12 (04) - Combustion of Fuel Manufactured from of comprised from Solid Waste in Appliances (454 KB)
- PG5/2 (04) - Crematoria (549 KB)
- PG5/3 (04) - Animal Carcase Incineration (431 KB)
Minerals sector
- PG 3/01 (04) - Blending, Packing, Loading, Unloading and Use of Bulk Cement (516 KB)
- PG 3/02 (04) - Manufacture of Heavy Clay Goods and Refractory Goods (515 KB)
- PG 3/04 (04) - Lead Glass, Glass Frit and Enamel Frit Manufacturing Processes (428 KB)
- PG 3/05 (04) - Coal, Coke, Coal Product and Petroleum Coke (500 KB)
- PG 3/06 (04) - Polishing or Etching Glass or Glass Products using Hydrofluoric Acid (377 KB)
- PG 3/07 (04) - Exfoliation of Vermiculite and Expansion of Perlite (465 KB)
- PG 3/08 (04) - Quarry Processes (467 KB)
- PG 3/12 (04) - Plaster Processes (532 KB)
- PG 3/13 (95) – Asbestos Processes (non consolidated with additional guidance AQ15(04))
- PG 3/14 (04) - Lime Processes (488 KB)
- PG 3/15a (04) - Roadstone Coating Processes (596 KB)
- PG 3/15b (04) - Mineral Drying and Cooling (596 KB)
- PG 3/16 (04) - Mobile Crushing and Screening (430 KB)
- PG 3/17 (04) - China and Ball Clay Processes including the Spray Drying of Ceramics (665 KB)
- PG 6/02 (04) - Manufacture of Timber and Wood-Based Products (396 KB)
- PG 6/29 (04) - Di-isocyanate Proceses (397 KB)
Metals sector
- PG2/01 (04) - Furnaces for the Extraction of Non-Ferrous Metal from Scrap (420 KB)
- PG2/02 (04) - Hot Dip Galvanizing Processes (449 KB)
- PG2/03 (04) - Electrical, Crucible and Reverberatory Furnaces (448 KB)
- PG2/04 (04) - Iron, Steel and Non-Ferrous Metal Foundry Processes (641 KB)
- PG2/05 (04) - Hot and Cold Blast Cupolas, and Rotary Furnaces (522 KB)
- PG2/06a (04) - Processes Melting and Producing Aluminium and its Alloys (429 KB)
- PG2/06b (04) - Processes Melting and Producing Magnesium and its Alloys (412 KB)
- PG2/07 (04) - Zinc and Zinc Alloy Processes (414 KB)
- PG2/08 (04) - Copper and Copper Alloy Processes (522 KB)
- PG2/09 (04) - Metal Decontamination Processes (501 KB)
- PG4/01 (04) - Surface Treatment of Metal Processes (431 KB)
- PG6/35 (96) - Metal and other Thermal Spraying Processes (unofficial version)
Organic chemicals sector
Petroleum, gas odorising and powder coating sector
- 1/13 (04) - Storage, Unloading and Loading Petrol at Terminals (716 KB)
- 1/14 (06) - Unloading of Petrol into Storage at Petrol Stations (303 KB)
- 1/15 (04) - Odorising Natural Gas and Liquified Petroleum Gas (309 KB)
- 6/9 (04) - Manufacture of Coating Powder (379 KB)
- 6/31 (04) - Powder Coating including Sherardizing and Vitreous Enamelling Dry (412 KB)
- 6/42 (04) - Bitumen and Tar Processes (470 KB)
Solvents sector
- AQ6 04 - Signposting Note for solvents notes (41 KB)
- 6/03 (04) - Chemical treatment of timber and wood-based products (962 KB)
- 6/07 (04) - Printing and coating of metal packaging (1.04 MB)
- 6/08 (04) - Textile and fabric coating and finishing (1.02 MB)
- 6/13 (04) - Coil coating (1.03 MB)
- 6/14 (04) - Film coating (1.05 MB)
- 6/15 (04) - Coating in drum manufacturing and reconditioning (1.03 MB)
- 6/16 (04) - Printing (1.16 MB)
- 6/17 (04) - Printing of flexible packaging (1.08 MB)
- 6/18 (04) - Paper Coating (1.03 MB)
- 6/20 (04) - Paint application in vehicle manufacturing (997 KB)
- 6/22 (04) - Leather finishing (995 KB)
- 6/23 (04) - Coating of metal and plastic (1.08 MB)
- 6/25 (04) - Vegetable oil extraction and fat and oil refining (973 KB)
- 6/28 (04) - Rubber (1.07 MB)
- 6/32 (04) - Adhesive coating including footwear manufacturing (1.02 MB)
- 6/33 (04) - Wood coating (1.2 MB)
- 6/34a (06) - Original Coating of Road Vehicles and Trailers (397 KB) - revised October 2006
- 6/34b (06) - Respraying of Road Vehicles (519 KB) - revised October 2006
- AQ note amending PG6/35 (96) on Metal and Other Thermal Spraying Processes (77 KB)
- 6/40 (04) - Coating and recoating of aircraft and aircraft components (1.06 MB)
- 6/41 (04) - Coating and recoating of rail vehicles (1.02 MB)
- 6/43 (04) - Formulation and finishing of pharmaceutical products (1.0 MB)
- 6/44 (04) - Manufacture of coating materials (1.02 MB)
- 6/45 (04) - Surface cleaning (923 KB)
- 6/46 (04) - Dry cleaning (667 KB)
Background
The Process Guidance (PG) notes are issued by the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs.
From April 2008 they will be issued under regulation 64 of the Environmental Permitting Regulations. In accordance with paragraph 12.4 of the general guidance manual on policy and procedures for A2 and B installations, any previously published PG notes shall be taken to have been issued under regulation 64.
The PG notes form statutory guidance on what constitute the Best Available Techniques (BAT) for LAPPC installations (also known as Part B installations) for each of the installations regulated and local authorities must have regard to them.
All PG notes are subject to formal consultation, undertaken by Defra and WAG, which allows relevant stakeholders to comment on their content before they are issued.
Also see the general guidance manual on policy and procedures for local authority regulated PPC installations.
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Page last modified:
7 April 2008
