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Sector guidance notes (SG notes)

for Part A(2) activities

These guidance notes are available as printed copies from Defra Publications. All notes below are Adobe Acrobat Portable Document Format files.

  • IPPC SG1 (600 KB) - Secretary of State's Guidance for the Particleboard, Oriented Strand Board and Dry Process Fibreboard Sector (September 2006)
  • IPPC SG2 (300 KB) - Secretary of State's Guidance for the A2 Glassmaking Sector (revised 31 October 2006)
  • IPPC SG3 (1 MB) - Secretary of State's Guidance for the A(2) Ferrous Foundries Sector (January 2006)
  • IPPC SG4 (1 MB) - Secretary of State's Guidance for A(2) Activities in the Non-ferrous Metals Sector (January 2006)
  • IPPC SG5 (500 KB) - Secretary of State's Guidance for the A2 Galvanising Sector (September 2006)
  • IPPC SG6 (1 MB) - Secretary of State's Guidance for the A2 Surface Treatment Using Organic Solvents Sector (March 2008)
  • IPPC SG7 (700 KB) - Secretary of State's Guidance for the A2 Ceramics Sector including Heavy Clay, Refractories, Calcining Clay and Whiteware (September 2007)
  • IPPC SG8 (700 KB) - Secretary of State's Guidance for the A2 Rendering Sector (October 2004)
  • IPPC SG9 (1.2 MB) - Secretary of State's Guidance for A2 Roadstone Coating, Mineral and Other Processes that Burn Recovered Fuel Oil (April 2005)
  • IPPC SG10 (300 KB) - Secretary of State's Guidance for the A2 Animal carcass incineration with capacity of less than 1 tonne per hour

Background

The Sector guidance (SG) notes below 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 SG notes shall be taken to have been issued under regulation 64.

The SG notes form statutory guidance on what constitute the Best Available Techniques for LA-IPPC installations (also known as A2 installations) for each of the main installations regulated and local authorities must have regard to them.

All SG notes are subject to a formal consultation exercise, 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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