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Guidance, Regulations, Directives, Directions and EU activity

Guidance

• Guidance notes for local authority-regulated industrial activities - A(2) and Part B activities:
  • Process Guidance Notes - for Part B activities
  • Sector Guidance Notes - for Part A(2) activities
  • Air Quality (AQ) Notes - additional guidance notes
• General guidance for local authorities - A(2) and Part B
• Guidance for those operating A(1) activities - regulated by the Environment Agency
• Guidance for the Environmental Permitting Regulations
• CIEH Management Guide Sept 2004 (CIEH website, PDF 718 KB)

 

Regulations and changes to the regulations

The Environmental Permitting Regulationscame into force on 6th April 2008 replacing the previous Pollution Prevention and Control Regulations 2000.

• Amendments to the Pollution Prevention and Control Regulations (SI 2000/1973) to transpose parts of the Public Participation Directive - 23 June 2005 (PDF 9 KB)

The Pollution Prevention and Control Act 1999 is on the OPSI website.

 

Directions

The following directions have been issued by the Secretary of State to local authorities under the Environmental Permitting Regulations

• The Environmental Permitting (Transitional – European Pollutant Release and Transfer Register) (England) Direction 2008 (PDF 100 KB)
• The Environmental Permitting (England and Wales) (Transitional – National Security) Direction 2008 (PDF 100 KB)
• The Environmental Permitting (England and Wales) (Transitional – Exercise of Functions) Direction 2008 (PDF 100 KB)
• The Environmental Permitting (England and Wales) (Transitional - Exercise of Functions at Part B installations) Direction 2008 (PDF 90 KB)

 

EU Directives

European Directives which have been transposed into England and Wales Regulations.

• The revised Large Combustion Plants Directive (LCPD, 2001/80/EC)  on the air quality pages of this site. This Directive applies to combustion plants with a thermal output of greater than 50 MW
• The Solvent Emissions Directive 1999/13/EC on the air quality pages of this site
• Paints Directive 2004/42/CE on the air quality pages of this site
• Waste Incineration Directive (PDF 800 KB)

 

EU activity

Correspondence, communications, consultations and registers generating from the EU which affects, impacts upon or has an interest in PPC.

Under the IPPC Directive, all existing IPPC installations had to be permitted by 30 October 2007. The following table, which has been sent to the European Commission, in summary shows that, at that date there were 3,974 IPPC installations in the UK. Permits remained outstanding in respect of 215 (5.4%) of these. By 11 January 2008, the number outstanding had dropped to 142 and draft permits had been issued in nearly all these cases.

• Table of Permitting Progress (PDF 20 KB)
• UK Government report to the European Commission on implementation of Directive 96/61/EC concerning IPPC (PDF 128 KB)
• Launch of the European Pollutant Release and Transfer Register (EPER) (PDF 17 KB) - February 2004
• New European Register - European Pollutant Release and Transfer Register (on Europa website) - January 2006

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Page last modified: 11 April 2008

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