The Pollution Prevention and Control (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 2004

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Order)

These Regulations amend the Pollution Prevention and Control (Scotland) Regulations 2000 (S.S.I. 2000/323) (“the principal Regulations”).

Schedule 1 to the principal Regulations lists the various activities, in respect of which a pollution prevention and control permit is required.

Regulation 2(2)(a) amends the preamble to Chapter 4 of Schedule 1 to the principal Regulations, to ensure that small scale chemical production is excluded from the scope of application of the principal Regulations.

Regulation 2(2)(b) (as read with the amendment in regulation 2(3)) amends paragraphs (b) to (f) of Part A of section 4.2 of Schedule 1 of the principal Regulations to ensure that where certain activities are regulated in accordance with any other section of the Schedule, they will not also fall to be regulated under this section.

Regulation 2(2)(c)(i) amends section 6.8(c) of Part A of Schedule 1 to the principal Regulations to ensure that a pollution prevention and control permit under the principal Regulations is only required in respect of the slaughtering of animals in slaughterhouses.

Regulation 2(2)(c)(ii) amends the definition of ensiling provided at Section 6.8 of Schedule 1 to the principal Regulations.

Regulation 2(2)(d) corrects an error in the definitions in Chapter 7 of Part 1 of Schedule 1 to the principal Regulations. This is to ensure that trailers are subject to the correct solvent consumption threshold for vehicle coating activities as set out in the second column of the table in that Chapter, rather than for other types of coating activity, as required by Annexes I and IIA of Council Directive 1999/13/EC on the limitation of emissions of volatile organic compounds due to the use of organic solvents in certain activities and installations (O.J. L 85, 29.3.1999, p.1).