Pollution Prevention and Control (England and Wales) (Amendment) Regulations 2001
| Jurisdiction | UK Non-devolved |
| Citation | SI 2001/503 |
| Year | 2001 |
2001 No. 503
ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION, ENGLAND AND WALES
The Pollution Prevention and Control (England and Wales) (Amendment) Regulations 2001
Made 22th February 2001
Laid before Parliament 8th March 2001
Coming into force 1st April 2001
The Secretary of State, in exercise of the powers conferred on him by section 2 of the Pollution Prevention and Control Act 19991, having, in accordance with subsection (4) of that section, consulted the Environment Agency, such bodies or persons appearing to him to be representative of the interests of local government, industry, agriculture and small businesses respectively as he considers appropriate and such other bodies and persons as he considers appropriate, hereby makes the following Regulations:
Citation, commencement and extent
1.—(1) These Regulations may be cited as the Pollution Prevention and Control (England and Wales) (Amendment) Regulations 2001 and shall come into force on 1st April 2001.
(2) These Regulations extend to England and Wales only.
(3) For the purposes of paragraph (2), “England and Wales” includes the territorial waters adjacent to England and Wales.
Amendment of the Pollution Prevention and Control (England and Wales) Regulations 2000
2.—(1) The Pollution Prevention and Control (England and Wales) Regulations 20002shall be amended as follows.
(2) In Part 1 of Schedule 1—
(a)
(a) in Section 3.1—
(i) for paragraph (a) of Part A(1) substitute—
“(a)
“(a) Producing cement clinker or producing and grinding cement clinker.”;
(ii) for Part A(2) substitute—
“Part A(2)(a) Unless falling with Part A(1) of this Section, grinding cement clinker.(b) Unless falling within Part A(1) of Section 2.1 or 2.2, grinding metallurgical slag in plant with a grinding capacity of more than 250,000 tonnes in any period of 12 months.”;
(b)
(b) in Section 3.5, for Part A(2) substitute—
“Part A(2)(a) Manufacturing cellulose fibre reinforced calcium silicate board using unbleached pulp.”;
(c)
(c) in Section 6.1 for Part A(2) substitute—
“Part A(2)(a) Manufacturing wood particleboard, oriented strand board, wood fibreboard, plywood, cement-bonded particleboard or any other composite wood-based board.”;
(d)
(d) in paragraph (a) of Part B of Section 6.6, for “Manufacturing” substitute “Unless falling within Part A(2) of Section 6.1, manufacturing”;
(e)
(e) for Part A(2) of Section 6.7 substitute—
“Part A(2)(a) Manufacturing new tyres (but not remoulds or retreads) if this involves the use in any period of 12 months of 50,000 tonnes or more of one or more of the following—(i) natural rubber;(ii) synthetic organic elastomers;(iii) other substances mixed with them.”; and
(f)
(f) in paragraph (v) of the definition of “exempt activity” in the Interpretation of Section 6.8 for “Section 4.2” substitute “Section 4.1”.
(3) In the Table in paragraph 2(2) of Part 1 of Schedule 3 add entries to show that the relevant period—
(a)
(a) for an activity falling within Part A(2) of Section 3.1, is 1st April 2002 to 30th June 2002;
(b)
(b) for an activity falling...
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