The Environmental Permitting (England and Wales) (Amendment) (No. 2) Regulations 2010
| Jurisdiction | UK Non-devolved |
| Citation | SI 2010/2172 |
| Year | 2010 |
2010 No. 2172
Environmental Protection, England And Wales
The Environmental Permitting (England and Wales) (Amendment) (No. 2) Regulations 2010
Made 31th August 2010
Laid before Parliament 6th September 2010
Coming into force 1st October 2010
These Regulations are made in exercise of the powers conferred by sections 2 and 7(9) of, and Schedule 1 to, the Pollution Prevention and Control Act 19991. The Secretary of State, in relation to England, and the Welsh Ministers, in relation to Wales, have in accordance with section 2(4) of that Act consulted2—
(a) the Environment Agency;
(b) such bodies or persons appearing to them to be representative of the interests of local government, industry, agriculture and small businesses respectively as they consider appropriate; and
(c) such other bodies or persons as they consider appropriate.
The Secretary of State in relation to England, and the Welsh Ministers in relation to Wales, make the following Regulations.
Citation and commencement
1.—(1) These Regulations—
(a)
(a) may be cited as the Environmental Permitting (England and Wales) (Amendment) (No. 2) Regulations 2010; and
(b)
(b) come into force on 1st October 2010.
Amendment of Part 2 of Schedule 1
2.—(1) Part 2 of Schedule 1 (activities) to the Environmental Permitting (England and Wales) Regulations 20103is amended as follows.
(2) In Section 2.2 (non-ferrous metals) in Part A(2), for paragraph (a), substitute—
“(a)
“(a) Melting, including making alloys, of non-ferrous metals, including recovered products (such as refining or foundry casting) where the plant has a melting capacity of more than 4 tonnes per day for lead or cadmium or 20 tonnes per day for all other metals, and
(i) no furnace (other than a vacuum furnace), bath or other holding vessel used in the plant for the melting has a design holding capacity of 5 or more tonnes; or
(ii) the plant uses a vacuum furnace of any design holding capacity.”.
(3) In Section 6.5 (manufacture of dyestuffs, printing ink and coating materials), in Part B(a)(ii), after “coating material” insert—
“where the process uses lead chromate or triglycidyl isocyanurate and”.
(4) In Section 6.8 (treatment of animal and vegetable matter and food industries), in paragraph 1—
(a)
(a) in the definition of “excluded activity”, at the end of paragraph (n) add—
“,
(o)
(o) the drying of green crops”;
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