Article 4 Relevant contaminated land remediation: specified activity

(1)

For the purposes of Condition C in section 1146 of the Act (“relevant contaminated land remediation”), a specified activity is the removal of relevant material from the land in question to a licensed landfill site.

(2)

For the purposes of this article—

(a)

“relevant material” means material which contains or may contain Japanese Knotweed;

(b)

“licensed landfill site” means a site in respect of which a permit has been granted under the following—

(i)

the Environmental Permitting (England and Wales) Regulations 2007^f1,

(ii)

the Pollution Prevention and Control (Scotland) Regulations 2000^f2,

(iii)

the Pollution Prevention and Control (Northern Ireland) Regulations 2003^f3, or

(iv)

Council Directive 1999/31/EC of 26th April 1999 on the landfill of waste^f4.

Annotations

Footnotes

f1: S.I. 2007/3538.
f2: S.S.I. 2000/323.
f3: S.R. 2003/46.
f4: OJ L 182, 16.7.1999 pp.1-19.