Regulation 2 Interpretation

In these Regulations—

• “aircraft” includes gliders and missiles;

• “coating material” means paint, printing ink, varnish, lacquer, dye, any metal oxide coating, any adhesive coating, any elastomer coating, any metal or plastic coating and any other coating material;

• “data facility” means a room, or rooms sharing the same electricity supply circuit, occupied mainly or exclusively by computer equipment which is enabled to transfer data electronically, and where in respect of the room or rooms—

  1. (a)

     the temperature and humidity are regulated in connection with the operation of the computer equipment,

  2. (b)

     the electricity supply is at least 200kW, and

  3. (c)

     electricity is supplied by a back-up electricity supply when the mains supply is interrupted;

• “eligible process” means a process or activity, or a combination of processes or activities, carried out at the relevant installation, as described in the Schedule to these Regulations;

• “food” includes—

  1. (a)

     drink,

  2. (b)

     articles and substances of no nutritional value which are used for human consumption, and

  3. (c)

     articles and substances used as ingredients in the preparation of food;

• “hazardous waste” means waste which displays any of the characteristics listed in Annex III of the Waste Framework Directive;

• “installation”^f1 means a stationary technical unit;

• “recovery” has the same meaning as in the Waste Framework Directive and related terms are to be construed accordingly;

• “semi-processing” means debarking and sawing an unprocessed log;

• “spirit drink” has the same meaning as in Regulation (EC) 110/2008^f2 of the European Parliament and of the Council on the definition, description, presentation, labelling and the protection of geographical indications of spirit drinks;

• “unprocessed log” means a log from which the branches have been removed, but to which no other processing has been applied;

• “waste” means anything that—

  1. (a)

     is waste within the meaning of Article 3(1) of the Waste Framework Directive, and

  2. (b)

     is not excluded from the scope of that Directive by Article 2(1), (2) or (3) of that Directive;

• “the waste classification technical guidance” means the document titled “Waste Classification: Guidance on the classification and assessment of waste (1st Edition v1.2.GB) Technical Guidance WM3” published by the Environment Agency, Natural Resources Wales and the Scottish Environment Protection Agency on 28 September 2021^f3;

• “waste co-incineration plant” means any installation whose main purpose is the generation of energy or production of material products and which uses waste as a regular or additional fuel or in which waste is thermally treated for the purpose of disposal through the incineration by oxidation of waste as well as other thermal treatment processes, such as pyrolysis, gasification or plasma process, if the substances resulting from the treatment are subsequently incinerated;

• “the Waste Framework Directive” means Directive 2008/98/EC^f4 of the European Parliament and of the Council on waste, as last amended by Directive (EU) 2018/851^f5 and read in accordance with regulation 3;

• “waste incineration plant” means any installation and equipment dedicated to the thermal treatment of waste, with or without recovery of the combustion heat generated, through the incineration by oxidation of waste as well as other thermal treatment processes, such as pyrolysis, gasification or plasma process, if the substances resulting from the treatment are subsequently incinerated.