Paragraph 36

(1)

Subject to the exceptions in sub-paragraph (2), at an installation where—

(a)

any process (other than for re-painting or re-spraying of or of parts of aircraft or road or railway vehicles) for applying to a substrate, or drying or curing after such application, printing ink or paint or any other coating material as, or in the course of, a manufacturing activity, and

(b)

the process may result in the release into the air of particulate matter of any volatile organic compound and is likely to involve the use of—

(i)

the application in solid form of printing ink, paint or other coating material,

(ii)

the spraying of metal coating in molten form,

(iii)

the use of organic solvents in respect of any cold set web offset printing activity or any sheet fed offset litho printing activity, or

(iv)

the use of organic solvents in respect of any activity not mentioned in sub-paragraph (iii),

the eligible process is any such process.

(2)

But paragraph (1) shall not apply in relation to any installation where one of the processes or activities listed in the below provisions is carried out—

(a)

Part A(1) or Part A(2) of Section 6.4 (coating activities, printing and textile treatments) of Part 2 of Schedule 1 to the Environmental Permitting (England and Wales) Regulations 2016, or

(b)

Part A(2)(c) of Section 2.1 (ferrous metals) of Part 2 of Schedule 1 to those Regulations.