# The Environmental Authorisations (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 2025, Paragraph 19: Existing waste exemptions and existing complex waste exemptions: applications for authorisations under the 2018 Regulations


(1) Where an application has been made for a permit or registration under the 2018 Regulations—
(a) in relation to an existing waste exemption, before the waste exemptions sunset date,
(b) in relation to an existing complex waste exemption, before the earlier of—
(i) the waste exemptions sunset date, or
(ii) the expiry of the existing complex waste registration,
the activity is deemed to be authorised (“a deemed authorisation”) until the application is concluded.
(2) In accordance with sub-paragraph (1)—
(a) any condition or limitation to which an existing waste exemption or existing complex waste exemption was subject to under the 2011 Regulations has effect as if it were a condition attached to the deemed authorisation,
(b) the applicant is to be treated as the authorised person in respect of the deemed authorisation.
(3) Where, in relation to an existing waste exemption or existing complex exemption, an activity is deemed authorised under sub-paragraph (1), the existing waste exemption or complex waste exemption (as the case may be)—
(a) will cease to have effect, and
(b) will be deemed to have been removed from the register maintained under regulation 20 of the 2011 regulations,
from the date on which the application for registration or permit is concluded.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/sdsi/2025/9780111062319/schedule/23/paragraph/19 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/draft-environmental-authorisations-scotland-amendment-regulations-2025/schedule-23/paragraph-19
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