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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/environmental-authorisations-scotland-amendment-regulations-2026/note",
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  "legislation": "ssi/2026/55",
  "legislation_title": "The Environmental Authorisations (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 2026",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/environmental-authorisations-scotland-amendment-regulations-2026",
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  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "(This note is not part of the Regulations)\nThese Regulations amend the Environmental Authorisations (Scotland) Regulation 2018 (“the 2018 Regulations”) and the Environmental Authorisations (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 2025 (“the 2025 Regulations”), and additionally amend three other instruments as a consequence of provision made in the 2025 Regulations.\nPart 2 of these regulations includes amendment to the 2018 Regulations to expand water activities regulated by SEPA under the 2018 Regulations to include certain water activities carried on in the course of operation of a fish farm in the Scottish marine area outside of the water environment.\nPart 2 of these regulations also makes a number of technical amendments to the 2018 Regulations to correct minor errors and ensure the better functioning of the 2018 Regulations. The amendment made by regulation 11 ensures that the required authorisation conditions in paragraph 7 (metal contamination) of schedule 5 (transitional and savings provision) of the 2018 Regulations continue to have effect following the revocation of the Pollution Prevention and Control (Scotland) Regulations 2012 by the 2025 Regulations.\nPart 3 makes amendments to the transitional arrangements in the 2025 Regulations. Regulation 12(a) corrects a minor error whilst regulation 12(b) ensures that the previous transitional provision in relation to the general binding rule for the storage and application of fertiliser provided for by the Water Environment (Controlled Activities) (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 2021 will have effect under the 2025 Regulations until 1 January 2027.\nPart 4 provides for modifications consequential to the amendment of the 2018 Regulations by the 2025 Regulations so as to correct errors made by the 2025 Regulations in consequentially amending the Special Waste Regulations 1996 and the Packaging (Essential Requirements) Regulations 2015, and also to update the Environmental Protection (Disposal of Polychlorinated Biphenyls and other Dangerous Substances (Scotland) Regulations 2000 to remove references in that instrument to the Waste Management Licensing (Scotland) Regulations 2011 which were revoked by the 2025 Regulations.",
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  "version": "current",
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  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
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