{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/environmental-authorisations-scotland-regulations-2018/schedule-18/paragraph-4",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/environmental-authorisations-scotland-regulations-2018/schedule-18/paragraph-4.json",
  "legislation": "ssi/2018/219",
  "legislation_title": "The Environmental Authorisations (Scotland) Regulations 2018",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/environmental-authorisations-scotland-regulations-2018",
  "path": "schedule/18/paragraph/4",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "4",
  "heading": "Interpretation: general",
  "text": "In this schedule—\n“agriculture” means the growing of all types of commercial food crops, including for stock-rearing purposes and related expressions are to be construed accordingly,\n“conventionally treated sewage sludge” means sewage sludge which—\n(a)has been treated in a process which has been demonstrated to be capable of achieving at least a 99% reduction (a 2 log10 reduction) in pathogens, and\n(b)contains no more than 100, 000 Escherichia coli per gram dry solids,\n“enhanced treated sewage sludge” means sewage sludge which—\n(a)has been treated—\n(i)in a process which has been demonstrated to have achieved at least a 99.9999% reduction (a 6 log10 reduction) in pathogens, or\n(ii)where before treatment the sewage sludge had a mean concentration of less than 108Escherichia coli per gram dry solids, in a process which has achieved the requirements in sub-paragraphs (b) and (c),\n(b)contains no more than 1000 Escherichia coli per gram dry solids, and\n(c)is free from Salmonella,\n“plant” means living plants and the following living parts of plants—\n(a)seeds,\n(b)fruits,\n(c)vegetables,\n(d)tubers, corns, bulbs, rhizomes, roots, rootstocks, stolons,\n(e)shoots, stems, runners,\n(f)flowers,\n(g)trees,\n(h)leaves, foliage,\n(i)live pollen and spores,\n(j)buds, budwood, cutting, scions, grafts,\n“septic tank sludge” means residual sludge from septic tanks and other similar installations for the treatment of sewage,\n“sewage sludge” means residual sludge from sewage treatment works,\n“treated sewage sludge” means sewage sludge which has undergone biological, chemical or heat treatment, or any other appropriate process so as significantly to reduce its fermentability and the health hazards resulting from its use.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Sch. 18 inserted (1.6.2025) by The Environmental Authorisations (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 2025 (S.S.I. 2025/165), reg. 1(4)(d)(ii), sch. 9 (with reg. 1(5), sch. 23)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ssi/2018/219/schedule/18/paragraph/4",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T21:11:56.403037+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}