{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/environmental-authorisations-scotland-regulations-2018/schedule-23/paragraph-13",
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  "legislation": "ssi/2018/219",
  "legislation_title": "The Environmental Authorisations (Scotland) Regulations 2018",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/environmental-authorisations-scotland-regulations-2018",
  "path": "schedule/23/paragraph/13",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "13",
  "heading": "Compliance: emission limit values",
  "text": "(1) Emission limit values for solvent emissions activities are to be determined in accordance with Table 2—\nTable 2\nActivity\nThreshold (solvent consumption threshold in tonnes/year)\nEmission limit values in waste gases (mg C/Nm3)\nFugitive emission limit values (percentage of solvent input)\nTotal Emission Limit Values\n(1)Emission limit values (1) and (2) refer to mass of compounds in mg/Nm3 and not to total carbon.\n(2)Installations which demonstrate to SEPA that the average organic solvent content of all cleaning material used does not exceed 30% by weight are exempt from application of the emission limit values for this activity.\n(3)Compliance with paragraph 9(2) of this schedule is to be demonstrated based on 15 minute average measurements.\n(4)Coating activities which cannot be carried out under contained conditions (e.g., shipbuilding, aircraft painting) may be exempt from the emission limit values for this activity.\n(5)The emission limit values in paragraph 7(1)(b)(ii) of this schedule do not apply to this activity.\n(6)Does not apply for impregnation with creosote.\n(7)Total emission limit values for installations processing individual batches of seeds and other vegetable matter are to be determined by SEPA on a case-by-case basis applying the best available techniques.\n1. Heatset web offset printing\n1. 15 -25\n2. >25\n1. 100\n2. 20\n1. 30\n2. 30\n2. Publication rotogravure\n75\nNew installations: 10\nExisting: 15\n3(a). Other rotogravure, flexography, rotary screen printing (other than that described in 3(b)), laminating or varnishing units\n1. 15-25\n2. >25\n1. 100\n2. 100\n1. 25\n2. 20\n3(b). Rotary screen printing on textiles or cardboard\n1. >30\n100\n20\n4. Surface cleaning using substances that are hazard statement solvent substances\n1. 1-5\n2. >5\n1. 20\n2. 20\n1. 15\n2. 10\n5. Other surface cleaning\n1. 2-10\n2. >10\n1. 75\n2. 75\n1. 20\n2. 15\n6. Vehicle coating (<15) and vehicle refinishing\n>0.5\n50\n25\n7. Coil coating\n1. Installations using techniques allowing the reuse of recovered solvents: 150\nNew installations: 5\nExisting installations: 10\n2. All other installations: 50\n8. Other coating activities, including metal, plastic, textiles (except rotary screen printing on textiles), fabric, film and paper coating\n1. 5-15\n2. >15\n1. 100 (coating application and drying processes operated under contained conditions)\n1. 25\n2. 20\n2. 50 (drying)\n75 (coating application processes)\nTextile coating installations which use techniques which allow reuse of recovered solvents: 150\n9. Winding wire coating\nInstallations where diameter of wire ≤ 0.1 mm: 10 g/kg\nAll other installations: 5 g/kg\n10. Coating activity applied to wooden surfaces\n1. 15 -25\n2. >25\n1. 100 (coating application and drying processes under contained conditions)\n1. 25\n2. 20\n2. Drying processes: 50\nCoating processes: 75\n11. Dry cleaning\nMass of solvent emitted per kilogram of product cleaned and dried: 20 g/kg\nParagraph 7(2)(b) does not apply to this activity.\n12. Wood impregnation\n100\n45\n11 kg/m3\n13. Coating activity applied to leather\n1. 10-25\n2. > 25\n3. >10 (for leather coating activities in furnishing and particular leather goods used as small consumer goods)\n1. 85 g/m2\n2. 75 g/m2\n3. 150 g/m2\n14. Footwear manufacture\n25 g per pair\n15. Wood and plastic lamination\n30 g/m2\n16. Adhesive coating\n1. 5-15\n2. >15\n1. 50\n2. 50\nFor both: 150 where techniques are used which allow reuse of recovered solvent.\n1. 25\n2. 20\n17. Manufacture of coating mixtures, varnishes, inks and adhesives\n1. 100-1000\n2. >1000\n1. 150\n2. 150\n1. 5\n2. 3\n1. 5% of solvent input\n2. 3% of solvent input\n18. Rubber Conversion\n20\nWhere techniques are used which allow reuse of recovered solvent: 150\n25\n25% of solvent input\n19. Vegetable oil and animal fat extraction and vegetable oil refining activities\n1. Animal fat: 1.5 kg/tonne\n2. Castor: 3 kg/ tonne\n3. Rape seed: 1 kg/tonne\n4. Sunflower seed: 1 kg/tonne\n5. Soya beans (normal crush): 0.8 kg/tonne\n6. Soya beans (white flakes): 1.2 kg/tonne\n7. Other seeds and other vegetable matter: 3 kg/tonne\n8. Fractionation processes excluding de-gumming (the removal of gums from the oils): 1.5 kg/tonne\n9. De-gumming: 4 kg/tonne\n20. Manufacturing of pharmaceutical products\n20\nIf techniques are used which allow reused of recovered solvent: 150\nNew installations: 5\nExisting installations: 15\nNew installations: 5% of solvent input\nExisting installations: 15% of solvent input\n(2) All emission limit values in waste gases are to be calculated at a temperature of 273.15K and a pressure of 101.3kPa.",
  "extent": null,
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    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Sch. 23 inserted (1.11.2025) by The Environmental Authorisations (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 2025 (S.S.I. 2025/165), reg. 1(2), sch. 14 (with sch. 23)"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "(1)Emission limit values (1) and (2) refer to mass of compounds in mg/Nm3 and not to total carbon."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "(2)Installations which demonstrate to SEPA that the average organic solvent content of all cleaning material used does not exceed 30% by weight are exempt from application of the emission limit values for this activity."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "(3)Compliance with paragraph 9(2) of this schedule is to be demonstrated based on 15 minute average measurements."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f4",
      "text": "(4)Coating activities which cannot be carried out under contained conditions (e.g., shipbuilding, aircraft painting) may be exempt from the emission limit values for this activity."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f5",
      "text": "(5)The emission limit values in paragraph 7(1)(b)(ii) of this schedule do not apply to this activity."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f6",
      "text": "(6)Does not apply for impregnation with creosote."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f7",
      "text": "(7)Total emission limit values for installations processing individual batches of seeds and other vegetable matter are to be determined by SEPA on a case-by-case basis applying the best available techniques."
    }
  ],
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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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