# The Environmental Authorisations (Scotland) Regulations 2018, Paragraph 2: Interpretation: specified activity


(1) A “specified activity” means a regulated activity—
(a) first carried on, or carried on at a plant or installation that was substantially refurbished, after 30 October 2014, and
(b) included in sub-paragraph (2) and meeting the condition in sub-paragraph (3), or included in sub-paragraph (4), subject to the exemptions in paragraph 3 of this schedule.
(2) The activities are—
(a) operating a large combustion plant,
(b) waste incineration or waste co-incineration at a waste incineration plant or waste co-incineration plant,
(c) operating a medium combustion plant,
(d) burning any fuel in combustion plants which generate electricity on the same site with an aggregated rated thermal input of 1 MW or more as described in paragraph 1 of Chapter 1 of Part 3 of schedule 26.
(3) The condition is that the activities in sub-paragraph (2) must—
(a) generate electricity and have a rated thermal input exceeding 20 MW, or
(b) where more than one activity in sub-paragraph (2) is operated in the same place, the activities must have a total rated thermal input exceeding 20 MW.
(4) An industrial emissions activity or other emissions activity with a rated thermal input exceeding 20 MW, which—
(a) generates waste heat at a useful temperature level, or
(b) forms part of a new or existing district heating or cooling network.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ssi/2018/219/schedule/25/paragraph/2 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/environmental-authorisations-scotland-regulations-2018/schedule-25/paragraph-2
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