{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/environmental-authorisations-scotland-regulations-2018/schedule-27/paragraph-10",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/environmental-authorisations-scotland-regulations-2018/schedule-27/paragraph-10.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/27/paragraph/10",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "10",
  "heading": "Emission limit values: exemptions",
  "text": "(1) A medium combustion plant is exempt until 1 January 2030 from the requirements in paragraph 8(1) or (2) to comply with an emission limit value for dust in Tables 1, 2, or 3 where—–\n(a) the plant fires solid biomass as its main fuel,\n(b) the plant is situated in a zone which conforms with the limit values set out in retained EU law implementing Directive 2008/50/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council on ambient air quality and cleaner air for Europe.\n(2) An authorisation for a medium combustion plant which is exempt by sub-paragraph (1) from the requirements in paragraph 8(1) or (2) must contain—\n(a) emission limit values which do not exceed 150 mg/Nm3 for dust,\n(b) conditions necessary to ensure that—\n(i) no significant environmental harm is caused,\n(ii) a high level of protection for the environment as a whole is achieved.\n(3) A new medium combustion plant is exempt from the requirements in paragraph 8(3) where the plant does not operate more than 500 hours per year (calculated as a rolling average over a period of 3 years).\n(4) An authorisation for a plant which—\n(a) is exempt by sub-paragraph (3) from the requirements in paragraph 8(3) of this schedule, and\n(b) is firing solid fuels\nmust contain an emission limit value for dust of 100 mg/Nm3.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Sch. 27 inserted (1.11.2025) by The Environmental Authorisations (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 2025 (S.S.I. 2025/165), reg. 1(2), sch. 18 (with sch. 23)"
    }
  ],
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    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ssi/2018/219/schedule/27/paragraph/10",
    "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."
}