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Paragraph 2 Interpretation: operating a medium combustion plantF1

(1)

In this schedule, “operating a medium combustion plant” means operating a combustion plant with a rated thermal input equal to or greater than 1 megawatt and less than 50 megawatts but does not include the activities in sub-paragraph (2).

(2)

The excluded activities are the operation of—

(a)

a large combustion plant,

(b)

a waste incineration or waste co-incineration plant,

(c)

combustion plants covered by EU Regulation 2016/1628 on requirements relating to gaseous and particulate pollutant emission limits and type-approval for internal combustion engines for non-road mobile machinery,

(d)

on-farm combustion plants with a total rated thermal input less than or equal to 5 megawatts, that exclusively use unprocessed poultry manure, as referred to in Article 9(a) of EU Regulation No. 1069/2009 of the European Parliament and Council laying down health rules as regards animal by-products and derived products not intended for human consumption and repealing Regulation (EC) No 1774/2002, as a fuel,

(e)

combustion plants in which the gaseous products of combustion are used for the direct heating, drying or any other treatment of objects or materials,

(f)

combustion plants in which the gaseous products of combustion are used for direct gas-fired heating used to heat indoor spaces for the purpose of improving workplace conditions,

(g)

post-combustion plants designed to purify the waste gases from industrial processes by combustion and which are not operated as independent combustion plants,

(h)

any technical apparatus used in the propulsion of a vehicle, ship or aircraft,

(i)

gas turbines and gas and diesel engines, when used on offshore platforms,

(j)

facilities for the regeneration of catalytic cracking catalysts,

(k)

facilities for the conversion of hydrogen sulphide into sulphur,

(l)

reactors used in the chemical industry,

(m)

coke battery furnaces,

(n)

cowpers,

(o)

crematoria,

(p)

combustion plants firing refinery fuels alone or with other fuels for the production of energy within mineral oil and gas refineries,

(q)

recovery boilers within installations for the production of pulp.

(3)

Operating a medium combustion plant does not include research activities, development activities or testing activities relating to medium combustion plants.

Annotations

Textual amendments

F1

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)