# The Environmental Authorisations (Scotland) Regulations 2018, Paragraph 3: Interpretation In this schedule— “API Recommended Practice” means API Recommended Practice 1004, Seventh Edition (November 1988), Bottom loading and vapour recovery for MC-306 tank motor vehicles, “existing service station” means a service station— (a)which was put into operation, or (b)for which planning permission under the Town and Country Planning (Scotland) Act 1997 was granted, before 31 December 2011, “existing terminal” means a terminal— (a)which was put into operation, or (b)for which planning permission was granted before 31 December 1995, “gantry” means any structure at a terminal at which petrol can be loaded on to a single road tanker at any one time, “inland waterway vessel” means a vessel intended solely or mainly for navigation on inland waterways but not including passenger vessels, ferries, floating equipment and installations, pleasure craft, service craft and fire-service vessels, “intermediate storage of vapours” refers to the intermediate storage of vapours in a fixed roof tank at a terminal for later transfer to and recovery at another terminal, but does not include the transfer of vapours from one storage installation to another at a terminal, “loading installation” means any facility at a terminal at which petrol can be loaded on mobile containers and loading installations for road tankers comprise one or more gantries, “new service station” means a service station which is put into operation on or after 1 January 2012, and— (a)includes an existing service station where a major refurbishment is completed on or after that date (and for that purpose a major refurbishment means a significant alteration or renewal of the station infrastructure, in particular the tanks and pipes), (b)excludes any other existing service station, “new terminal” means a terminal put into operation after 1 January 1996 and excludes an existing terminal, “petrol” means any petroleum derivative, with or without additives, having a Reid vapour pressure of 27.6kPa or more which is intended for use as a fuel for motor vehicles, other than liquefied petroleum gas, “petrol vapour” means any gaseous compound which evaporates from petrol, “petrol vapour capture efficiency” means the amount of petrol vapour captured by the Stage II petrol vapour recovery system compared to the amount of petrol vapour that would otherwise be emitted to the atmosphere in the absence of such a system and expressed as a percentage, “service station” means any premises where petrol is dispensed to motor vehicle fuel tanks from stationary storage tanks, other than premises used in connection with the construction and delivery of new vehicles only, “Stage II petrol vapour recovery system” means equipment aimed at recovering the petrol vapour displaced from the fuel tank of a motor vehicle during refuelling at a service station and which transfers that petrol vapour to a storage tank at the service station or back to the petrol dispenser for resale, “Stage I throughput” means the largest total annual quantity of petrol loaded from a storage installation at a terminal or from a service station into mobile containers during the three preceding years, “Stage II throughput” means the total annual quantity of petrol unloaded from mobile containers into a service station, “terminal” means any premises which are used for the storage and loading of petrol into road tankers, rail tankers or inland waterway vessels, “vapour/petrol ratio” means the ratio between the volume at atmospheric pressure of petrol vapour passing through the Stage II petrol vapour recovery system and the volume of petrol dispensed, “vapour recovery unit” means equipment for the recovery of petrol from vapours including any buffer reservoir systems at a terminal, “vapours” means any gaseous compound which evaporates from petrol, “vessel” means an inland waterway vessel. --- Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ssi/2018/219/schedule/28/paragraph/3 (the official version) Page: https://openlegislation.uk/environmental-authorisations-scotland-regulations-2018/schedule-28/paragraph-3 Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives.