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Paragraph 8 Authorisation conditions: loading and storage equipment at service stationsF1

SEPA must ensure that an authorisation for a petrol vapour recovery activity includes such conditions as it considers appropriate to ensure that—

(a)

loading and storage equipment at service stations is designed and operated so that—

(i)

vapours displaced by the delivery of petrol into storage installations at service stations must be returned through a vapour-tight connection line to the mobile container delivering the petrol,

(ii)

loading operations may not take place unless the arrangements under head (i) are in place and properly functioning,

(b)

service stations meeting any of the descriptions set out in heads (i) through (iii) are equipped with a Stage II petrol vapour recovery system—

(i)

existing service stations where the actual or intended petrol refuelling throughput at the station in any 12-month period is more than 3,000 m3,

(ii)

existing service stations which undergo a major refurbishment where—

(aa)

the actual or intended petrol refuelling throughput in any 12-month period is greater than 500 m3, or

(bb)

its actual or intended petrol refuelling throughput in any 12-month period is greater than 100 m3 and it is situated under permanent living quarters or working areas,

(iii)

any new service stations where the actual or intended petrol refuelling throughput in any 12-month period is greater than 500 m3.

Annotations

Textual amendments

F1

Sch. 28 inserted (1.11.2025) by The Environmental Authorisations (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 2025 (S.S.I. 2025/165), reg. 1(2), sch. 19 (with sch. 23)