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England, Wales and Scotland

(a)

Any process (other than for the repainting or respraying of or of parts of aircraft or road or railway vehicles) for the application to a substrate of, or the drying or curing after such application of, printing ink or paint or any other coating material as, or in the course of, a manufacturing process where—

(i)

the process may result in the release into the air of particulate matter or of any volatile organic compound; and

(ii)

the carrying on of the process by the person concerned at the location in question is likely to involve the use in any 12 month period of—

(aa)

20 tonnes or more applied in solid form of any printing ink, paint or other coating material; or

(bb)

20 tonnes or more of any metal coatings which are sprayed on in molten form; or

(cc)

25 tonnes or more of organic solvents in respect of any cold set web offset printing process or any sheet fed offset litho printing process or, in respect of any other process, 5 tonnes or more of organic solvents.

(b)

Any process for the repainting or respraying of or of parts of road vehicles if the process may result in the release into the air of particulate matter or of any volatile organic compound and the carrying on of the process by the person concerned at the location in question is likely to involve the use of F31 tonne2 tonnes or more of organic solvents in any 12 month period.

(c)

Any process for the repainting or respraying of or of parts of aircraft or railway vehicles if the process may result in the release into the air of particulate matter or of any volatile organic compound and the carrying on of the process by the person concerned at the location in question is likely to involve the use in any 12 month period of—

(i)

20 tonnes or more applied in solid form of any paint or other coating material; or

(ii)

20 tonnes or more of any metal coatings which are sprayed on in molten form; or

(iii)

5 tonnes or more of organic solvents.

F4In this Section—

  • “aircraft” includes gliders and missiles;

  • “coating material” means paint, printing ink, varnish, lacquer, dye, any metal oxide coating, any adhesive coating, any elastomer coating, any metal or plastic coating and any other coating material; and

  • F5the amount of organic solvents used in a process shall be calculated as—

    1. (a)

      the total input of organic solvents into the process, including both solvents contained in coating materials and solvents used for cleaning or other purposes; less

    2. (b)

      any organic solvents that are removed from the process for re-use or for recovery for re-use.

Annotations

Textual amendments

F1

Regulations revoked (E.W.) (6.4.2008) by The Environmental Permitting (England and Wales) Regulations 2007 (S.I. 2007/3538), reg. 1(1)(b), Sch. 22 (with regs. 69-72); and lapsed (S.) by virtue of repeal of power conferring provision 1990 c. 43, s. 2 (S.) (1.4.2015) by Pollution Prevention and Control Act 1999 (c. 24), s. 7(3), Sch. 3 (with s. 7(7)); S.S.I. 2015/74, art. 2(2)(b)

F2

Words in Sch. 1 s. 6.5 substituted (1.12.1994) by The Environmental Protection (Prescribed Processes and Substances Etc.) (Amendment) Regulations 1994 (S.I. 1994/1271), reg. 1, Sch. 3 para. 41 (with Sch. 6)

F3

Words in Sch. 1 s. 6.5 substituted (S.) (16.11.2005) by The Pollution Prevention and Control (Public Participation etc.) (Scotland) Regulations 2005 (S.S.I. 2005/510), regs. 1, 11

F4

Words in Sch. 1 s. 6.5 substituted (1.12.1994) by The Environmental Protection (Prescribed Processes and Substances Etc.) (Amendment) Regulations 1994 (S.I. 1994/1271), reg. 1, Sch. 3 para. 42 (with Sch. 6)

F5

Words in Sch. 1 s. 6.5 substituted (1.6.1994) by The Environmental Protection (Prescribed Processes and Substances Etc.) (Amendment) Regulations 1994 (S.I. 1994/1271), reg. 1, Sch. 1 para. 10 (with Sch. 6)