The End-of-Life Vehicles (Storage and Treatment) (Scotland) Regulations 2003

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Regulations)

These Regulations transpose the requirements of Article 6 of Directive 2000/53/EC on end-of-life vehicles (O.J. No. L 269, 21.10.2000, p.34). The remaining provisions of the Directive are transposed in the End of Life Vehicles Regulations 2003, and are applicable to the UK as a whole.

Regulation 3 provides that all existing site licences, being a type of waste management licence granted, in Scotland, by the Scottish Environment Protection Agency under section 36 of the Environmental Protection Act 1990, in terms of which either or both the keeping or treatment of waste motor vehicles is currently authorised, are modified to include the conditions contained in the Schedule. These conditions, and other relevant provisions, are as required by Article 6 of, and Annex I to Directive 2000/53/EC.

Regulation 4 deals with the arrangements whereby recovery operations which are, at present, carried out under the cover of registered exemptions from the requirement to have a site licence, and which by virtue of these Regulations, are now required to be conducted under the authorisation of a site licence, may now apply for site licences.

Regulation 5 requires the Scottish Environment Protection Agency to include the conditions in the Schedule in any site license it grants for the keeping or treatment of waste motor vehicles.

Regulation 6 preserves the exemption from the requirement to have a site licence for those treating only depolluted waste vehicles.

Regulation 7 provides for certain consequential amendments to the Waste Management Licensing Regulations 1994.

Regulation 8 prescribes the fees required to accompany applications made under Regulation 4.