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The Pollution Prevention and Control (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 2017

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Amendment of the Air Quality Standards (Scotland) Regulations 2010

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17.—(1) The Air Quality Standards (Scotland) Regulations 2010(1) are amended as follows.

(2) In regulation 24 (air quality plans)—

(a)after paragraph (7), insert—

“(7A) An air quality plan must assess the need to apply lower emission limit values for individual medium combustion plants than those set out in Directive (EU) 2015/2193 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 25 November 2015 on the limitation of emissions of certain pollutants into the air from medium combustion plants (“the Medium Combustion Plant Directive”) provided that, in the opinion of the Scottish Ministers, applying such emission limit values would effectively contribute to a noticeable improvement of air quality.

(7B) In considering whether to impose lower emission limit values, the Scottish Ministers must take into account the results of the information exchange referred to in Article 6(10) of the Medium Combustion Plant Directive.”;

(b)after paragraph (8) insert—

“(9) In this regulation “emission limit values” and “medium combustion plants” have the meanings given in the Pollution Prevention and Control (Scotland) Regulations 2012.”.

(1)

S.S.I. 2010/204, to which there are amendments not relevant to these Regulations.

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