The Environmental Permitting (England and Wales) Regulations 2010 No. 675

SCHEDULE 1 Activities, installations and mobile plant

PART 2 Activities

CHAPTER 6 Other Activities

SECTION 6.1 Paper, Pulp and Board Manufacturing Activities

• Part A(1)

  (a)

  Producing, in industrial plant, pulp from timber or other fibrous materials.

  (b)

  Producing, in industrial plant, paper and board where the plant has a production capacity of more than 20 tonnes per day.

  (c)

  Any activity associated with making paper pulp or paper, including activities connected with the recycling of paper such as de-inking, if the activity may result in the release into water of any substance in paragraph 7 of Part 1 of this Schedule in a quantity which, in any 12-month period, is greater than the background quantity by more than the amount specified in that paragraph in relation to that substance.

Interpretation of Part A(1)

1.  In Part A(1)(c), “paper pulp” includes pulp made from wood, grass, straw or similar materials and references to the making of paper are to the making of any product using paper pulp.

• Part A(2)

  (a)

  Manufacturing wood particleboard, oriented strand board, wood fibreboard, plywood, cement-bonded particleboard or any other composite wood-based board.