The Environmental Protection (Prescribed Processes and Substances Etc.) (Amendment) Regulations 1994

8.  In Part A of Section 2.1 (iron and steel)—

(a) for paragraph (e) there shall be substituted the following paragraph—

“(e) Pelletising, calcining, roasting or sintering iron ore or any mixture of iron ore and other materials.”;

(b) in each of paragraphs (f), (g), (h) and (i) for the word “ferro-alloy” there shall be substituted the words “ferrous alloy”;

(c) paragraph (k) shall be omitted;

(d) after paragraph (l), there shall be inserted the following paragraph—

“(m) Any process for rolling iron, steel or any ferrous alloy carried on in relation to any process described in paragraph (f) or (g), and any process carried on in conjunction with such rolling involving the scarfing or cutting with oxygen of iron, steel or any ferrous alloy.”;

(e) at the end of Part A, there shall be added the following—

• “A process does not fall within paragraph (a), (b), (c) or (d) of this Part of this Section unless—

  (i)

  it is carried on as part of or is related to a process falling within a paragraph of this Part of this Section other than paragraph (a), (b), (c) or (d); or

  (ii)

  it consists of, forms part of or is related to a process which is likely to involve the unloading in any 12 month period of more than 500,000 tonnes of iron ore or burnt pyrites or, in aggregate, both.”.