The Environmental Protection (Prescribed Processes and Substances Etc.) (Amendment) (Petrol Vapour Recovery) Regulations 1996

Processes falling within paragraph (a) of Part B of Section 1.4

3.—(1) For the purposes of regulation 3(1) of the principal Regulations, the prescribed date in respect of a process falling within paragraph (a) of Part B of Section 1.4 shall be—

(a) 30th November 1996, where the process is carried on at a terminal which includes a new installation;

(b) where the process is carried on at a terminal which includes a transitional installation but does not include a new installation, whichever is the later of the following—

(i) 31st January 1997;

(ii) where application for authorisation to carry on the process is duly made to the enforcing authority in accordance with section 6 of the Act before 1st February 1997, the determination date for that process;

(c) where the process is carried on at a terminal which does not include a new installation or a transitional installation—

(i) 31st December 1998, if the largest total annual quantity of petrol loaded from the stationary storage tanks at the terminal into road tankers, rail tankers and inland waterway vessels during the three preceding years is greater than 50,000 tonnes/year;

(ii) 31st December 2001, if the largest total annual quantity of petrol loaded from the stationary storage tanks at the terminal into road tankers, rail tankers and inland waterway vessels during the three preceding years is greater than 25,000 tonnes/year but not greater than 50,000 tonnes/year;

(iii) 31st December 2004, in any other case.

(2) Application for authorisation under section 6 of the Act to carry on a process falling within sub-paragraph (1)(c) above shall be made no earlier than 15 months before the date which, by virtue of that sub-paragraph, is the prescribed date.

(3) In this paragraph—

(a) an “existing installation” means a stationary storage tank or a loading installation which was in operation, or for the construction of which planning permission was granted, before 31st December 1995;

(b) a “transitional installation” means a stationary storage tank or a loading installation which—

(i) is not an existing installation; but

(ii) is in operation, or for the construction of which planning permission is granted, before 1st December 1996;

(c) a “new installation” means a stationary storage tank or a loading installation which is not an existing installation or a transitional installation;

(d) expressions which are also used in Part B of Section 1.4 have the same meaning as in that Part of that Section; and

(e) other expressions which are also used in the Directive have the same meaning as in the Directive.