The End-of-Life Vehicles Regulations 2003

Amendments to the Waste Management Licensing Regulations 1994

48.—(1) The Waste Management Licensing Regulations 1994 are amended, in so far as they extend to England and Wales, as described in paragraphs (2) and (3).

(2) In regulation 18 (registration in connection with exempt activities), in paragraph (4A), immediately following sub-paragraph (c), there shall be inserted the following sub-paragraph—

“(cc) in the case of waste motor vehicles, it has first verified, further to its inspection of each such place—

(i) the type of waste to be treated;

(ii) the quantities of waste to be treated;

(iii) the general technical requirements to be complied with; and

(iv) the safety precautions that are to be taken,

in order to achieve the objectives referred to in Article 4 of the Directive, and a registration further to such verification shall continue subject to the requirement that verification upon inspection be made annually in respect of it.”.

(3) In Schedule 3 (activities exempt from waste management licensing) thereto—

(a) after sub-paragraph 41(1A) there shall be inserted the following sub-paragraph—

“(1B) Subject to sub-paragraph (1A), sub-paragraph (1) shall only apply to waste motor vehicles where such temporary storage conforms with the obligations and the minimum technical requirements described, respectively, in paragraph 1 to each of Parts 1 and 2 of Schedule 5 to the End-of-Life Vehicles Regulations 2003.”;

(b) in paragraph 45(1), after the words “Subject to sub-paragraph (3) below” there shall be inserted the words “and to regulations 45 and 47 of the End-of-Life Vehicles Regulations 2003”;

(c) in paragraph 45, in Table 4A—

(i) for the entry relating to motor vehicles there shall be substituted the following entry—

“in the first column (kind of waste)	in the second column (activities)	in the third column (seven day limit)
Depolluted motor vehicles	Dismantling, rebuilding, restoring or reconditioning	40 vehicles”;

(ii) for the entry relating to lead acid motor vehicle batteries there shall be substituted the following entry—

“in the first column (kind of waste)	in the second column (activities)	in the third column (seven day limit)
Lead acid motor vehicle batteries (including those whose contents are special waste) not forming part of, nor contained in, a motor vehicle	Sorting	20 tonnes”;

(d) in paragraph 45(2), for paragraph (f) there shall be substituted the following paragraph—

“(f) in the case of waste motor vehicles, they are, where appropriate, stored on an impermeable pavement;”;

(e) in paragraph 45, in Table 4B:

(i) for the entry relating to motor vehicles there shall be substituted the following entry—

“in the first column (kind of waste)	in the second column (maximum total quantity)
Motor vehicles, stored where appropriate on an impermeable pavement	1,000 vehicles”;

(ii) in the entry relating to lead acid motor vehicle batteries, in the first column, for the words “whether or not forming part of, or contained in, a motor vehicle” there shall be substituted the words “not forming part of, nor contained in, a motor vehicle”;

(f) in paragraph 45(6), after the word “shears” there shall be inserted the words “, and “depolluted” in relation to waste motor vehicles means a vehicle which so qualifies as described in regulation 50 of the End-of-Life Vehicles Regulations 2003”.