The Climate Change Agreements (Energy–intensive Installations) Regulations 2006

1.  These Regulations may be cited as the Climate Change Agreements (Energy–intensive Installations) Regulations 2006 and come into force on the third day after the one on which they are made.

2.—(1) The energy-intensive installations covered by the Finance Act 2000 Schedule 6 paragraph 51(1) (“paragraph 51”) include any installation falling within any one or more of the descriptions of installation specified in the Schedule to these Regulations.

(2) But paragraph (3) applies where—

(a) an installation falls within any one or more of those descriptions, and

(b) there is, on the same site as that installation, at least one location at which ancillary activities are carried out.

(3) That installation (taken alone) is not covered by paragraph 51, but the combination of that installation and every such location is to be taken as an installation so covered.

(4) In paragraph (2), “ancillary activities” are only—

(a) those that are directly associated with any of the primary activities carried out in the installation,

(b) have a technical connection with those primary activities, and

(c) could have an effect on environmental pollution.

(5) In paragraph (4)—

“primary activities”, in relation to an installation falling within any one or more of the descriptions of installation set out in the Schedule to these Regulations, refers to an activity the carrying out of which at the installation results in the installation falling within one or more of those descriptions;

“environmental pollution” bears the same meaning as in the Pollution Prevention and Control Act 1999(2).

Dave Watts

Gillian Merron

Two of the Lords Commissioners of Her Majesty’s Treasury

18th January 2006