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

SCHEDULE 1 Activities, installations and mobile plant

PART 2 Activities

CHAPTER 2 Production and Processing of Metals

SECTION 2.3 Surface Treating Metals and Plastic Materials

• Part A(1)

  (a)

  Unless falling within Part A(2) of this Section, surface treating metals and plastic materials using an electrolytic or chemical process where the aggregated volume of the treatment vats is more than 30m³.

• Part A(2)

  (a)

  Surface treating metals and plastic materials using an electrolytic or chemical process where the aggregated volume of the treatment vats is more than 30m³ and where the activity is carried on at the same installation as one or more activities falling within—

  (i)

  Part A(2) or Part B of Section 2.1;

  (ii)

  Part A(2) or Part B of Section 2.2; or

  (iii)

  Part A(2) or Part B of Section 6.4.

• Part B

  (a)

  Any process for the surface treatment of metal which is likely to result in the release into air of any acid-forming oxide of nitrogen and which does not fall within Part A(1) or Part A(2) of this Section.