For the purposes of this Regulation the following definitions shall apply:

1. (1)

   ‘the public’ means one or more natural or legal persons, and, in accordance with national legislation or practice, their associations, organisations or groups;

2. (2)

   ‘competent authority’ means the national authority or authorities, or any other competent body or bodies, designated by the F1appropriate authority;

3. (3)

   ‘installation’ means a stationary technical unit where one or more activities listed in Annex I are carried out, and any other directly associated activities which have a technical connection with the activities carried out on that site and which could have an effect on emissions and pollution;

4. (4)

   ‘facility’ means one or more installations on the same site that are operated by the same natural or legal person;

5. (5)

   ‘site’ means the geographical location of the facility;

6. (6)

   ‘operator’ means any natural or legal person who operates or controls the facility or, where this is provided for in national legislation, to whom decisive economic power over the technical functioning of the facility has been delegated;

7. (7)

   ‘reporting year’ means the calendar year for which data on releases of pollutants and off-site transfers must be gathered;

8. (8)

   ‘substance’ means any chemical element and its compounds, with the exception of radioactive substances;

9. (9)

   ‘pollutant’ means a substance or a group of substances that may be harmful to the environment or to human health on account of its properties and of its introduction into the environment;

10. (10)

    ‘release’ means any introduction of pollutants into the environment as a result of any human activity, whether deliberate or accidental, routine or non-routine, including spilling, emitting, discharging, injecting, disposing or dumping, or through sewer systems without final waste-water treatment;

11. (11)

    ‘off-site transfer’ means the movement beyond the boundaries of a facility of waste destined for recovery or disposal and of pollutants in F2urban waste water destined for waste-water treatment;

12. (12)

    ‘diffuse sources’ means the many smaller or scattered sources from which pollutants may be released to land, air or water, whose combined impact on those media may be significant and for which it is impractical to collect reports from each individual source;

13. (13)

    F3“waste” has the meaning given—

    1. (a)

       in relation to England and Wales, in regulation 2(1) of the Environmental Permitting (England and Wales) Regulations 2016;

    2. (b)

       in relation to Scotland, in regulation 2(1) of the Pollution Prevention and Control (Scotland) Regulations 2012;

    3. (c)

       in relation to Northern Ireland, in regulation 2(1) of the Pollution Prevention and Control (Industrial Emissions) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2013;

14. (14)

    F4“hazardous waste” has the meaning given—

    1. (a)

       in relation to England and Wales, in regulation 6 of the Hazardous Waste (England and Wales) Regulations 2005;

    2. (b)

       in relation to Scotland, in regulation 2(1) of the Pollution Prevention and Control (Scotland) Regulations 2012;

    3. (c)

       in relation to Northern Ireland, in regulation 2(1) of the Pollution Prevention and Control (Industrial Emissions) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2013;

15. (15)

    F5“urban waste water” has the meaning given—

    1. (a)

       in relation to England and Wales, in regulation 2(1) of the Urban Waste Water Treatment (England and Wales) Regulations 1994;

    2. (b)

       in relation to Scotland, in regulation 2(1) of the Urban Waste Water Treatment (Scotland) Regulations 1994;

    3. (c)

       in relation to Northern Ireland, in regulation 2(1) of the Urban Waste Water Treatment Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2007;

16. (16)

    F6“disposal” has the meaning given—

    1. (a)

       in relation to England and Wales, in regulation 2(1) of the Environmental Permitting (England and Wales) Regulations 2016;

    2. (b)

       in relation to Scotland, in regulation 2(1) of the Waste Management Licensing (Scotland) Regulations 2011;

    3. (c)

       in relation to Northern Ireland, in regulation 1(3) of the Waste Management Licensing Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2003;

17. (17)

    F7“recovery” has the meaning given—

    1. (a)

       in relation to England and Wales, in regulation 2(1) of the Environmental Permitting (England and Wales) Regulations 2016;

    2. (b)

       in relation to Scotland, in regulation 2(1) of the Waste Management Licensing (Scotland) Regulations 2011;

    3. (c)

       in relation to Northern Ireland, in regulation 1(3) of the Waste Management Licensing Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2003;

18. (18)

    F8“appropriate authority” means—

    1. (a)

       in relation to England, the Secretary of State;

    2. (b)

       in relation to Wales, the Welsh Ministers;

    3. (c)

       in relation to Scotland, the Scottish Ministers;

    4. (d)

       in relation to Northern Ireland, the Department of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs.

19. (19)

    A reference in Annex 3 to a provision of a Directive is to be read as a reference to that provision in so far as it has been transposed into the law of any part of the United Kingdom.