The Pollution Prevention and Control (Scotland) Regulations 2000

PART A

(a)

Tanning hides and skins where the treatment capacity exceeds 12 tonnes of finished products per day.

(b)

Disposing of or recycling animal carcasses and animal waste except by incineration at installations with a capacity exceeding 10 tonnes per day.

(c)

Slaughtering animals with a carcass production capacity greater than 50 tonnes per day.

(d)

Treating and processing materials intended for the production of food products from–

(i)

animal raw materials (other than milk) with a finished product production capacity greater than 75 tonnes per day;

(ii)

vegetable raw materials with a finished product production capacity greater than 300 tonnes per day (average value on a quarterly basis).

(e)

Treating and processing milk, the quantity of milk received being greater than 200 tonnes per day (average value on an annual basis).

(f)

The following activities if operated at installations not falling within a description in another Section or an exempt activity, namely processing in anyway whatsoever, storing or drying by the application of heat of any dead animal (or part thereof) or any vegetable matter if the process may result in the release into water of any substance listed in the Table in paragraph 13 of Part 2 of this Schedule in a quantity which, in any 12 month period, exceeds the background quantity by more than the amount specified in relation to the description of the substance set out in column 1 of that Table in the corresponding entry in column 2 of that Table: but excluding any activity that treats effluent so as to permit its discharge into controlled waters or into a sewer unless the treatment process involves the drying of any material with a view to its use as an animal feedstuffs.