The Environmental Authorisations (Scotland) Regulations 2018

[F1 Interpretation: general S

4.   In this schedule—

“the 2002 Council Decision” means Council Decision 2003/33/EC of 19 December 2002 establishing criteria and procedures for the acceptance of waste at landfills pursuant to Article 16 of and Annex II to Directive 1999/31/EC,

“biodegradable waste” means any waste that is capable of undergoing anaerobic or aerobic decomposition, such as food and garden waste, and paper and paperboard,

“definite closure” means the stage that begins with the service of a closure notice and compliance with paragraph 14(3) and ends with the surrender or revocation of the authorisation and the phrase “definitively closed” is to be construed accordingly,

“eluate” means the solution obtained by a laboratory leaching test,

“granular waste” includes all wastes that are not monolithic,

“isolated settlement” means a settlement—

(a)

with no more than 500 inhabitants per municipality or settlement and no more than 5 inhabitants per square kilometre,

(b)

where the distance to the nearest urban agglomeration with at least 250 inhabitants per square kilometre is not less than 50 km or with difficult access by road to those nearest agglomerations, due to harsh meteorological conditions during a significant part of the year,

“inert waste” means waste which—

(a)

does not undergo any significant physical, chemical or biological transformations,

(b)

does not dissolve, burn or otherwise physically or chemically react, biodegrade or adversely affect other matter with which it comes into contact in a way likely to give rise to environmental harm,

(c)

has insignificant total leachability and pollutant content, and the ecotoxicity of its leachate is insignificant, and, in particular, does not endanger the quality of any surface water or groundwater,

“L/S = 10 1/kg” means a liquid to solid ratio of 10 litres to one kilogram,

“landfill gas” means all the gases generated from the landfilled waste,

“liquid waste” means any waste in liquid form including waste waters but excluding sludge,

“leachate” means any liquid percolating through the deposited waste and emitted from or contained within a landfill,

“mercury” means metallic mercury (Hg, CAS RN 7439-97-6),

“PAHs (Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons)” means naphthalene, acenaphtylene, acenaphthene, anthracene, benzo(a)anthracene, benzo(b)fluoranthene, benzo(k)fluoranthene, benzo(g,h,i)perylene, benzo(a)pyrene, chrysene, coronene, dibenzo(a,h)anthracene, fluorene, fluoranthene, indeno(1, 2, 3-c,d)pyrene, phenanthrene and pyrene,

“relevant waste acceptance criteria” means the waste acceptance criteria set out in Part 3 of this schedule which apply to the class of landfill to which that landfill belongs,

“stable, non-reactive hazardous waste” means hazardous waste, the leaching behaviour of which will not change adversely in the long-term, under landfill design conditions or foreseeable accidents—

(a)

in the waste alone (for example, by biodegradation),

(b)

under the impact of long-term ambient conditions (for example, water, air, temperature, mechanical constraints),

(c)

by the impact of other wastes (including waste products such as leachate and gas),

“treatment” means the physical, thermal, chemical or biological processes, including sorting, which change the characteristics of the waste in order to reduce its volume or hazardous nature, facilitate its handling or enhance recovery,

“underground storage” means a permanent waste storage facility in a deep geological cavity such as a salt or potassium mine,

“waste regularly generated in the same process” means individual and consistent wastes regularly generated in the same process, where—

(a)

the installation and the process generating the waste are well known and the input materials to the process and the process itself are well defined,

(b)

the operator of the installation provides all necessary information and informs the operator of the landfill of changes to the process (especially changes to the input material),

(c)

the waste comes from a single installation or, if from different installations, it can be identified as single stream with common characteristics within known boundaries (e.g., bottom ash from the incineration of municipal waste), and

(d)

there is no significant change in the generation processes,

but does not include wastes which do not require testing in accordance with paragraph 29(4)(a) or (c) of this schedule.]

Textual Amendments

F1 Sch. 13 inserted (1.11.2025) by The Environmental Authorisations (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 2025 (S.S.I. 2025/165), reg. 1(2), sch. 4 (with sch. 23)