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SCHEDULE 1ACTIVITIES, INSTALLATIONS AND MOBILE PLANT

PART 1:ACTIVITIES

Chapter 6—Other Activities

Section 6.1—Paper, Pulp and Board Manufacturing Activities
Part A(1)
(a)

Producing in industrial plant pulp from timber or other fibrous materials.

(b)

Producing in industrial plant paper and board where the plant has a production capacity of more than 20 tonnes per day.

(c)

Any activity associated with making paper pulp or paper, including activities connected with the recycling of paper such as de-inking, if the activity may result in the release into water of any substance listed in paragraph 13 of Part 2 of this Schedule in a quantity which, in any period of 12 months, is greater than the background quantity by more than the amount specified in that paragraph in relation to that substance.

Interpretation of Part A(1)

In paragraph (c), “paper pulp” includes pulp made from wood, grass, straw and similar materials and references to the making of paper are to the making of any product using paper pulp.

Part A(2)

Nil.

Part B

Nil.

Section 6.2—Carbon Activities
Part A(1)
(a)

Producing carbon or hard-burnt coal or electro graphite by means of incineration or graphitisation.

Part A(2)

Nil.

Part B

Nil.

Section 6.3—Tar and Bitumen Activities
Part A(1)
(a)

The following activities—

(i)

distilling tar or bitumen in connection with any process of manufacture; or

(ii)

heating tar or bitumen for the manufacture of electrodes or carbon-based refractory materials,

where the carrying out of the activity by the person concerned at the location in question is likely to involve the use in any period of 12 months of 5 tonnes or more of tar or of bitumen or, in aggregate, of both.

Part A(2)

Nil.

Part B
(a)

Any activity not falling within Part A(1) of this Section or of Section 6.2 involving—

(i)

heating, but not distilling, tar or bitumen in connection with any manufacturing activity; or

(ii)

oxidising bitumen by blowing air through it, at plant where no other activities described in any Section in this Schedule are carried out,

where the carrying out of the activity is likely to involve the use in any period of 12 months of 5 tonnes or more of tar or of bitumen or, in aggregate, of both.

Interpretation of Part B

In this Part “tar” and “bitumen” include pitch.

Section 6.4—Coating Activities, Printing and Textile Treatments
Part A(1)
(a)

Applying or removing a coating material containing any tributyltin compound or triphenyltin compound, if carried out at a shipyard or boatyard where vessels of a length of 25 metres or more can be built, maintained or repaired.

(b)

Pre-treating (by operations such as washing, bleaching or mercerization) or dyeing fibres or textiles in plant with a treatment capacity of more than 10 tonnes per day.

(c)

Treating textiles if the activity may result in the release into water of any substance listed in paragraph 13 of Part 2 of this Schedule in a quantity which, in any period of 12 months, is greater than the background quantity by more than the amount specified in that paragraph in relation to that substance.

Part A(2)
(a)

Unless falling within Part A(1) of this Section, surface treating substances, objects or products using organic solvents, in particular for dressing, printing, coating, degreasing, waterproofing, sizing, painting, cleaning or impregnating, in plant with a consumption capacity of more than 150 kg per hour or more than 200 tonnes per year.

Part B
(a)

Unless falling within Part A(1) or A(2) of this Section or paragraph (c) of Part A(2) of Section 2.1, any process (other than for the repainting or re-spraying of or of parts of aircraft or road or railway vehicles) for applying to a substrate, or drying or curing after such application, printing ink or paint or any other coating material as, or in the course of, a manufacturing activity, where the process may result in the release into the air of particulate matter or of any volatile organic compound and is likely to involve the use in any period of 12 months of—

(i)

20 tonnes or more of printing ink, paint or other coating material which is applied in solid form;

(ii)

20 tonnes or more of any metal coating which is sprayed on in molten form;

(iii)

25 tonnes or more of organic solvents in respect of any cold set web offset printing activity or any sheet fed offset litho printing activity; or

(iv)

5 tonnes or more of organic solvents in respect of any activity not mentioned in sub-paragraph (iii).

(b)

Unless falling within Part A(2) of this Section, repainting or re-spraying road vehicles or parts of them if the activity may result in the release into the air of particulate matter or of any volatile organic compound and the carrying on of the activity is likely to involve the use of 1 tonne or more of organic solvents in any period of 12 months.

(c)

Repainting or re-spraying aircraft or railway vehicles or parts of them if the activity may result in the release into the air of particulate matter or of any volatile organic compound and the carrying out of the activity is likely to involve the use in any period of 12 months of—

(i)

20 tonnes or more of any paint or other coating material which is applied in solid form;

(ii)

20 tonnes or more of any metal coatings which are sprayed on in molten form; or

(iii)

5 tonnes or more of organic solvents.

Interpretation of Part B

1.  In this Part—

2.  The amount of organic solvents used in an activity shall be calculated as—

(a)the total input of organic solvents into the process, including both solvents contained in coating materials and solvents used for cleaning or other purposes; less

(b)any organic solvents that are removed from the process for re-use or for recovery for re-use.

Section 6.5—The Manufacture of Dyestuffs, Printing Ink and Coating Materials
Part A(1)

Nil.

Part A(2)

Nil.

Part B
(a)

Unless falling within Part A(1) or A(2) of any Section in this Schedule—

(i)

manufacturing or formulating printing ink or any other coating material containing, or involving the use of, an organic solvent, where the carrying out of the activity is likely to involve the use of 100 tonnes or more of organic solvents in any period of 12 months;

(ii)

manufacturing any powder for use as a coating material where there is the capacity to produce 200 tonnes or more of such powder in any period of 12 months.

Interpretation of Part B

1.  In this Part, “coating material” has the same meaning as in Section 6.4.

2.  The amount of organic solvents used in an activity shall be calculated as—

(i)the total input of organic solvents into the process, including both solvents contained in coating materials and solvents for cleaning or other purposes; less

(ii)any organic solvents, not contained in coating materials, that are removed from the process for re-use or for recovery for re-use.

Section 6.6—Timber Activities
Part A(1)
(a)

Curing, or chemically treating, as part of a manufacturing process, timber or products wholly or mainly made of wood if any substance listed in paragraph 13 of Part 2 of this Schedule is used.

Part A(2)

Nil.

Part B
(a)

Manufacturing products wholly or mainly of wood at any works if the activity involves the sawing, drilling, shaping, turning, planing, curing or chemical treatment of wood (“relevant activities”) and the throughput of the works in any period of 12 months is likely to be more than—

(i)

10,000 cubic metres, in the case of works at which wood is sawed but at which wood is not subjected to any other relevant activities or is subjected only to relevant activities which are exempt activities; or

(ii)

1,000 cubic metres in any other case.

Interpretation of Part B

In this Part—

Section 6.7—Activities Involving Rubber
Part A(1)

Nil.

Part A(2)

Nil.

Part B
(a)

Unless falling within Part A(1) or A(2) of any Section in this Schedule, the mixing, milling or blending of—

(i)

natural rubber; or

(ii)

synthetic organic elastomers,

if carbon black is used.

(b)

Any activity which converts the product of an activity falling within paragraph (a) into a finished product if related to an activity falling within that paragraph.

section 6.8—the treatment of animal and vegetable matter and food industries
Part A(1)
(a)

Tanning hides and skins at plant with a treatment capacity of more than 12 tonnes of finished products per day.

(b)

Slaughtering animals at plant with a carcass production capacity of more than 50 tonnes per day.

(c)

Disposing of or recycling animal carcasses or animal waste, other than by rendering, at plant with a treatment capacity exceeding 10 tonnes per day of animal carcasses or animal waste or, in aggregate, of both.

(d)

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

(i)

animal raw materials (other than milk) at plant with a finished product production capacity of more than 75 tonnes per day;

(ii)

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

(e)

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

(f)

Processing, storing or drying by the application of heat of the whole or part of any dead animal or any vegetable matter (other than the treatment of effluent so as to permit its discharge into controlled waters or into a sewer unless the treatment involves the drying of any material with a view to its use as animal feedstuff) if—

(i)

the processing, storing or drying does not fall within another Section of this Schedule or Part A(2) of this Section and is not an exempt activity; and

(ii)

it may result in the release into water of any substance listed in paragraph 13 of Part 2 of this Schedule in a quantity which, in any period of 12 months, is greater than the background quantity by more than the amount specified in relation to the substance in that paragraph.

Part A(2)
(a)

Disposing of or recycling animal carcasses or animal waste by rendering at plant with a treatment capacity exceeding 10 tonnes per day of animal carcasses or animal waste, or, in aggregate, of both.

Part B
(a)

Processing, storing or drying by the application of heat of the whole or part of any dead animal or any vegetable matter (other than the treatment of effluent so as to permit its discharge into controlled waters or into a sewer unless the treatment involves the drying of any material with a view to its use as animal feedstuff) if—

(i)

the processing, storing or drying does not fall within another Section of this Schedule or Part A(1) or Part A(2) of this Section and is not an exempt activity; and

(ii)

the processing, storing or drying may result in the release into the air of a substance described in paragraph 12 of Part 2 of this Schedule or any offensive smell noticeable outside the premises on which the activity is carried out.

(b)

Breeding maggots in any case where 5 kg or more of animal matter or of vegetable matter or, in aggregate, of both are introduced into the process in any week.

Interpretation of Section 6.8

In this Section—

Section 6.9—Intensive Farming
Part A(1)
(a)

Rearing poultry or pigs intensively in an installation with more than:

(i)

40,000 places for poultry;

(ii)

2,000 places for production pigs (over 30 kg); or

(iii)

750 places for sows.

Part A(2)

Nil.

Part B

Nil.

(1)

S.I. 1999/646.