The Environmental Permitting (England and Wales) Regulations 2007

Regulation 35(l)

SCHEDULE 18 Provision in relation to petrol vapour recovery

Application

1.  This Schedule applies in relation to every activity within sub-paragraphs (c) and (d) of Part B of Section 1.2 of Chapter 1 of Part 2 of Schedule 1.

Interpretation

2.  In this Schedule, “the Petrol Vapour Recovery Directive” means European Parliament and Council Directive 94/63/EC on the control of volatile organic compound (VOC) emissions resulting from the storage of petrol and its distribution from terminals to service stations(1).

Exercise of relevant functions

3.—(1) The regulator must exercise its relevant functions so as to ensure compliance with the following provisions of the Petrol Vapour Recovery Directive—

(a) Article 3(1), first paragraph;

(b) Article 4(1), first and last paragraphs, and 4(3);

(c) Article 6(1), first paragraph.

(2) When interpreting the Petrol Vapour Recovery Directive for the purposes of this paragraph—

(a) in point 1 of Annex I, “special landscape areas which have been designated by national authority” includes the Broads, the New Forest and any National Park or Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty; and

(b) ignore points 2.3, 3.2 and 3.5 of Annex IV.

(1)

OJ No. L 365, 31.12.1994, p24, as amended by Regulation (EC) No. 1882/2003 (OJ No. L 284, 31.10.2003, p1).