The Environmental Permitting (England and Wales) Regulations 2007

Exercise of relevant functions

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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.