Amendment of Part 2 of Schedule 12.

(1)

Part 2 of Schedule 1 (activities) to the Environmental Permitting (England and Wales) Regulations 20103 is amended as follows.

(2)

In Section 2.2 (non-ferrous metals) in Part A(2), for paragraph (a), substitute—

“(a)

Melting, including making alloys, of non-ferrous metals, including recovered products (such as refining or foundry casting) where the plant has a melting capacity of more than 4 tonnes per day for lead or cadmium or 20 tonnes per day for all other metals, and

(i)

no furnace (other than a vacuum furnace), bath or other holding vessel used in the plant for the melting has a design holding capacity of 5 or more tonnes; or

(ii)

the plant uses a vacuum furnace of any design holding capacity.”.

(3)

In Section 6.5 (manufacture of dyestuffs, printing ink and coating materials), in Part B(a)(ii), after “coating material” insert—

“where the process uses lead chromate or triglycidyl isocyanurate and”.

(4)

In Section 6.8 (treatment of animal and vegetable matter and food industries), in paragraph 1—

(a)

in the definition of “excluded activity”, at the end of paragraph (n) add—

“,

(o)

the drying of green crops”;

(b)

after the definition of “food” insert—

““green crops” means alfalfa (Lucerne), clover, grass, perennial ryegrass, tall fescue and other similar crops;”.