2009 No. 1799
The Environmental Permitting (England and Wales) (Amendment) Regulations 2009
Made
Coming into force
These Regulations are made in exercise of the powers conferred by section 2 of, and Schedule 1 to, the Pollution Prevention and Control Act 1999 M1.
The Secretary of State, in relation to England, and the Welsh Ministers, in relation to Wales, have in accordance with section 2(4) of that Act consulted—
- a
the Environment Agency;
- b
such bodies or persons appearing to them to be representative of the interests of local government, industry, agriculture and small businesses respectively as they consider appropriate; and
- c
such other bodies or persons as they consider appropriate.
A draft of this instrument has been approved by a resolution of each House of Parliament and by the National Assembly for Wales pursuant to section 2(8) and (9)(d) and (e) of that Act M2.
Accordingly, the Secretary of State, in relation to England, and the Welsh Ministers, in relation to Wales, make the following Regulations.
The reference in section 2(8) to approval by each House of Parliament has effect in relation to exercise of functions by the Welsh Ministers as if it were a reference to approval by the National Assembly for Wales by virtue of paragraph 33 of Schedule 11 to the Government of Wales Act 2006, c. 32.
Citation, commencement and extent1
These Regulations—
a
may be cited as the Environmental Permitting (England and Wales) (Amendment) Regulations 2009;
b
come into force on 7th July 2009; and
c
extend to England and Wales only.
Amendment of the Environmental Permitting (England and Wales) Regulations 2007F12
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Amendment of regulation 2 (interpretation: general)F13
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Amendment of regulation 8 (interpretation: regulated facility)F14
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Amendment of regulation 12 (requirement for an environmental permit)F15
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Amendment of regulation 17 (single site permits etc.)F16
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Amendment of regulation 24 (notification of the surrender of an environmental permit)F17
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Amendment of regulation 31 (appeals to an appropriate authority)F18
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Amendment of regulation 32 (discharge of functions)F19
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Amendment of regulation 33 (direction to a regulator: discharge of functions by a different regulator)F110
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Amendment of regulation 35 (provision in relation to types of regulated facility)F111
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Amendment of regulation 38 (offences)F112
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Amendment of regulation 42 (enforcement by the High Court)F113
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Amendment of regulation 46 (duty of the regulator to maintain a public register)F114
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Amendment of regulation 63 (directions to the Agency: installations outside the United Kingdom)F115
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Amendment of regulation 71 (transitional provision: conversion of PPC permits resulting from applications in relation to existing Part A installations and mobile plant)F116
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Amendment of regulation 72 (savings)F117
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Amendment of Schedule 1 (activities)F118
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Amendment of Schedule 3 (descriptions: exempt waste operations and other operations to which section 33(1)(a) of the 1990 Act does not apply)F119
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Amendment of Schedule 5 (environmental permits)F120
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Amendment of Schedule 6 (appeals to the appropriate authority)F121
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Amendment of Schedule 7 (provision in relation to Part A installations and Part A mobile plant)F122
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Amendment of Schedule 8 (provision in relation to Part B installations and Part B mobile plant)F123
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Amendment of Schedule 10 (provision in relation to landfill)F124
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Insertion of new Schedule 18B (provision in relation to mining waste operations)F125
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Amendment of Schedule 19 (public registers)F126
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Amendment of Schedule 20 (further provision relating to waste)F127
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Consequential amendments28
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Schedule 2 (consequential amendments) has effect.
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F1SCHEDULE 1
SCHEDULE 18BProvision in relation to mining waste operations
Application1
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Interpretation2
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Applications for an environmental permit3
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Review of environmental permits4
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Classification of mining waste facilities5
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Inspections6
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Exercise of relevant functions7
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Public participation8
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Derogation from requirements9
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Closure of a mining waste facility10
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Inventory of closed mining waste facilities11
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Developments in best available techniques12
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Planning permission requirements and conditions13
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Applications for an environmental permit for a Category A mining waste facility14
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SCHEDULE 2Consequential amendments
Environmental Protection Act 19901
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The Environmental Protection Act 1990 M3 is amended as follows.
2
In section 29 (interpretation)—
a
in subsection (3) after “controlled waste”
(in each place where it occurs) insert “
or extractive waste
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,
b
in subsection (4) after “controlled waste”
(in each place where it occurs) insert “
or extractive waste
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,
c
in subsection (8) after “controlled waste” insert “
or extractive waste
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, and
d
in subsection (13) M4 after “exempt waste operation” insert—
“extractive waste”;
“mining waste operation”;
“the Mining Waste Directive”.
3
In section 33 (prohibition on unauthorised or harmful depositing, treatment or disposal etc of waste), in subsection (1)—
a
in paragraph (a), after “controlled waste”
(in each place where it occurs) insert “
or extractive waste
”
, and
b
in paragraph (c) after “controlled waste” insert “
or extractive waste
”
.
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In section 33B (section 33 offences: clean up costs), in subsection (1)(a), after “controlled waste” insert “
or extractive waste
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In section 34 (duty of care)—
a
after subsection (1) insert—
1A
It shall be the duty of any person who is responsible for the management of extractive waste to take all such measures applicable to him in that capacity as are reasonable in the circumstances —
a
to prevent any contravention by any other person of section 33 above;
b
to prevent any contravention by another person of regulation 12 of the 2007 Regulations or of a condition of an environmental permit; and
c
to prevent the escape of the waste from his control or that of any other person.
b
in subsection (6), after “subsection (1)” insert “
, (1A).
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In section 59 (powers to require removal of waste unlawfully deposited), in subsection (1), after “controlled waste” insert “
or extractive waste
”
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Water Resources Act 19912
1
The Water Resources Act 1991 M7 is amended as follows.
2
In section 85 (offences of polluting controlled waters) for subsection (7) substitute—
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For the purposes of subsection (1), “waste” in the term “waste matter” includes—
a
anything that is waste for the purposes of Directive 2006/12/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council on waste, and that is not excluded from the scope of that Directive by Article 2(1) of that Directive;
b
anything that is waste for the purposes of Directive 2006/21/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council on the management of waste from extractive industries and amending Directive 2004/35/EC, and that is not excluded from the scope of that Directive by Article 2(2) of that Directive.
Clean Air Act 19933
1
The Clean Air Act 1993 M8 is amended as follows.
2
In section 41A (relation to the Pollution Prevention and Control Act 1999) in subsection (4) for the definition of “activity” substitute—
activity” includes—
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a waste operation within the meaning of the 2007 Regulations, and
- b
a mining waste operation within the meaning of those Regulations;
1999 c. 24. Functions of the Secretary of State under section 2 (except in relation to offshore oil and gas exploration and exploitation), so far as exercisable in relation to Wales, were transferred to the National Assembly for Wales by article 3 of S.I. 2005/1958. Those functions were then transferred to the Welsh Ministers by paragraph 30 of Schedule 11 to the Government of Wales Act 2006, c. 32.