SCHEDULE 8Amendments to other enactments
Amendments to the Environmental Permitting (England and Wales) Regulations 20072
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The Environmental Permitting (England and Wales) Regulations 2007 M1 are amended as follows.
2
In regulation 2(1)—
a
after the definition of “appropriate authority”, insert—
“the Batteries Directive” means Directive 2006/66/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council on batteries and accumulators and waste batteries and accumulators and repealing Directive 91/157/EEC;
b
after the definition of “waste”, insert—
“waste battery or accumulator” has the meaning given by Article 3(7) of the Batteries Directive, but does not include any waste which is excluded from the scope of that Directive by Article 2(2);
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After regulation 68, insert—
Further provision in relation to waste batteries and accumulators68A
1
Paragraph (2) applies to any environmental permit which—
a
immediately before the coming into force of the Waste Batteries and Accumulators Regulations 2009, authorised a waste operation which involves treatment of waste batteries or accumulators; and
b
does not require compliance with Article 12(2) of the Batteries Directive.
2
If this paragraph applies, the environmental permit must be read as if it contained the following condition—
Treatment of waste batteries and accumulators must meet the minimum requirements set out in Annex III, Part A of Directive 2006/66/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council on batteries and accumulators and waste batteries and accumulators and repealing Directive 91/157/EEC.
3
In this regulation, “treatment” has the meaning given in Article 3(10) of the Batteries Directive.
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