The Pollution Prevention and Control (Scotland) Regulations 2012

PART 1 Solvent emission activities

1.  An activity listed in column 1 of table 1 is a solvent emissions activity if it is operated above the solvent consumption threshold (“SCT”) as described in column 2 of the table.

Table 1

Activity	SCT (tonnes/year)
1. Heatset web offset printing	15
2. Publication rotogravure	25
3. Other rotogravure, flexography, rotary screen printing, laminating or varnishing units	15
4. Rotary screen printing on textiles or cardboard	30
5. Surface cleaning using substances that are— (a) volatile organic compounds assigned, or that need to carry, one or more of the hazard statements(1) H340, H350, H350i, H360D or H360F (b) halogenated volatile organic compounds are assigned, or that need to carry, either of the hazard statements H341 or H351	1
6. Other surface cleaning	2
7. Vehicle coating and vehicle refinishing	0.5
8. Coil coating	25
9. Other coating activities, including metal, plastic, textiles (except rotary screen printing on textiles), fabric, film and paper coating	5
10. Winding wire coating	5
11. Coating activity applied to wooden surfaces	15
12. Dry cleaning	0
13. Wood impregnation	25
14. Coating activity applied to leather	10
15. Footwear manufacture	5
16. Wood and plastic lamination	5
17. Adhesive coating	5
18. Manufacture of coating mixtures, varnishes, inks and adhesives	100
19. Rubber conversion	15
20. Vegetable oil and animal fat extraction and vegetable oil refining activities	10
21. Manufacturing of pharmaceutical products	50

2.  Paragraph 1 is interpreted in accordance with paragraphs 3 to 6.

3.  An activity listed in table 1 is deemed to be operated above the solvent consumption threshold if it is likely to be operated above that threshold in any period of 12 months.

4.  An activity listed in table 1 includes the cleaning of equipment in respect of the activity but not, except for a surface cleaning activity, the cleaning of products.

5.  Where an activity listed in table 1 is carried out in different parts of a stationary technical unit, or in different units on the same site, the capacities of each part or unit are added together and the total capacity attributed to each part or unit for the purpose of determining whether the activity is operated above the threshold.

6.  In the period to 31st May 2015, the entry in column 1 of the fifth row of the Table in Part 1 is to be read as if—

(a) “or one or more of the risk phrases R45, R46, R49, R60 or R61” is inserted after “H360F”, and

(b) “or either of the risk phrases R40 or R68” is inserted after “H351”.

(1)

See the Hazardous Substances Regulation, as defined in regulation 2(1), for the meaning of ‘hazard statements’ and ‘risk phrases’.