The Pollution Prevention and Control (England and Wales) Regulations 2000

35.  In Schedule 3 (exempt activities)—

(a) after paragraph 1 insert—

“1A.— (1) The use, under a permit under the 2000 Regulations, of waste glass as part of an activity within Part B of Section 3.3 (the manufacture of glass and glass fibre) of Part 1 of Schedule 1 to the 2000 Regulations if the total quantity of waste glass so used in that activity does not exceed 600,000 tonnes in any period of twelve months.

(2) The storage, at the place where the activity is carried out, of any such waste which is intended to be so used.”;

(b) after paragraph 2 insert—

“2A.— (1) The operation, under a permit under the 2000 Regulations, of a scrap metal furnace with a designed holding capacity of less than 25 tonnes to the extent that it is or forms part of an activity within paragraph (a), (b) or (d) of Part B of Section 2.1 (ferrous metals) or paragraph (a), (h) or (b) of Part B of Section 2.2 (non-ferrous metals) of Part 1 of Schedule 1 to the 2000 Regulations.

(2) The loading or unloading of such a furnace in connection with its operation in a manner covered by the exemption conferred by sub-paragraph (1).

(3) The storage, at the place where such a furnace is located (but not in cases where that place is used for carrying on business as a scrap metal dealer) of scrap metal intended to be submitted to an operation covered by the exemption conferred by sub-paragraph (1).”;

(c) in paragraph 3(a), after “the 1990 Act” insert “or a permit under the 2000 Regulations” and after “1991 Regulations” insert “or an activity within Part B of any Section of Part 1 of Schedule 1 to the 2000 Regulations”;

(d) in paragraph 3(d), after “1990 Act” insert “or a permit under the 2000 Regulations” and after “1991 Regulations” insert “or an activity within Part B of Section 1.1 of Part 1 of Schedule 1 to the 2000 Regulations”;

(e) at the end of paragraph 24(1) insert— “or under a permit under the 2000 Regulations, to the exent that it is or forms part of an activity within paragraph (a) of Part B of Section 3.5 (other mineral activities) of Part 1 of Schedule 1 to the 2000 Regulations”;

(f) at the end of paragraph 29(1) insert “or an exempt incineration plant for the purposes of Section 5.1 of Part 1 of Schedule 1 to the 2000 Regulations”;

(h) at the end of paragraph 44(3) insert— “or an activity described in Section 2.1 (other than in paragraph (d) of Part B) of Part 1 of Schedule 1 to the 2000 Regulations”;

(i) at the end of paragraph 44(4) insert— “or an activity described in Part A(1) or A(2) of Section 2.2 of Part 1 of Schedule 1 to the 2000 Regulations”;

(j) at the end of paragraph 45(2)(a) insert “or a permit under the 2000 Regulations”.