The Pipe-lines, Petroleum, Electricity Works and Oil Stocking (Miscellaneous Amendments) (EU Exit) Regulations 2018

Amendments to the Offshore Combustion Installations (Pollution Prevention and Control) Regulations 2013

8.—(1) The Offshore Combustion Installations (Pollution Prevention and Control) Regulations 2013(1) are amended as follows.

(2) In regulation 2, after paragraph (2) insert—

“(3) Subject to the exception in regulation 11A(b), any provision of the 2010 Directive referred to in these Regulations is to be read as if requirements imposed under the provision on a member State were requirements imposed on the Secretary of State.”.

(3) In the headings of regulations 6 and 20, in regulation 6(2) and (3) and in regulation 20(2)(a) and (b), (3) and (4), omit “other”.

(4) In both places it occurs in regulations 5(2)(e) and 6(1) and in regulations 7(1)(a)(ii), 8(2)(a)(ii), 9(2)(f), 12(5) and 20(1), for “another member State” substitute “a member State”.

(5) In regulation 7(1)(b)—

(a) omit “where Article 4 of the EIA Directive applies”;

(b) for “under Articles” substitute “under retained EU law that implemented Articles 4,”.

(6) At the end of regulation 11A(b), insert “except that the Secretary of State has no obligation to inform the Commission of any derogation granted under paragraph (5) or (6)”.

(7) In regulation 12—

(a) omit paragraph (3)(b) and the word “and” immediately preceding it;

(b) for “under Articles” substitute “under retained EU law that implemented Articles 4,”.

(1)

S.I. 2013/971, amended by S.I. 2016/912 and 2018/798.