The Waste Management Licensing Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2003

Waste oils

13.—(1) Where a waste management licence, disposal licence or resolution authorises the regeneration of waste oil, it shall include conditions which ensure that base oils derived from regeneration do not constitute a toxic and dangerous waste and do not contain PCBs or PCTs at all or do not contain them in concentrations beyond a specified maximum limit which in no case is to exceed 50 parts per million.

(2) Where a waste management licence, disposal licence or resolution authorises the keeping of waste oil, it shall include conditions which ensure that it is not mixed with toxic and dangerous waste or PCBs or PCTS.

(3) In this regulation –

“PCBs or PCTs” means polychlorinated biphenyls, polychlorinated terphenyls and mixtures containing one or both of such substances; and

“toxic and dangerous waste” means any waste containing or contaminated by arsenic, arsenic compounds, mercury, mercury compounds, cadmium, cadmium compounds, thallium, thallium compounds, beryllium, beryllium compounds, chrome 6 compounds, lead, lead compounds, antimony, antimony compounds, phenols, phenol compounds, cyanides, organic and inorganic isocyanates, organic-halogen compounds, excluding inert polymeric materials and other substances referred to in this list or covered by other Directives concerning the disposal of toxic or dangerous waste, chlorinated solvents, organic solvents, biocides and phyto-pharmaceutical substances, tarry materials from refining and tar residues from distilling, pharmaceutical compounds, peroxides, chlorates, perchlorates and azides, ethers, chemical laboratory materials, not identifiable and/or new, whose effects on the environment are not known, asbestos (dust and fibres), selenium, selenium compounds, tellurium, tellurium compounds, aromatic polycyclic compounds (with carcinogenic effects), metal carbonyls, soluble copper compounds, acids and/or basic substances used in the surface treatment and finishing of metal; of such a nature, in such quantities or in such concentrations as to constitute a risk to health or the environment.