Supplementary applications in relation to installations covered by the Solvent Emissions Directive
6.—(1) Where an operator has made or is deemed to have made an application under regulation 7 of the 2000 Regulations to operate an installation containing an SED installation (the “original application”) and–
(a)the operator wishes to make a substantial change in the operation of the SED installation, to install abatement equipment, to begin using a risk phrase substance or preparation or a substance or preparation used in the installation becomes a risk phrase substance or preparation before the original application has been determined; or
(b)the operator wishes to use a reduction scheme and the original application has not been determined by SEPA by 31st August 2005; or
(c)in relation to an installation for which the prescribed date is determined in accordance with paragraph 18(5) of Part 4 of Schedule 3 to the 2000 Regulations (determination of the prescribed date for an SED installation carrying out activities which are only partly also activities falling within any section of Chapters 1 to 6 of Part 1 of Schedule 1 and any directly associated activities), the original application is not determined by SEPA before the date for which the operator is required to apply for a permit for the remaining part of the installation,
the operator may make a supplementary application to SEPA.
(2) A supplementary application under paragraph (1) shall contain–
(a)in the case of an application under paragraph (1)(a), a description of the substantial change in the operation or abatement equipment to be installed or the risk phrase substance or preparation to be used or which has been assigned;
(b)in the case of an application under paragraph (1)(b), details of the proposed reduction scheme; and
(c)any other information which would be required under Schedule 4 to the 2000 Regulations to be included in an application to operate the installation which is not in the original application.
(3) Where an operator makes a supplementary application under paragraph (1) then subject to the consent of SEPA–
(a)the original application shall be amended to include the provisions of the supplementary application; and
(b)the resulting application shall be deemed to have been made on the date the supplementary application is made.