The Pollution Prevention and Control (Scotland) Regulations 2012 No. 360

SCHEDULE 1 S ACTIVITIES AND INSTALLATIONS AND MOBILE PLANT

PART 1 S ACTIVITIES

CHAPTER 3 S MINERAL INDUSTRIES

SECTION 3.2 S Activities involving asbestos

PART A S

(a) Producing asbestos or manufacturing products based on or containing asbestos.

(b) Stripping asbestos from railway vehicles except—

(i) in the course of the repair or maintenance of the vehicle,

(ii) in the course of recovery operations following an accident

(iii) where the asbestos is permanently bonded in any material, including in particular in cement, plastic, rubber or resin.

PART B S

The industrial finishing, including shaping, drilling, or fitting manufactured asbestos products, of any of the following products where not carried out in conjunction with manufacture—

• asbestos filters,

• asbestos friction products,

• asbestos jointing, packaging, and reinforcement material,

• asbestos packing,

• asbestos textiles.

Interpretation of Section 3.2 S

In this Section, “asbestos” includes any of the following fibrous silicates: actinolite, amosite, anthophyllite, chrysotile, crocidolite and tremolite.