The Environmental Protection (Prescribed Processes and Substances Etc.) (Amendment) Regulations 1994

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Regulations)

These Regulations amend two statutory instruments relating to integrated pollution control and local authority air pollution control under Part I of the Environmental Protection Act 1990.

Regulation 2 amends the Environmental Protection (Applications, Appeals and Registers) Regulations 1991 (S.I. 1991/507) to require consultation with the islands or district council in relation to certain processes carried on in Scotland.

Regulation 3 and Schedule 1 make further amendments to the Environmental Protection (Prescribed Processes and Substances) Regulations 1991 (S.I. 1991/472) (“the principal Regulations”). The effect of these amendments is to remove some processes from control under Part I of the Act.

Regulation 4 and Schedules 2 to 5, which come into force on 1st December 1994, make further amendments to the principal Regulations. Regulation 5 and Schedule 6 make transitional provision as to the date from which an authorisation under Part I of the Act is required to carry on a process which, by virtue of these amendments, becomes or ceases to be subject to integrated pollution control or local authority air pollution control, or is transferred from one form of control to the other.

A compliance cost assessment in respect of these Regulations may be obtained from Air Quality Division, Department of the Environment, Romney House, 43 Marsham Street, London SW1P 3PY, Environment Division, Welsh Office, Cathays Park, Cardiff CF1 3NQ, or the Scottish Office, Environment Department, 83 Princes Street, Edinburgh EH2 2ER.

The British Standard ‘Laboratory fume cupboards’ published by the British Standards Institution numbered BS 7258: Part I: 1990, which is referred to in paragraph 1 of Schedule 1 to these Regulations, may be obtained from any of the sales outlets of the British Standards Institution or by post from the Sales Department, British Standards Institution, Linford Wood, Milton Keynes, MK14 6LE (Telephone number: Milton Keynes (STD 0908) 320033).