The Pollution Prevention and Control (England and Wales) Regulations 2000

Section 6.6—Timber Activities E+W

Part A(1) E+W

(a)

Curing, or chemically treating, as part of a manufacturing process, timber or products wholly or mainly made of wood if any substance listed in paragraph 13 of Part 2 of this Schedule is used.

Part A(2) E+W

Nil.

Part B E+W

(a)

Manufacturing products wholly or mainly of wood at any works if the activity involves the sawing, drilling, shaping, turning, planing, curing or chemical treatment of wood (“relevant activities”) and the throughput of the works in any period of 12 months is likely to be more than—

(i)

10,000 cubic metres, in the case of works at which wood is sawed but at which wood is not subjected to any other relevant activities or is subjected only to relevant activities which are exempt activities; or

(ii)

1,000 cubic metres in any other case.

Interpretation of Part B E+W

In this Part—

• “relevant activities” other than sawing are “exempt activities” where, if no sawing were carried out at the works, the activities carried out there would be unlikely to result in the release into the air of any substances listed in paragraph 12 of Part 2 of this Schedule in a quantity which is capable of causing significant harm;

• “throughput” shall be calculated by reference to the amount of wood which is subjected to any of the relevant activities, but where, at the same works, wood is subject to two or more relevant activities, no account shall be taken of the second or any subsequent activity;

• “wood” includes any product consisting wholly or mainly of wood; and

• “works” includes a sawmill or any other premises on which relevant activities are carried out on wood.