Pollution Prevention and Control - NEWS
The aim of this webpage is to provide news updates on developments in Pollution Prevention and Control, relating to installations regulated by Derbyshire Dales District Council. Updates are primarily drawn from information provided by DEFRA or the Environment Agency.
March 2008 - Annual subsistence fees for Part B and A2 installations
January 2008 - Environmental Permitting Regulations 2007
January 2008 - Revised General Guidance Manual (GGM) issued by DEFRA to incorporate the Environmental Permitting Regulations 2007
November 2007 - Summary of proposed subsistence fees for 2008/9
October 2007 - Revised SG7 (Ceramics Sector) issued by DEFRA
August 2007 - European Pollutant Release Transfer Register Regulations (EPRTR), DEFRA consultation
July 2007 - Clean Fuel Oil, DEFRA response
July 2007 - Clean Fuel Oil
June 2007 - Environmental Permitting Regulations
June 2007 - European Pollutant Release Transfer Register Regulation (EPRTR)
March 2007 - Clean Fuel Oil
Further information can be obtained from:
Pollution Control Officer
Town Hall
Matlock
DE4 3NN
Tel. 01629 761227
Fax 01629 761165
March 2008 - Annual subsistence fees for Part B and A2 installations
DEFRA have released the 2008/9 subsistence fees for Part B and A2 installations. A summary of the fees and charges can be downloaded from the DEFRA website.
January 2008 - Environmental Permitting Regulations 2007
The new Environmental Permitting Regulations 2007 (SI 2007 3538) will come into force on 6 April 2008, and will replace the Pollution Prevention and Control Regulations 2000.
Environmental Permitting Regulations 2007
January 2008 - Revised General Guidance Manual (GGM) issued by DEFRA to incorporate the Environmental Permitting Regulations 2007
DERFA have released a revised General Guidance Manual to reflect the change from 6 April 2008 from the Pollution Prevention and Control Regulations 2000 to the Environmental Permitting Regulations 2007. The manual can be downloaded from the DEFRA webpage.
November 2007 - Summary of proposed subsistence fees for 2008/9
The proposed 2008/9 annual subsistence fees have been released by DEFRA. Summary of proposed increases 2008.doc
DEFRA fees and charges
October 2007 - Revised SG7 (Ceramics Sector) issued by DEFRA
DEFRA have published a revised version of SG7, which can be downloaded here.
August 2007 -European Pollutant Release Transfer Register Regulations (EPRTR), DEFRA consultation
DEFRA have released consultation documents in respect of the EPRTR. These regulations will affect all Part A(2) processes. The closing date for responses is 24 October 2007.
It is proposed that local authorities will be the competent authority for collecting data relating to Part A(2) processes and some Part B processes. The Environment Agency will be the competent authority for Part A(1) processes, waste-water treatment plants with a capacity exceeding 100,000 population equivalents, underground mining operations, opencast quarrying and mining activities (exceeding 25 hectares) and intensive aquaculture with a production capacity exceeding 1000 tones of fish and shellfish per year.
Where the local authority is the competent authority, data will be collected electronically on a form to be supplied by DEFRA in due course. For the 2007 reporting year, data must be submitted to the local authority by 28 April 2008. For all remaining years, the data must be submitted by 28 February for the previous calendar year.
Operators must keep records of the data they submit, and the methodology used to derive that data, for a period of five years.
DEFRA consultation
July 2007 - Clean Fuel Oil, DEFRA response
DEFRA have issued an AQ Note on the recent ruling of the Court of Appeal, which went in favour of OSS. The Environment Agency intend to set up a Task and Finish Group to develop an 'end of waste test' to define when waste oils cease to be waste. It aims to develop a standard within three months. In the interim, CFO (and equivalent products) will be considered as non-waste if they meet British Standard 2869:2006 (Table 3) for Class G oils.
AQ Note 17(07) - Clean Fuel Oil
July 2007 - Clean Fuel Oil
On 28 June the Court of Appeal over ruled the previous decision regarding the status of Clean Fuel Oil (CFO) as waste. The Court of Appeal held that the Environment Agency's view of the definition of waste was too narrow, and CFO could be burnt otherwise than as waste.
The full details can be found at:
British and Irish Legal Information Institute
June 2007 - Environmental Permitting Regulations
Over the last year, DEFRA has been consulting on the Environmental Permitting (England and Wales) Regulations, which will come into force in April 2008. The Regulations will replace the Pollution Prevention and Control Regulations 2000. The aim of the Environmental Permitting Regulations is to combine and simplify waste management licences (WMLs) and the Pollution Prevention and Control (PPC) permitting system. It is anticipated the Environmental Permitting Regulations will simplify a range of different pieces of legislation into one set of regulations. Existing PPC permits will automatically become Environmental Permits when the new Regulations come into force. DEFRA have produced a short booklet entitled Simplifying Regulation for Waste Management and Pollution Prevention and Control.
Further information can be found at:
DEFRA - Consultation of the Environmental Permitting Programme: draft revision of the general guidance manual
NETREGS - Environmental Permitting Programme
June 2007 - European Pollutant Release Transfer Register Regulation (EPRTR)
All A(2) operators will have to collect data on mass emissions from their installation due to the introduction of EU Regulation 166/2006 - Establishment of a European Pollutant Release and Transfer Register. The first reporting year is 2007. All installations are expected to provided data on the amounts of:
(a) releases to air, water and land of the pollutants listed in Annex A of AQ Note 9(07), but only where the amount released is above the thresholds specified in Annex A of AQ Note 9(07);
(b) waste sent for recovery or disposal off-site if: (i) for hazardous waste, more than 2 tonnes is sent for recovery or disposal in a year; or (ii) for non-hazardous waste, more than 2000 tonnes is sent for recovery or disposal in a year.
(c) the amount of any pollutant listed in Annex A of AQ Note 9(07),that is sent to a waste water treatment plant, but only where the amount released is above the thresholds specified in Annex A, column 1b.
A consultation is expected to be launched by DEFRA in June 2007 on the collection and collation of the above information.
Further information on the EPRTR can be found at:
The European Pollutant Emission Register
AQ9(07) - EPRTR
Regulation 166/2006 - Establishment of a European Pollutant Release and Transfer Register
March 2007 - Clean Fuel Oil
In February the Environment Agency successfully appealed against the injunction preventing it from taking enforcement action against users of Clean Fuel Oil (CFO). CFO is a residual fuel oil produced to BS2869:2000 from waste fuel oils, at a refinery operated by the OSS Group. The Environment Agency classify CFO as waste and as such the burning of this oil triggers the requirements of the Waste Incineration Directive (WID; 2000/76/EC). CFO is an oil that can be used as a fuel on roadstone coating plants, which are regulated as Part B processes by Local Authorities. Guidance on the use of CFO, and meeting the requirements of the Waste Incineration Directive are currently (June 2007) being prepared by DEFRA. Further information on CFO and the Waste Incineration Directive can be found at:
Netregs - Waste Incineration Directive
DEFRA - AQ4(06) Roadstone Coating Plant: Use of Waste Oil