Air Legislation

• Aerosol Dispensers Regulations 2009 SI 2824

  Aims to protect public health by prohibiting the supply or possession of aerosols not marked as conforming to safety standards.

• Clean Air (Northern Ireland) Order 1981 SI 158 (NI 4) (including updates)

• Climate Change Act 2008

• Climate Change Agreements (Eligible Facilities) Regulations 2001, SI 662

• Climate Change Agreements (Eligible Facilities) Regulations 2006 SI 60

• Climate Change Agreements (Eligible Facilities) (Amendment) Regulations 2006 SI 1931

• Climate Change Agreements (Eligible Facilities) (Amendment) Regulations 2009 SI 2458

• Climate Change Agreements (Energy-intensive Installations) Regulations 2001, SI 1139

• Climate Change Agreements (Energy-intensive Installations) Regulations 2006 SI 59

• Climate Change Levy (General) Regulations 2001, SI 838

• Controls on Ozone-Depleting Substances Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2011 SR 239

  Implements EC Regulation 1005/2009 on substances that deplete the ozone layer and provides that any breach of the EU Regulation is a punishable offence.

• Environment (Northern Ireland) Order 2002 SI 3153 (NI 7) (including amendments up to 2004)

  Covers several environmental issues, including pollution prevention control, assessment and management of air quality, and designation of areas of special scientific interest (ASSIs).

• Environmental Protection (Controls on Ozone– Depleting Substances) (Amendment) Regulations 2008 SI 91

  Extends 2003/97 to offshore installations.

• EU Directive relating to aerosol dispensers 324/1975

  Requires aerosol dispensers to be marked to confirm they satisfy the safety measures laid down in the Annex to the Directive.

• EU Regulation on Certain Fluorinated Greenhouse Gases 842/2006

  Aims to reduce emissions of fluorinated greenhouse gases through measures for their containment, use, recovery and destruction.

• EU Regulation on Persistent Organic Pollutants 850/2004

• EU Regulation on ozone depleting substances 1005/2009

  Replaces and updates 2037/2000. Allows governments to impose new requirements on handling, use, import, export, recovery, recycling, reclaming, destruction and trading of listed substances. Sets out plan to phase out production, trade and use of HCFCs.

• EU Regulation 744/2010 amending EU Regulation 1005/2009 on ozone depleting substances

  Amends 1005/2009 by banning the use of halons in firefighting equipment except for military and aviation uses.

• Fluorinated Greenhouse Gas Regulations 2009 SI 261

  Applies fully in England, Scotland and Wales. Only aspects relating to imports of fluorinated gases into the UK from outside of the European Community apply in Northern Ireland.

• Fluorinated Greenhouse Gases Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2009 SR 184

  Introduces offences regarding leakages, record keeping, instruction manuals, F-gas recovery, labelling of products containing F-gases, restrictions on the use of sulphur hexafluoride and on placing F-gases on the market, and qualification requirements.

• Greenhouse Gas Emissions Trading Scheme Regulations 2005 SI 925

• Greenhouse Gas Emissions Trading Scheme (Amendment) Regulations 2007 SI 465

• Greenhouse Gas Emissions Trading Scheme Charging Scheme Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2010 SR 151

  Allows NIEA to make a Northern Ireland charging scheme for the cost of regulating the EU Emissions trading scheme.

• Motor Vehicles (Refilling of Air Conditioning Systems by Service Providers) Regulations 2009 (Adobe PDF - 68KB)

  Makes it an offence (for which you can be fined) for anyone servicing a vehicle air-conditioning system to refill it with fluorinated gases if there has been an abnormal leak of refrigerant and before repairs have been completed.

• Ozone-Depleting Substances (Qualifications) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2011 SR 240

  Implements provisions in EC Regulation 1005/2009 by specifying the minimum training and qualifications required by anyone working with ozone-depleting substances, such as refrigeration, air conditioning and heat pump equipment and fire protection systems.

• Pollution Control and Local Government (Northern Ireland) Order 1978 SR 1049 (NI 19)

  Regulates waste on land, abandoned vehicles, noise nuisance, noise abatement zones, sulphur content of oil fuel used in furnaces and engines, cable burning, and pollution of the atmosphere and water. Other aspects have been revoked.

• Renewable Transport Fuel Obligations Order 2007 SI 3072

  Requires road vehicle fuel suppliers to prove that a certain amount of renewable transport fuel (e.g. biodiesel, bioethanol, etc) has been supplied in the UK.

• Renewable Transport Fuel Obligations (Amendment) Order 2009 SI 843

  Amends 2007/3072, which requires road transport fuel suppliers to produce certificates to show that a proportion of their fuel is renewable, by reducing the amount that this proportion increases every year until 2013.

• Road Vehicles (Construction and Use) Regulations 1986 SI 1078

  Lays down requirements to reduce the environmental impact of constructing, maintaining and using road vehicles, particularly smoke, vapour and gas emissions.