This page provides links to the full text of key pieces of pollution prevention and control environmental legislation that may affect your business in Scotland. The websites hosting the legislation may list amendments separately.
Pollution prevention and control legislation in Scotland sets out the framework for regulating certain types of activities and the procedures that must be applied when regulating these activities including provisions for dealing with applications, the contents of permits issued and the system of appeals.
If you are setting up an environmental management system (EMS) for your business, you can use this list to start compiling your legal register. Your legal adviser or environmental consultant will be able to tell you if other environmental legislation applies to your specific business.
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Amends 2000/323 to empower SEPA to include energy efficiency conditions in PPC permits where required.
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Requires anyone with custody or control of a crop being made into silage or of livestock slurry to carry out works and take steps to prevent pollution of the water environment. Fuel oil provisions revoked by 2006/133.
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Establishes the Environment Agency and SEPA as the regulating bodies for contaminated land, abandoned mines, national parks, pollution control of pollution, conservation of natural resources, conservation or enhancement of the environment, and fisheries.
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Establishes in England, Scotland and Wales the structure and authority for waste management and control of emissions into the environment.
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Revises the EU eco-management and audit scheme (EMAS), a voluntary scheme businesses wanting to evaluate and improve their environmental performance.
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Amends 2000/323 to enable public participation in granting and varying permits and other environmental plans and programmes.
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Sets out a system to control pollution from any installation or mobile plant carrying out specified activities through permits, inspections and control of emissions.
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Amends 2000/323, covering change in operations, relevant dates for permits, health and safety, and exclusions from the register. Also makes minor changes to PPC requirements for combustion, metal production and processing, minerals, chemicals, and waste.
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Corrects an omission in 2003/146.
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Amends 2000/323 to exclude small scale chemical production, requires a permit for slaughtering animals in slaughter houses, defines ensiling for fish-processing, and clarifies the solvent consumption threshold for trailers and vehicle coating activities.
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Amends 2000/323, including rules on inorganic chemicals, incineration and co-incineration of waste, treatment of animal and vegetable matter and food industries.
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Amends 2000/323 to revise definitions and the schedule of activities and installations.
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Amends 2000/323 by adding vehicle refuelling to the list of activities that require a permit and the date the permit is required by.
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Amends 2000/323 to empower SEPA to include energy efficiency conditions in PPC permits where required.
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Enables the partial suspension, revocation, transfer and surrender of site licences, and allows licences held by the same person to be consolidated if they cover the same site or more than one mobile plant.
