These Regulations amend the Pollution Prevention and Control Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2003 relating to: identification of the circumstances in which fuel that comprises waste gases from landfill can be burnt by combustion appliances with a specified aggregated rated thermal input, without requiring a combustion activity permit under the principal Regulations; permits for motor vehicle refuelling activities; in order to meet an obligation arising from the UN Economic Committee for Europe Geneva Protocol to the 1979 Convention on Long-Range Transboundary Air Pollution Concerning the Control of Emissions of Volatile Organic Compounds or their Transboundary Fluxes; and incineration and co-incineration of waste. They also insert a new Schedule 3 relating to refuelling installations.
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland · 2007-04-18