SI 2016/1154

The Environmental Permitting (England and Wales) Regulations 2016.  Comes into force 1^st January 2017.    These Regulations provide a consolidated system of environmental permitting in England and Wales. They replace the Environmental Permitting (England and Wales) Regulations 2010 (SI 2010/675).  They transpose provisions of fifteen EU Directives which impose obligations required to be delivered through permits or capable of being delivered through permits.

Part 1 contains general provisions, in particular interpretation. Regulation 8 defines the term “regulated facility” and Regulation 12 requires every regulated facility to be operated under the authority of an environmental permit. Part 2 sets out the procedures in relation to environmental permits. Part 3 provide for the discharge of functions by the regulator in relation to permits.   Part 4 contains enforcement-related provisions. Part 5 makes provision for public registers to be kept by the regulator.

Schedules:

• 1; Activities, installations and mobile plant
• 2; Exempt facilities: general
• 3; Exempt facilities and waste operations to which section 33(1)(a) of the 1990 Act does not apply: descriptions and conditions
• 4; Application to the Crown
• 5; Environmental permits
• 6; Appeals to the appropriate authority
• 7; Part A installations: Industrial Emissions Directive
• 8; Part B installations and Part B mobile plant etc.
• 9; Waste operations and materials facilities
• 10; Landfill
• 11; Waste motor vehicles
• 12; Waste electrical and electronic equipment
• 13; Waste incineration: Industrial Emissions Directive
• 14; Solvent emission activities
• 15; Large combustion plants: Industrial Emissions Directive
• 16; Asbestos
• 17; Titanium dioxide: Industrial Emissions Directive
• 18; Petrol vapour recovery
• 19; Waste batteries and accumulators
• 20; Mining waste operations
• 21; Water discharge activities
• 22; Groundwater activities
• 23; Radioactive substances activities
• 24; Efficiency in heating and cooling energy: Energy Efficiency Directive
• 25; Flood risk activities and excluded flood risk activities
• 26; Enforcement undertakings
• 27; Public registers
• 28; Revocations
• 29; Consequential amendments

Regulations revoked by these Regulations are:

• The Environmental Permitting (England and Wales) 2007 (SI 2007/3538) and amendments (SI 2009/1799 and SI 2009/3381).
• The Environmental Permitting (England and Wales) Regulations 2010 (SI 2010/675) and amendments (SI 2010/676, SI 2010/2172, SI 2011/2043, SI 2011/2933, SI 2012/630, SI 2013/390, SI 2013/766, SI 2014/255, SI 2014/2852, SI 2015/324, SI 2015/918, SI 2015/934 SI 2015/1756, SI 2016/149 and SI 2016/475).

Acts amended by these Regulations are:

• Continental Shelf Act 1964,
• Nuclear Installations Act 1965,
• Control of Pollution Act 1974,
• Salmon and Freshwater Fisheries Act 1975,
• Highways Act 1980,
• Environmental Protection Act 1990,
• Atomic Weapons Establishment Act 1991,
• Water Industry Act 1991,
• Water Resources Act 1991,
• Water Consolidation (Consequential Provisions) Act 1991,
• Clean Air Act 1993,
• Goods Vehicles (Licensing of Operators) Act 1995,
• Environment Act 1995,
• Petroleum Act 1998,
• Finance Act 2000,
• Energy Act 2004,
• Planning Act 2008,
• Energy Act 2008,
• Scrap Metal Dealers Act 2013,
• Defence Reform Act 2014.

One hundred and twenty-one Statutory Instruments also have amendments made under these Regulations.  Regulations of relevance which have amendments are:

• SI 1994/2834; Urban Waste Water Treatment (England and Wales) Regulations 1994
• SI 1996/1527; Landfill Tax Regulations 1996
• SI 1999/3232; Ionising Radiations Regulations 1999
• SI 2001/2954; Control of Pollution (Oil Storage) (England) Regulations 2001
• SI 2003/3242; Water Environment (Water Framework Directive) (England and Wales) Regulations 2003.
• SI 2005/894; Hazardous Waste (England and Wales) Regulations 2005
• SI 2006/1379; Radioactive Contaminated Land (Modification of Enactments) (England) Regulations 2006.
• SI 2006/1380; Contaminated Land (England) Regulations 2006.
• WSI 2006/2989; Contaminated Land (Wales) Regulations 2006
• SI 2007/871; Producer Responsibility Obligations (Packaging Waste) Regulations 2007
• SI 2007/3106; Persistent Organic Pollutants Regulations 2007.
• SI 2009/890; Waste Batteries and Accumulators Regulations 2009
• WSI 2009/995; Environmental Damage (Prevention and Remediation) (Wales) Regulations 2009
• SI 2009/1927; Major Accident Off-Site Emergency Plan (Management of Waste from Extractive Industries) (England and Wales) Regulations 2009.
• SI 2011/988; Waste (England and Wales) Regulations 2011.
• SI 2011/1824; Town and Country Planning (Environmental Impact Assessment) Regulations 2011.
• SI 2012/3038; Greenhouse Gas Emissions Trading Scheme Regulations 2012
• SI 2013/3113; Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment Regulations 2013
• SI 2015/483; Control of Major Accidents Hazards Regulations 2015
• SI 2015/596; Town and Country Planning (General Permitted Development) (England) Order 2015
• SI 2015/668; Nitrate Pollution Prevention Regulations 2015
• SI 2015/810; Environmental Damage (Prevention and Remediation) (England) Regulations 2015
• SI 2016/1350; Hazardous Waste (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 2015
• WSI 2016/58; Town and Country Planning (Environmental Impact Assessment) (Wales) Regulations 2016