2 tal-2008 - Regolamenti tal-2008 li jemendaw ir-Regolamenti dwar il-Limitazzjonijiet ta’ Ħruġ fl-Arja ta’ xi Sustanzi li Jniġġsu minn Impjanti Kbar tal-Kombustjoni

L.N. 2 of 2008

ENVIRONMENT PROTECTION ACT

(CAP. 435)

Limitations of Emissions of Certain Pollutants into the Air from

Large Combustion Plants (Amendment) Regulations, 2008

BY virtue of the powers conferred by articles 9 and 10 of the

Environment Protection Act, the Minister for Rural Affairs and the

Environment has made the following regulations>–

The title of these regulations is the Limitations of Emissions

of Certain Pollutants into the Air from Large Combustion Plants

(Amendment) Regulations, 2008 and they shall be read and construed

as one with the Limitations of Emissions of Certain Pollutants into the

Air from Large Combustion Plants Regulations, 2002 hereinafter

referred to as “the principal regulations.”

Regulation 3 of the principal regulations shall be amended as

(a) for subregulation (2) thereof, there shall be substituted

the following>

“(2) Plants powered by diesel, petrol and gas engines

irrespective of the fuel used, shall not be covered by these

regulations.”< and

(b) immediately after subregulation (2) thereof, there shall

be added the following new subregulation>

“(3) Where two or more separate new plants are

installed in such a way that, taking technical and economic

factors into account, their waste gases could, in the judgement

of the competent authorities, be discharged through a common

stack, the combination formed by such plants shall be regarded

as a single unit.”.

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