45 tal-2017
Statutory Text (5 Articles)
L.N. 45 of 2017
ENVIRONMENT PROTECTION ACT
(CAP. 549)
Industrial Emissions (Integrated Pollution Prevention
and Control) (Amendment) Regulations, 2017
BY VIRTUE of the powers conferred by article 54 of the
Environment Protection Act, the Minister for Sustainable
Development, the Environment and Climate Change, in consultation
with the Environment and Resources Authority, has made the
following regulations:-
The title of these regulations is the Industrial Emissions Citation.
(Integrated Pollution Prevention and Control) (Amendment)
Regulations, 2017, and these regulations shall be read and construed
as one with the Industrial Emissions (Integrated Pollution Prevention S.L. 549.77
and Control) Regulations, hereinafter referred to as "the principal
regulations".
In sub-regulation (4) of regulation 8 of the principal Amends
regulations, for the two paragraphs starting with the words "The regulation
the principal
competent authority shall document in an annex" to the words "to the regulations.
Industrial Emissions (Framework) Regulations, where applicable."
there shall be substituted the following
"The competent authority shall document in an annex to
the permit conditions the reasons for the application of
paragraph (a) including the result of the assessment and the
justification for the conditions imposed.
The emission limit values set in accordance with paragraph
(a) shall, however, not exceed the emission limit values set out
in the Schedule to the Industrial Emissions (Framework)
Regulations, where applicable.".
Sub-regulation (2) of regulation 19 of the principal Amends
regulation 19 of
regulations shall be substituted by the following
the principal
regulations.
"(2) The following shall be considered as also having
competence with regard to the application of sub-regulation (1)
(a) the authority responsible for Energy and
Water Services in relation to all activities in Schedule 1
involving the activities regulated by legislation listed in the
First Schedule of the Regulator for Energy and Water
Services Act;
(b) the authority responsible for Agriculture,
Veterinary services and Fisheries in relation to activities
4, 6.5 and 6.6 in Schedule 1, and any activity for the
disposal or recovery of animal by-products;
(c) the authority responsible for Competition and
Consumer Affairs in relation to activities 1.2, 1.3, 2.1, 2.5,
2.6, 3.1, 3.2, 3.3, 3.4, 4, 6.7 and 6.10 in Schedule 1;
(d) the authority responsible for Civil Protection
in relation to all activities in Schedule 1;
(e) the authority responsible for Environmental
Health in relation to all activities in Schedule 1;
(f) the authority responsible for Transport in
Malta in relation to activities involving release of trade
effluent into ports;
(g) the authority responsible for Occupational
Health and Safety in relation to activities concerning
occupational health and safety and activities covered by
the Control of Major Accident Hazards Regulations;
(h) the authority responsible for all activities in
Schedule 1 involving minerals and other activities
regulated by legislation listed in the Second Schedule of
the Regulator for Energy and Water Services Act;
(i) the authority responsible for the protection of
groundwater in relation to activities involving groundwater
use and aquifer recharge.".
4. Sub-paragraph (a) of paragraph 1 of Schedule 4 to the
principal regulations shall be substituted by the following
"(a) the application for a permit or, as the case
may be, the proposal for the updating of a permit or of
permit conditions in accordance with regulation 15,
including the description of the elements listed in
regulation 5(1);".
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