46 tal-2017

L.N. 46 of 2017

ENVIRONMENT PROTECTION ACT

(CAP. 549)

Industrial Emissions (Framework) (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

(Framework) (Amendment) Regulations, 2017, and these regulations

shall be read and construed as one with the Industrial Emissions

(Framework) Regulations, hereinafter referred to as "the principal

regulations".

In regulation 5 of the principal regulations, immediately

before the definition "baseline report" there shall be added the

following new definition

" "authority" or "authorities" shall, for the purposes of

regulation 19 of Industrial Emissions (Integrated Pollution

Prevention and Control) Regulations, mean the nationally

designated regulator, authority, agency or government entity;".

Paragraph (c) of regulation 9(c) of the principal regulations

shall be substituted by the following

"(c) the competent authority shall require the operator to

take any appropriate complementary measures that the

competent authority considers necessary to limit the

environmental consequences and to prevent further possible

incidents or accidents.".

Paragraph (c) of sub-regulation (2) of regulation 10) of the

principal regulations shall be substituted by the following

"(c) the competent authority shall require the operator to

take any appropriate complementary measures that the

competent authority considers necessary to restore

compliance:".

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