S.L. 549.79 Art. 6Control of emissions.

(1) The competent authority shall ensure by specification in the conditions of the permit that sub-regulations (2) to (9) are complied with.

(2) All installations shall either comply with:

(a) the emission limit values in waste gases and the fugitive emission values, or the total emission limit values, and other requirements laid down in Schedules II and III; or

(b) the requirements of the reduction scheme specified in Schedule V, provided that an equivalent emission reduction is achieved compared to that achieved through the application of the emission limit values referred to in paragraph (a).

(3) (a) By way of derogation from sub-regulation (2)(a), where the operator demonstrates to the competent authority that for an individual installation the emission limit value for fugitive emissions is not technically and economically feasible, the competent authority may allow emissions to exceed that emission limit value provided that significant risks to human health or the environment are not to be expected and that the operator demonstrates to the competent authority that the best available techniques are being used.

(b) By way of derogation from sub-regulation (2), for coating activities covered by item 8 of Schedule II which cannot be carried out under contained conditions, the competent authority may allow the emissions of the installation not to comply with the requirements set out in that paragraph if the operator demonstrates to the competent authority that such compliance is not technically and economically feasible and that the best available techniques are being used.

(4) The emissions of either volatile organic compounds which are assigned or need to carry the hazard statements H340, H350, H350i, H360D or H360F or halogenated volatile organic compounds which are assigned or need to carry the hazard statements H341 or H351, shall be controlled under contained conditions as far as technically and economically feasible to safeguard public health and the environment and shall not exceed the relevant emission limit values set out in sub-regulations (7) and (8).

(5) The competent authority shall ensure that installations where two or more activities are carried out, each of which exceeds the thresholds in Schedule II, shall:

(a) as regards the substances specified in regulation 6(4), meet the requirements of that regulation for each activity individually;

(b) as regards all other substances, either:

(i) meet the requirements of sub-regulation (2) for each activity individually; or

(ii) have total emissions not exceeding those that would have resulted had sub-paragraph (i) been applied.

(6) All appropriate precautions shall be taken to minimize emissions of volatile organic compounds during start-up and shut-down operations.

(7) The competent authority shall ensure that for discharges of the volatile organic compounds referred to in regulation 5, where the mass flow of the sum of the compounds causing the labelling referred to in that regulation is greater than, or equal to 10 g/h, an emission limit value of 2 mg/Nm3 shall be complied with. The emission limit value refers to the mass sum of the individual compounds.

(8) The competent authority shall ensure that for discharges of halogenated volatile organic compounds which are assigned the hazard statements H341 or H351, where the mass flow of the sum of these compounds is greater than, or equal to, 100 g/h, an 3 emission limit value of 20 mg/Nm shall be complied with. The emission limit value refers to the mass sum of the individual compounds. The discharge of volatile organic compounds referred to in this sub-regulation and regulation 5 shall be controlled as emissions from an installation under contained conditions as far as technically and economically feasible to safeguard public health and the environment.

(9) The competent authority shall ensure that discharges of those volatile organic compounds which, after the entry into force of these regulations, are assigned or need to carry one of the risk phrases mentioned in regulation 5 and sub-regulation (8), shall have to comply with the emission limit values mentioned in sub-regulations (7) and (8) respectively, within the shortest possible time.