Scottish Government Enacts Powers to Transpose Industrial Emissions Directive

Posted on: December 8, 2011

New legislation: The Pollution Prevention and Control (Designation of Industrial Emissions Directive) (Scotland) Order 2011
Who does this affect: Scotland
When does this change take place: 1st January 2012

This Order designates the Industrial Emissions Directive (European Directive 2010/75/EU on industrial emissions (integrated pollution prevention and control) (Recast)) as a relevant directive for the purposes of paragraph 20 of Schedule 1 to the Pollution Prevention and Control Act 1999. This allows the Scottish Government to transpose the Directive into Scottish Law.

The Industrial Emissions Directive will replace the current directives on pollution prevention, combustion plants, waste incineration, titanium dioxide and solvent emissions with a single recast directive.

The full text of the Order can be found here.

Published: 01 December 2011