UK Statutory Instrument 2000 United Kingdom

UKSI 2000/1043

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Enforced by
Environment Agency
Applies to
United Kingdom
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Sections and provisions

18 classified provisions from this legislation.

9 Duties 1 Offences and penalties 3 Powers 2 Definitions

Duties 9

  • s.3 Prohibition on holding without registration person
  • s.4 Prohibition on holding irrespective of registration such direction
  • s.5 Labelling of contaminated equipment
  • s.6 Registration
  • s.8 Appeals appropriate authority
  • s.9 Inventories of contaminated equipment
  • s.10 Information for inventories
  • s.11 Information for the public form but
  • s.12 Payment of charges

Offences and penalties 1

  • s.13 Offences and penalties

Powers 3

  • s.7 Cancellation of registration or particulars
  • Civil sanctions Civil sanctions
  • Civil sanctions, Wales Civil sanctions, Wales

Definitions 2

  • s.2 Interpretation and notices the 1995 Act" means the Environment Act 1995 ; - “the Agency" means the Environment Agency established by section 1 of the 1995 Act; - “applicant" means a person who applies for registration under regulation 6; - “the appropriate authority contaminated equipment" means any equipment (including any transformer, capacitor or receptacle containing residual stocks) which— contains PCBs; orhaving contained PCBs, has not been decontaminated, other than one which contains a total volume of PCBs not exceeding 5dm3; and for the purposes of this definition— the PCB volume of a power capacitor shall be measured by reference to all of the separate elements of a combined set, andany thing of a type which may contain PCBs shall be treated as containing PCBs unless it is reasonable to assume the contrary; - “decontamination" means all operations which enable equipment, objects, materials or fluids contaminated by PCBs to be reused, recycled or disposed of under safe conditions, and which may include replacement, meaning all operations in which PCBs are replaced by suitable fluids not containing PCBs; - “Directive 2008/98/EC the Directive" means Council Directive 96/59/EC on the disposal of polychlorinated biphenyls and polychlorinated terphenyls (PCB/PCT) ; - “disposal" means any of the operations D8, D9, D10, D12 (only in safe, deep, underground storage in dry rock formations and only for equipment containing PCBs or used PCBs which cannot be decontaminated) and D15 provided for in Annex I of Directive 2008/98/EC on waste and set out in Schedule 1 to these Regulations; - “holder" means the person who is in possession of PCBs, including any used PCBs, or of any equipment; - “the NRBW
  • Schedule 1 DISPOSAL OPERATIONS D8, D9, D10, D12 AND D15 AS SET OUT IN Annex I of Directive 2008/98/ EC on waste B