The Large Combustion Plant Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2003

Notice is hereby given that in exercise of the power conferred on it by section 2(2) of the European Communities Act 1972, the Department of the Environment has made the Large Combustion Plant Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2003. The Regulations partly implement in Northern Ireland the provisions of Council Directive 2001/80/EC on the limitation of emissions of certain pollutants into the air from large combustion plants. The remaining provisions of the Directive have been implemented, in so far as they apply to processes authorised under the Industrial Pollution Control (Northern Ireland) Order 1997, by means of Directions issued to the chief inspector appointed under Article 16 of that Order or under regulation 8 of the Pollution Prevention and Control Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2003.

The Directions are entitled the Industrial Pollution Control (Combustion Plants) (No. 1) Direction (Northern Ireland) 2003 and the Pollution Prevention and Control (Combustion Plants) (No. 1) Direction (Northern Ireland) 2003.

Copies of the Regulations may be purchased from the Stationery Office Bookshop, 16 Arthur Street, Belfast BT1 4GD. ISBN 0 337 95084 9, £1.75. Copies of the Directions are available from the address below, or on the Department’s Environment and Heritage Service website www.ehsni.gov.uk

Department of the Environment, Environmental Policy Division, 20-24 Donegall Street, Belfast BT1 2GP.