Amendment to Waste Management Licensing Exemptions for certain Agricultural Wastes
The Waste Management (Miscellaneous Provisions) (England and Wales) Regulations 2007 (SI 2007 No. 1156) were laid before Parliament on 4th April and entered into force on 2nd May.
These Regulations amend certain exemptions under the Waste Management Licensing Regulations 1994 (”the 1994 Regulations”) that apply to agricultural activities. These include:
1. Amendment to paragraph 47(1)(g) of Schedule 3 to the 1994 Regulations such that under this exemption an application of liquid milk to land may only be made once a month.
2. Regulation 4 amends paragraph 48 of Schedule 3 to the 1994 Regulations so that under this exemption any application of plant tissue to land must be made in accordance with any conditions that may have been imposed by a notice served under either the Plant Health (England) Order 2005 or the Plant Health (Wales) Order 2006.
3. Regulation 5 inserts new paragraphs into Schedule 3 to the 1994 Regulations to provide for exemptions from waste management licensing for activities involving the disposal of pesticide solution into a lined biobed and treatment of the land with the biobed itself, the treatment of land with ash from the incineration of pig or poultry carcases and the treatment of land with dredging spoil from farm ditches.
4. The amending Regulations also remove an exemption for the emission of dark smoke caused by the open burning of containers lightly contaminated with pesticides, previously permissible under the Clean Air (Emission of Dark Smoke) (Exemption) Regulations 1969.
The full text of the Regulations is available from: http://www.opsi.gov.uk/si/si2007/20071156.htm
Source: www.opsi.gov.uk (accessed 03/05/07)
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