Does your agriculture business require an EASR industrial activity permit?
Your business may require an EASR Industrial Activity (IA) permit from SEPA. For example, you will need a permit if your business has a production capacity above a certain level or if you use certain hazardous substances.
If your business is an installation, you will need an EASR IA permit from SEPA.
An installation is a stationary technical unit, such as a self-contained building, permanent structure or fixed plant, used for activities listed in the regulations.
Agriculture industrial activities
These are intensive farming activities that have an impact on the environment and are listed in the EASR regulations.
These activities include, the
- intensive rearing of poultry or pigs –
- with more than 40,000 places for poultry,
- with more than 2,000 places for production pigs (over 30 kg),
- with more than 750 places for sows.
- disposal or recycling of animal carcases or animal waste with a treatment capacity of more than 10 tonnes per day
- operating slaughterhouses with a carcass production capacity of more than 50 tonnes per day
- treatment and processing of animal or vegetable matter for food or animal feed
- processing, storage or drying by heat of any part of a dead animal or of vegetable matter
- treatment and processing of milk only, the quantity of milk received being greater than 200 tonnes per day (average value on an annual basis)
- tanning of hides and skins where the treatment capacity is more than 12 tonnes of finished products per day
What you must do
If your installation carries out one of the activities listed, you will need a permit from SEPA and you will need to comply with the conditions of the permit.
Contact your environmental regulator
If you are unsure whether you are affected by EASR Industrial Activity permits, contact SEPA.