Does your food and drink business require an EASR IA 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.
Food and drink industrial activities
These are industrial activities that have an impact on the environment and are listed in the EASR regulations.
These include:
- treatment and processing of animal or vegetable matter for animal feed
- animal raw materials (other than milk) at a plant with a finished product production capacity greater than 75 tonnes per day
- vegetable raw materials with a finished product production capacity greater than 300 tonnes per day or 600 tonnes per day where the installation operates for a period of no more than 90 consecutive days in any year.
- combined animal and vegetable materials (for example, soup production), examples of which are in the table below.
- treatment and processing of milk
- processing, storage or drying by heat of animal or vegetable matter
- ensiling of fish more than 10m³
- disposal or recycling of animal waste or carcases with a treatment capacity more than 10 tonnes per day
- operating a slaughterhouse with a carcass production capacity more than 50 tonnes per day
- intensive rearing of poultry, production pigs or sows
- vegetable and animal fat extraction and vegetable oil refining activities above 10 tonnes per year
Combined animal and vegetable quantities for permits
|
% of animal raw material by weight |
Number of tons per day of total production |
|
More than or equal to 10% |
75 |
|
8% |
120 |
|
6% |
165 |
|
4% |
210 |
|
2% |
255 |
|
0 |
300 |
|
Formula for calculation 300 – (22.5 x A) where A is % animal raw materials by weight |
|
What you must do
If your installation carries out listed activities, you will need a permit from SEPA and you will need to comply with the conditions of the permit.
Contact your environmental regulator
You should contact your environmental regulator or local council for further information about listed activities.
If you are unsure whether you are affected by EASR Industrial Activity permits, contact SEPA.
How to apply for a permit
Further information