Does your machinery or electrical equipment 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.
Machinery or electrical equipment business industrial activities
These are industrial activities that have an impact on the environment and are listed in the EASR regulations.
These activities include:
- Combustion or burning of fuels in generators or installations, including the operation of medium combustion plants.
- Operation of one or more electricity generators with a combined thermal input of more than 1 MW.
- Operating a medium combustion plant with a rated thermal input equal to or more than 1 MW and less than 50 MW.
- Combustion of fuels in installations with a total rated thermal input of 50 MW or more.
- Thermal treatment including gasification, liquefaction, and refining of fuels like oil, gas, coal, or coke.
- Production of pig iron or steel, including metal processing, hot rolling mills, and foundries.
- Casting ferrous metal at a foundry with a production capacity of more than 20 tonnes per day.
- Galvanising zinc and zinc alloys, die-casting zinc, aluminium, or magnesium, or their alloys.
- Melting, refining, and casting foundry with a capacity exceeding 5 tonnes.
- Surface treatment of substances using organic solvents
- Treating in vats – surface treatment of metals or plastic materials using an electrolytic or chemical process where the combined volume of the treatment vats is more than 30m3
- Non-ferrous metal processing via metallurgical, chemical, electrolytic processes or via melting
- Coating activities using solvents
- Rubber conversion above 15 tonnes per year
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
If you are unsure whether you are affected by EASR Industrial Activity permits, contact SEPA.
How to apply for a permit
Further information