Does your printing and publishing 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.
Printing and publishing industrial activities
These are industrial activities that have an impact on the environment and are listed in the EASR regulations.
These activities include:
- surface treatment of substances, objects or products using organic solvents, in particular for dressing, printing, coating, degreasing, waterproofing, sizing, painting, cleaning, or impregnating, with an organic solvent consumption capacity of more than 150 kg per hour or more than 200 tonnes per year
- manufacture or formulation of any coating material (such as printing ink) likely to involve the use of 100 tonnes or more of organic solvents per year
- heatset web offset printing above 15 tonnes/year
- publication rotogravure above 25 tonnes per year
- other rotogravure, flexography, rotary screen printing, laminating or varnishing greater than 15 tonnes per year
- rotary screen printing on textiles or cardboard above 30 tonnes per year
- other coating activities, including metal, plastic, textiles (except rotary screen printing on textiles), fabric, film, and paper coating above 5 tonnes per year
- manufacture of coating mixtures, varnishes, inks and adhesives above 100 tonnes per year
- all other coating activities likely to involve the use per year at any location of:
- 20 tonnes or more of any printing ink, paint or other coating material which is applied in solid form (other than in respect of an activity described in paragraph 2.1(c) of part 4 of Schedule 19)
- 25 tonnes or more of organic solvents in respect of any cold set web offset printing activity or any sheet fed offset litho printing activity
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