List of activities covered by PPC
| List of PPC Activities | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Section of Schedule 1 | Processes falling under IPPC or LAPPC For details of processes between IPPC and LAPPC, refer to Schedule 1 of your local PPC Regulations itself or contact your trade organisations or your environmental regulator. |
Scotland | Northern Ireland | |||
| IPPC | LAPPC | IPPC | LAPPC | |||
| A | B | A | B | C | ||
| 1 | Energy industry | |||||
| 1.1 | Combustion activities | A | B | A | - | C |
| 1.2 | Gasification, liquefaction and refining activities. (Scotland: Refining mineral oil and gas, operating coke ovens and coal gasification and liquefaction) | A | B | A | B | C |
| 2 | Production and processing of metals | |||||
| 2.1 | Ferrous metals | A | B | A | B | C |
| 2.2 | Non-ferrous metals | A | B | A | B | C |
| 2.3 | Surface treating metals and plastic materials | A | B | A | B | - |
| 3 | Minerals industry | |||||
| 3.1 | Production of cement and lime | A | B | A | B | C |
| 3.2 | Activities involving asbestos | A | B | A | B | - |
| 3.3 | Manufacture of glass and glass fibre | A | B | A | B | - |
| 3.4 | Production of other mineral fibres | A | - | A | - | - |
| 3.5 | Other mineral activities | A | B | A | B | C |
| 3.6 | Ceramics production | A | B | A | B | C |
| 4 | Chemical industry | |||||
| 4.1 | Organic chemicals | A | B | A | B | - |
| 4.2 | Inorganic chemicals | A | - | A | - | - |
| 4.3 | Chemical fertiliser production | A | - | A | - | - |
| 4.4 | Plant protection products and biocides (Scotland: biocide production) | A | - | A | - | - |
| 4.5 | Pharmaceutical production | A | - | A | - | - |
| 4.6 | Explosives production | A | - | A | - | - |
| 4.7 | Manufacturing activities involving ammonia | A | - | A | - | - |
| 4.8 | Storage of chemicals in bulk | - | B | - | B | - |
| 5 | Waste management | |||||
| 5.1 | Disposal of waste by incineration | A | B | A | B | C |
| 5.2 | Disposal of waste by landfill | A | - | A | - | - |
| 5.3 | Disposal or recovery of hazardous waste other than by incineration or landfill | A | - | A | - | - |
| 5.4 | Disposal or recovery of non-hazardous waste | A | - | A | - | - |
| 5.5 | Temporary and underground storage of waste | A | - | A | - | - |
| 6 | Other activities | |||||
| 6.1 | Paper, pulp and board manufacturing activities | A | - | A | - | - |
| 6.2 | Carbon activities | A | - | A | - | - |
| 6.3 | Tar and bitumen activities | A | B | A | B | - |
| 6.4 | Coating activities, printing and textile treatments | A | B | A | B | C |
| 6.5 | Manufacture of dyestuffs, printing ink and coating materials | A | B | - | B | C |
| 6.6 | Timber activities | A | B | A | - | C |
| 6.7 | Activities involving rubber | A | B | A | B | C |
| 6.8 | Treatment of animal and vegetable matter and food industries | A | B | A | B | C |
| 6.9 | Intensive farming | A | - | A | - | - |
| 6.10 | Carbon capture and storage | A | - | A | - | - |
| 6.11 | Waste water treatment | A | - | A | - | - |
| 7 | Solvent Emissions Directive (SED) activities* | - | B | - | - | C |
*SED activities include:
- heatset web offset printing
- publication rotogravure
- other rotogravure, flexography, rotary screen printing, laminating or varnishing units
- rotary screen printing on textiles or cardboard
- surface cleaning
- vehicle coating
- coil coating
- other coating activities, including metal, plastic, textile, fabric, film, paper, wood and leather coating
- winding wire coating
- dry cleaning
- wood impregnation
- footwear manufacture
- wood and plastic lamination
- adhesive coating
- manufacture of coating preparations, varnishes, inks and adhesives
- rubber conversion
- vegetable oil and animal fat extraction and vegetable oil refining activities
- manufacturing of pharmaceutical products.
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