Environmental guidance for your business in Northern Ireland & Scotland
If your business repaints or resprays road vehicles, or vehicle parts, and uses one tonne or more of organic solvent in Northern Ireland or two tonnes or more in Scotland, in any 12-month period you must have a Pollution Prevention and Control (PPC) permit from your enviornmental regulator.
If you have a permit you must comply with its conditions, which may require you to reduce or control your solvent emissions.
Contact your environmental regulator
You can find technical guidance, a model permit application and model permit in Process Guidance Note 6/34b: 'Respraying of Road Vehicles'. Even if you don't require aPPC permit, this guidance note can help prevent you from being prosecuted for causing pollution.
Defra: Process Guidance Note 6/34b (06) - Respraying of road vehicles (Adobe PDF - 519KB)
If you manufacture, import, distribute or sell vehicle refinishing products you must comply with controls on the amount of solvents (VOCs) that these products contain.
Solvent limits in vehicle refinishing products
If your refinishing products contain substances such as organic solvents and isocyanates, you must dispose of the products and their containers as hazardous/special waste.
Noise, odour and other nuisances
Refrigerated transport and equipment
Travel plans and green transport for offices
Vehicle air-conditioning systems
Vehicle cleaning (including wheel washing)
Vehicle movements and deliveries at construction sites
Vehicle refinishing products
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