Air Pollution Act, 1987 (Emission Limit Values for Combustion Plant) Regulations, 1996 (S.I. No. 264 of 1996).

These Regulations implement provisions of Directive 94/66/EC in Ireland by specifying, in the Schedules, emission limits for emission of sulphur dioxide from large combustion plant, with rated thermal input between 50MW and 100MW, using solid fuels. The Regulations also re-state the emission limit values for large combustion plant with rated thermal input greater than 100MW, specified in the Air Pollution Act, 1987 (Combustion Plant) Regulations, 1992 which are now repealed by these Regulations. Where two or more new combustion plants are installed in such a way that, taking technical and economic factors into account, their waste gases could be discharged through a common stack, the combination formed by such plants shall be regarded as a single plant for the purposes of these Regulations.