European Union (Waste Incineration Plants and Waste Co-Incineration Plants) Regulations 2013 (S.I. No. 148/2013).

These Regulations transpose Chapter IV of Directive 2010/75/EU of the European Parliament and the Council of 24 November, 2010 on industrial emissions (integrated pollution prevention and control). The Regulations apply to existing and new Waste incineration Plants and Waste Co-incineration plants. These Regulations apply to waste incineration plants and waste co-incineration plants which incinerate or co-incinerate solid or liquid waste. (2) For the purposes of these Regulations, waste incineration plants and waste co-incineration plants shall include all incineration lines or co-incineration lines, waste reception, storage, on site pretreatment facilities, waste-, fuel- and air-supply systems, boilers, facilities for the treatment of waste gases, on-site facilities for treatment or storage of residues and waste water, stacks, devices and systems for controlling incineration or co-incineration operations, recording and monitoring incineration or co-incineration conditions. (3) If processes other than oxidation, such as pyrolysis, gasification or plasma process, are applied for the thermal treatment of waste, the waste incineration plant or waste co-incineration plant shall include both the thermal treatment process and the subsequent incineration process. (4) If waste co-incineration takes place in such a way that the main purpose of the plant is not the generation of energy or production of material products but rather the thermal treatment of waste, the plant shall be regarded as a waste incineration plant for the purposes of these Regulations. (5) These Regulations shall not apply to the following plants: (a) plants treating only the following wastes: (i) waste listed as follows: (I) vegetable waste from agriculture and forestry; (II) vegetable waste from the food processing industry, if the heat generated is recovered; (III) fibrous vegetable waste from virgin pulp production and from production of paper from pulp, if it is co-incinerated at the place of production and the heat generated is recovered; (IV) cork waste; (V) wood waste with the exception of wood waste which may contain halogenated organic compounds or heavy metals as a result of treatment with wood preservatives or coating and which includes, in particular, such wood waste originating from construction and demolition waste; (ii) radioactive waste; (iii) animal carcasses as regulated by Regulation (EC) No 1774/2002 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 3 October 2002 laying down health rules concerning animal by-products not intended for human consumption3 ; (iv) waste resulting from the exploration for, and the exploitation of, oil and gas resources from off-shore installations and incinerated on board the installations; (b) experimental plants used for research, development and testing in order to improve the incineration process and which treat less than 50 tonnes of waste per year. (c) gasification or pyrolysis plants, if the gases resulting from this thermal treatment of waste are purified to such an extent that they are no longer a waste prior to their incineration and they can cause emissions no higher than those resulting from the burning of natural gas.
These Regulations require the designation of Competent Authority; the Environmental Protection Agency shall be the competent authority for the purposes of Chapter IV of the Directive and for the purposes of these Regulations. The AGency will be responsible for matters related to licences, accidents, instances of non-compliance, requirements related to emissions of Greenhouse Gases. Other provisions of the Regulations concern conditions attached to licences or waste licences for waste incineration plants or waste co-incineration plants; control of emissions (limits, monitoring, and compliance); operating conditions; residues; public information; delivery of waste;