The Offshore Combustion Installations (Prevention and Control of Pollution) Regulations 2001

means those techniques which can be implemented on platforms under economically and technically viable conditions, balancing the costs of their implementation against the benefits to the environment;

means, in relation to techniques, the most effective in achieving a high general level of protection of the environment as a whole;

means, having regard to the matters set out in Schedule 1 to these Regulations, the most effective and advanced stage in the development of combustion installations and their methods of operation which can be practically applied on platforms and which allows the setting of emission limit values to reduce or, where possible, eliminate emissions into, and effects on, the environment as a whole from the operation of such installations, and for the purposes of this definition— (a) “available techniques” means those techniques which can be implemented on platforms under economically and technically viable conditions, balancing the costs of their implementation against the benefits to the environment;

means any day except a Saturday, Sunday, Christmas Day, Good Friday or a day which is a Bank Holiday in any part of the United Kingdom under the Banking and Financial Dealings Act 1971;

means a change in the nature or functioning, or an extension, of a combustion installation which may have consequences for the environment;

means any technical apparatus in which fuels are oxidised to use the heat thus generated and includes gas turbines and diesel and petrol-fired engines and any equipment on a platform connected to such apparatus which could have an effect on emissions from that apparatus or could otherwise give rise to pollution but does not include any apparatus the main use of which is the disposal of gas by flaring or incineration;

means the same as in the Electronic Communications Act 2000;

means an environmental statement within the meaning of regulation 2(1) of the Offshore Petroleum and Pipe-lines (Assessment of Environmental Effects) Regulations 1998 or regulation 3(1) of the Offshore Petroleum and Pipe-lines (Assessment of Environmental Effects) Regulations 1999;

means any qualifying offshore combustion installation which— (a) was in operation on any platform before 30th October 1999;

means the air, water or, as the case may be, land or the seabed (including its subsoil);

means notice in writing or by such means of electronic communication as the Secretary of State may decide;

means any person who operates a qualifying offshore combustion installation;

includes any mineral oil or relative hydrocarbon and natural gas existing in its natural condition in strata, but does not include coal or bituminous shales or other stratified deposits from which oil can be extracted by destructive distillation;

means any fixed or floating structure situated in the relevant area which— (a) is used for the purposes of or in connection with the production of petroleum;

includes in particular the discharge or emission into the environment of those substances listed in Schedule 2 to these Regulations;

means the date after the day on which the period of five months commencing on the day on which these Regulations come into force expires, save that where an application for a permit is made under regulation 5 before that date it means— (a) the date on which the permit is granted whether in pursuance of the application or, on an appeal under regulation 17, of an order of the court;

means any combustion installation (other than one which has been rendered inoperable by being wholly or partially dismantled) which— (a) is permanently installed on a platform;

means the area (together with places above and below it) comprising— (a) those parts of the sea adjacent to England and Wales from the low water mark to the landward baseline of the United Kingdom territorial sea;

means in relation to a qualifying offshore combustion installation, an environmental statement which contains information regarding the effects on the environment of the operation of the installation in question;

means any waters which are controlled waters within the meaning of section 30A(1) of the Control of Pollution Act 1974;

means a change in operation which may have significant negative effects on people or the environment.

includes both the technology used and the way in which the installation is designed, built, maintained, operated and decommissioned;

means—

means the London, Edinburgh and Belfast Gazettes;