The Offshore Combustion Installations (Pollution Prevention and Control) Regulations 2013

means Annex I of the MCPD;

means Annex II of the MCPD;

means Annex III of the MCPD;

means those techniques developed on a scale which allows implementation under economically and technically viable conditions, taking into consideration the costs and advantages, whether or not the techniques are used or produced in the United Kingdom, the offshore area or the relevant gas area, as long as they are reasonably accessible to the operator;

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

means the most effective and advanced stage in the development of activities and their methods of operation which indicates the practical suitability of particular techniques for providing the basis for emission limit values and other permit conditions designed to prevent and, where that is not practicable, to reduce emissions and the impact on the environment as a whole;

means any fixed or floating structure— (a) used for or in connection with an activity within section 17(2) of the Energy Act 2008 (“a section 17(2) activity”) but not including— (i) a structure the principal purpose of which is an activity within section 17(2)(c) of that Act;

means a relevant platform, or a complex of relevant platforms permanently inter-connected by bridges, equipped with offshore combustion plant;

means any technical apparatus in which fuels are oxidised in order to use the heat generated;

means an internal combustion engine which operates according to the Diesel cycle and uses compression ignition to burn fuel;

means particles, of any shape, structure or density, dispersed in the gas phase at the sampling point which may be collected by filtration after representative sampling of the gas to be analysed, and which remain on the filter after drying;

means a novel technique that, if commercially developed, could provide— (a) a higher general level of protection of the environment;

means— (a) in relation to a large combustion installation, the direct or indirect release of a pollutant listed in Schedule 2 from individual or diffuse sources in the installation into the air or water;

means— (a) in relation to a large combustion installation, the mass, concentration or level of an emission, which may not be exceeded during one or more periods of time;

means, except in regulation 38, a notice given by the Secretary of State under regulation 30;

means a plan which includes the following—

has the same meaning as it has in regulation 3(1) of the Offshore Oil and Gas Exploration, Production, Unloading and Storage (Environmental Impact Assessment) Regulations 2020.

means a medium combustion plant— (a) put into operation before 20 December 2018;

means any liquid or gaseous combustible material;

means an internal combustion engine which operates according to the Otto cycle and which uses spark ignition to burn fuel;

has the same meaning as it has in section 1(5) of the Energy Act 2008;

means any fixed or floating structure situated in the relevant gas area — (a) used for or in connection with an activity within section 2(3) of the Energy Act 2008 except where the principal purpose of the structure is an activity within section 2(3)(e) of that Act;

means any rotating machine which converts thermal energy into mechanical work, consisting mainly of a compressor (a thermal device in which fuel is oxidised in order to heat the working fluid) and a turbine (including both open cycle and combined cycle gas turbines, and gas turbines in cogeneration mode, all with or without supplementary firing);

means— (a) a relevant platform;

means an offshore combustion plant with a rated thermal input equal to or greater than 50 megawatts, but does not include gas turbines and gas engines;

means— (a) a relevant platform;

means, subject to regulation 2A, an offshore combustion plant with a rated thermal input which is equal to or greater than 1 megawatt and less than 50 megawatts, but does not include— (a) gas turbines, gas engines and diesel engines;

includes Iceland and Norway;

means nautical mile;

means a medium combustion plant other than an existing medium combustion plant;

means the areas comprising— (a) the sea adjacent to England from the low water mark to the landward baseline of the United Kingdom territorial sea;

means a medium combustion installation or a large combustion installation;

means a combustion plant which is permanently installed on a relevant platform or complex of relevant platforms permanently inter-connected by bridges;

means the time, expressed in hours, during which a medium combustion plant is operating and discharging emissions into the air, excluding start-up and shut-down periods;

means a person who operates or controls, in whole or part, an offshore combustion installation;

includes a person purporting to act as a partner.

means a written permission granted by the Secretary of State to operate an offshore combustion installation;

has the same meaning as it has in section 1 of the Petroleum Act 1998;

means any fixed or floating structure situated in the offshore area and used for, or in connection with, the production of petroleum but excluding— (a) a floating structure which is not being maintained on station during the course of production;

means the direct or indirect introduction, as a result of human activity, of a pollutant listed in Schedule 2 into a medium, which may— (a) be harmful to human health or the quality of the environment;

means, except in regulation 38, a notice given by the Secretary of State under regulation 31;

means—

means— (a) 20th December 2018, in relation to an offshore combustion installation equipped with new medium combustion plant;

means the areas comprising— (a) the sea areas described in paragraphs (a) and (b) of the definition of “the offshore area”;

means, as appropriate,— (a) a carbon dioxide storage or unloading platform;

has the same meaning as it has in Article 7(4) of the MCPD;

means a change in the nature or functioning, or an extension, of a large combustion installation which—

has the meaning given in regulation 17(1);

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

means Directive 2003/87/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council establishing a scheme for greenhouse gas emission allowance trading within the Community, as amended.

means Directive 2010/75/EU of the European Parliament and of the Council on industrial emissions (integrated pollution prevention and control)(Recast);

means in respect of an offshore combustion installation situated in—

means Directive 2015/2193/EU of the European Parliament and of the Council on the limitation of emissions of certain pollutants into the air from medium combustion plants;

means the areas described in—