European Union (Medium Combustion Plants) Regulations 2017
Source: Iris Oifigiúl 104 2017-12-29

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paragraphs: These Regulations may be cited as the European Union (Medium Combustion Plants) Regulations 2017.
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paragraphs: These Regulations shall come into effect on 19 December 2017.
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paragraphs: (1) A word or expression which is used in these Regulations and which is also used in the Directive has, unless the context otherwise requires, the same meaning in these regulations as it has in the Directive.
(2) In these Regulations, unless the context otherwise requires:
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paragraphs: (1) These Regulations apply to combustion plants with a rated thermal input equal to or greater than 1 MW and less than 50 MW irrespective of the fuel that they use.
(2) These Regulations shall also apply to a combination formed by new medium combustion plants pursuant to Regulation 10 including a combination where the total rated thermal input is equal to or greater than 50 MW, unless the combination constitutes an Industrial Emissions activity for the purposes of the Environmental Protection Agency Act 1992 as amended.
(3) These Regulations shall not apply to:
(i) any combustion plant which constitutes an Industrial Emissions activity for the purposes of the Environmental Protection Agency Act 1992 as amended;
(ii) combustion plants to which the European Communities (Control of Emissions of Gaseous and Particulate Pollutants from Non-Road Mobile Machinery) (Amendment) Regulations 2012 ( S.I. No. 407 of 2012 ) apply;
(iii) on-farm combustion plants with a total rated thermal input less than or equal to 5 MW, that exclusively use unprocessed poultry manure, as referred to in Article 9(a) of Regulation (EC) No 1069/2009 of the European Parliament and Council, as a fuel;
(iv) combustion plants in which the gaseous products of combustion are used for direct heating, drying or any other treatment of objects or materials;
(v) combustion plants in which the gaseous products of combustion are used for direct gas-fired heating used to heat indoor spaces for the purpose of improving workplace conditions;
(vi) post-combustion plants designed to purify the waste gases from industrial processes by combustion, and which are not operated as independent combustion plants;
(vii) any technical apparatus used in the propulsion of a vehicle, ship or aircraft;
(viii) gas turbines and gas and diesel engines, when used on offshore platforms;
(ix) facilities for the regeneration of catalytic cracking engines;
(x) facilities for the conversion of hydrogen sulphide into sulphur;
(xi) reactors used in the chemical industry;
(xii) coke battery furnaces;
(xiii) cowpers;
(xiv) crematoria;
(xv) combustion plants firing refinery fuels alone or with other fuels for the production of energy within mineral oil and gas refineries;
(xvi) recovery boilers within installations for the production of pulp.
(4) These Regulations shall not apply to research activities, development activities or testing activities relating to medium combustion plants.
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paragraphs: The Agency shall be the competent authority in the State for the purposes of the Directive and these Regulations.
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paragraphs: (1) The Agency shall cause to be established a register (the MCP register) for all medium combustion plants in the State falling within the scope of these Regulations;