S.L. 549.52 Art. 2Definitions and scope. Cap. 321. Cap. 451.

(1) For the purpose of these regulations and unless the context otherwise requires: "approved auditor" means an auditor which has been approved by the authority competent in approving such persons, who holds a warrant to practice the profession of an inġinier under the Inġiniera Act or the equivalent professional qualification as provided under the Mutual Recognition of Qualifications Act, who has suitable training, sufficient knowledge and experience and capability as approved by the competent authorities to certify that terminals, service stations and road tankers are compliant with the standards set by the relevant technical Schedules of these regulations, and who is duly registered with the joint competent authorities; "the competent authority" means the Environment and Resources Authority; "existing service stations" means service stations granted development planning consent before the 01 January 2012; "gantry" means any structure at a terminal at which petrol can be loaded on to a single road tanker at any one time; "intermediate storage of vapours" means the intermediate storage of vapours in a fixed roof tank at a terminal for later transfer to and recovery at another terminal. The transfer of vapours from one storage installation to another at a terminal shall not be considered as intermediate storage of vapour within the meaning of these regulations; "loading installation" means any facility at a terminal at which petrol can be loaded onto mobile containers. Loading installations for road tankers shall comprise one or more ‘gantries’;

"major refurbishment" means a significant alteration or renewal of the station infrastructure, particularly tanks and pipes; "mobile container" means any tank transported by road, rail or waterways used for the transfer of petrol from one terminal to another or from terminal to a service station; "new service stations" means service stations granted PETROL FROM TERMINALS TO SERVICE STATIONS)

development planning consent after the 01 January 2012; "petrol" means any petroleum derivative, with or without additives, having a Reid Vapour Pressure (RVP) of 27.6 kilopascals or more, which is intended for use as a fuel for motor vehicles with the exception of liquefied petroleum gas (LPG);

"petrol vapour capture efficiency" means the amount of petrol vapour captured by the Stage II petrol vapour recovery system compared to the amount of petrol vapour that would otherwise be emitted to the atmosphere in the absence of such a system and expressed as a percentage; "Stage II petrol vapour recovery system" means equipment aimed at recovering the petrol vapour displaced from the fuel tank of a motor vehicle during refilling at a service station and which transfers petrol to a storage tank at the service or back to the petrol dispenser for resale; "storage installation" means any stationary tank at a terminal used for the storage of petrol; "target reference value" means the guideline given for the overall assessment of the adequacy of technical measures in the Schedules and is not a limit value against which the performance of individual installations, terminals and service stations will be measured; "terminal" means any facility which is used for the storage and loading of petrol onto road tankers, rail tankers, or vessels, including all storage installations on the site of the facility; "throughput" means the largest total annual quantity of petrol loaded from a storage installation at a terminal or from a mobile containers into a service station during the three preceding years; "vapour recovery unit" means equipment for the recovery of petrol from vapours including any buffer systems at a terminal; "vapour" means any gaseous compound which evaporates from petrol; "vapour/petrol ratio" means the ratio between the volume at atmospheric pressure of petrol vapour passing through the Stage II petrol vapour recovery system and the volume of petrol dispensed; "vessel" means an inland waterway vessel as defined in Chapter 1 of Directive of the European Parliament and of the Council 2006/ 87/EC of the 12th December 2006 laying down technical requirements for inland waterway vessels and repealing Council Directive 82/714/EEC.

(2) These regulations transpose European Parliament and Council Directive 94/63/EC of 20 December 1994 on the control of volatile organic compound (VOC) emissions resulting from the storage of petrol and its distribution from terminals to service stations, Directive 2009/126/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of the 21 October 2009 on Stage II petrol vapour recovery during refuelling of motor vehicles and service stations and Commission Directive 2014/99/EU of 21 October 2014 PETROL FROM TERMINALS TO SERVICE STATIONS) [

amending, for the purposes of its adaptation to technical progress, Directive 2009/126/EC on Stage II petrol vapour recovery during refuelling of motor vehicles and service stations.

(3) These regulations apply to the operations, installations, vehicles and vessels used for storage, loading and transport of petrol from one terminal to another or from a terminal to a service station and to the dispensing of petrol to motor vehicle fuel tanks at service station.