S.L. 549.56 ст. 4Conditions for ‘existing’ plants permits.

(1) Permits for ‘existing’ plants shall include conditions relating to compliance with the emission limit values which shall not be higher than those in:

(a) Schedule I for plants firing solid fuels;

(b) Schedule III for plants firing liquid fuels; and

(c) Schedule V for plants firing gaseous fuels.

(2) By way of derogation from sub-regulation (1), ‘existing’ combustion plants may be exempted from compliance with the above mentioned requirements if the operator has submitted by 30 June 2004 a written declaration to the competent authority stating that the plants in question will not be operated for more than 20000 operational hours starting on the 1 January 2008 and ending no later than 31 December 2015.

(3) The operators of ‘existing’ combustion plants covered by the exemption in sub-regulation (2) are required to submit to the competent authority a record of the used and unused time allowed for the plants’ operational life. In calculating the operational time used by the ‘existing’ combustion plant the operator shall consider the combustion plant to be operating when any part of it operates, irrespective of the load factor.