Climate Change Agreements (Eligible Facilities) (Amendment) Regulations 2009 (S.I. No. 2458 of 2009)

S T A T U T O R Y I N S T R U M E N T S 2009 No. 2458 CLIMATE CHANGE LEVY The Climate Change Agreements (Eligible Facilities) (Amendment) Regulations 2009 Made - - - - 6th September 2009 Laid before the House of Commons 9th September 2009 Coming into force - - 1st October 2009 The Secretary of State makes the following Regulations in exercise of the powers conferred by paragraphs 50(3), 50(4) and 146(7) of Schedule 6 to the Finance Act 2000(a). Citation and commencement 1. These Regulations may be cited as the Climate Change Agreements (Eligible Facilities) (Amendment) Regulations 2009 and shall come into force on 1st October 2009. Amendment of the Climate Change Agreements (Eligible Facilities) Regulations 2006 2. The following paragraphs are added to the Schedule to the Climate Change Agreements (Eligible Facilities) Regulations 2006(b), after paragraph 12 of that Schedule— “13. At an installation or site where plastic materials, or plastic products (whether or not these are finished products), are produced by— (a) the application of heat and pressure to; or (b) a chemical reaction involving, plastics powder, granules, shredded waste or liquid: injection moulding, reaction injection moulding, compression moulding (including hot and cold press moulding), transfer moulding, structural foam moulding, direct screw transfer moulding, rotational moulding (including slush moulding), flexible foam moulding (including dual component processing), blow moulding, casting, expanded polystyrene moulding, expandable materials processing, mixing and compounding, calendering, powder coating (including dip moulding), sintering, thermoforming (including vacuum forming), pultrusion, filament winding, spread coating, hand lay-up and resin transfer moulding. 14. At an installation or site where refined salt for use in food products or supplements is prepared or processed from minerals. 15. At an installation or site, not being a launderette predominately offering self-service washes or predominately serving the domestic market, where textiles are laundered by washing with water, drying and smoothing save where such laundering is carried out in (a) 2000 c. 17. (b) S.I. 2006/60, as amended by S.I. 2006/1931; the Schedule to S.I. 2006/60 was substituted by S.I. 2006/1931. support of other activities carried out by the business (not being textile rental activities), whether or not such activities are carried out at the installation or site.”. Joan Ruddock Minister of State 6th September 2009 Department of Energy and Climate Change EXPLANATORY NOTE (This note is not part of the Regulations) These Regulations amend the Climate Change Agreements (Eligible Facilities) Regulations 2006 by adding three paragraphs to the Schedule to those Regulations. These paragraphs add three new descriptions of relevant processes and activities carried out at an installation or a site upon which there is an installation which are relevant for the purposes of determining whether such an installation is taken to be a facility that is eligible for inclusion in a climate change agreement. A full impact assessment has not been produced for this instrument as no significant impact on the private or voluntary sectors is foreseen. £4.00 E4852 9/2009 194852T 19585 Crown copyright 2009 Printed and published in the UK by The Stationery Office Limited under the authority and superintendence of Carol Tullo, Controller of Her Majesty’s Stationery Office and Queen’s Printer of Acts of Parliament.