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Above-ground oil storage in England and Wales: scope, exemptions, secondary containment requirements and enforcement across Oil Storage Regulations, EPR, WRA, Environmental Damage, DSEAR and COMAH

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The Control of Pollution (Oil Storage) (England) Regulations 2001, SI 2001/2954, and the Water Resources (Control of Pollution) (Oil Storage) (Wales) Regulations 2016, SI 2016/359—together the Oil Storage Regulations—are intended to prevent contamination of land and water.

Threshold for storage capacity

The Oil Storage Regulations apply to organisations and individuals with custody or control of an oil storage container at business premises and public sector buildings where the capacity is 201 litres or more. The English Regulations also capture domestic premises or barges in England that hold any oil storage containers of 3,501 litres or above.

Oil storage containers

The Oil Storage Regulations generally cover the storage of oil, subject to exemptions that differ between England and Wales. See table below — Exempt oil storage containers. Oil Storage Regulations Guidance issued by the Environment Agency (EA) and the Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs (Defra), applying in England and Wales, provides examples of storage containers within scope:

  • oil drums and fixed tanks
  • fixed tanks
  • intermediate bulk containers (IBCs)
  • mobile bowsers (containers designed
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