Regulations relating to pollution control (Pollution Regulations). This is an unofficial translation of the Norwegian regulation.

Appendix 1 Scope to Chapter 9. Limiting emission of volatile organic compounds (VOC) due to the use of organic solvents

This Appendix contains the activities covered by this chapter. When operated above the thresholds listed in Appendix II A, the activities mentioned in this Appendix fall within the scope of the chapter. In each case the activity includes the cleaning of the equipment but not the cleaning of the end product, unless specified otherwise. 

Adhesive coating
- Any activity in which an adhesive is applied to a surface, with the exception of adhesive coating and laminating associated with printing activities.

Coating activity
- Any activity in which a single or multiple application of a continuous film of coating is applied to:

• vehicles as listed below:        
• new cars, defined as vehicles of category M1 in Directive 70/156/EC1, and of category N1 in so far as they are coated at the same installation as M1 vehicles,        
• truck cabins, defined as the housing for the driver, and all integrated housing for the technical equipment, of vehicles of categories N2 or N3 in Directive 70/156/EC,        
• vans and trucks; defined as vehicles of categories N1, N2 or N3 in Directive 70/156/EC, but not including truck cabins,        
• buses; defined as vehicles of categories M2 or M3 in Directive 70/156/EC,

- trailers, defined in categories O1, O2, O3 or O4 in Directive 70/156/EC,
- metallic and plastic surfaces, including surfaces of airplanes, vessels, trains, etc.
- wooden surfaces,
- textile, fabric, film and paper surfaces,
- leather.

The activity does not include the coating of substrate with metals by electrophoretic and chemical spraying techniques. If the coating activity includes a step in which the same article is printed by whatever technique used, that printing step is considered part of the coating activity. However, printing activities operated as a separate activity are not included, but may be covered by this chapter if the special technique falls in under the scope of this chapter.

1 J L 42 of 23 February 1970, p. 1. The directive was last revised through Directive 97/27/EC (OJ L 233 of 25 August 1997, p. 1).

Coil coating
- Any activity where coiled steel, stainless steel, coated steel, copper alloys or aluminium strip is coated with either a film-forming or laminate coating in a continuous process.

Dry cleaning
- Any industrial or commercial activity using volatile organic compounds in an installation to clean garments, furnishing and similar consumer goods, with the exception of the manual removal of spots and stains in the textile and clothing industry.

Footwear manufacture
- Any activity of producing complete footwear or parts thereof.

Manufacturing of coating preparations, varnishes, inks and adhesives
- Manufacturing of the above-mentioned final products, and of intermediates where carried out at the same site, by mixing of pigments, resins and adhesive materials with organic solvent or other carrier, including dispersion and predispersion activities, viscosity and tint adjustments and operations for filling the final product into its container.

Manufacturing of pharmaceutical products
- Chemical synthesis, fermentation, extraction, formulation and finishing of pharmaceutical products and where carried out at the same site, the manufacture of intermediate products.

Printing
- Any reproduction activity of text and/or images in which, with the use of an image carrier, ink is transferred onto any type of surface. This activity includes associated varnishing, coating and laminating techniques. However, only the following sub-processes are covered by this chapter:

• Flexography: a printing activity using an image carrier of rubber or elastic photopolymers on which the printing areas are above the non-printing areas, using liquid inks which dry through evaporation.        
• Heatset web offset: an offset technique using an image carrier in which the printing and non-printing area are in the same plane. Web-fed means that the material to be printed is fed to the machine from a reel as distinct from separate sheets. The non-printing area is treated to attract water and thus reject ink. The printing area is treated to receive and transmit ink to the surface to be printed. Evaporation takes place in an oven where the hot air is used to heat the printed material.        
• Lamination associated with printing: adhering two or more flexible materials to produce laminates.        
• Publication rotogravure: a rotogravure printing activity used for printing paper for magazines, brochures, catalogues or similar products, using toluene-based ink.        
• Rotogravure: printing using a cylindrical image carrier in which the printing area is below the non-printing area, using liquid inks which dry through evaporation. The recesses are filled with ink and the surplus is cleaned off the non-printing area before the surface to be printed contacts the cylinder and lifts the ink from the recesses.        
• Rotary screen printing: a web-fed printing activity in which the ink is passed onto the surface to be printed by forcing it through a porous image carrier, in which the printing area is open and the non-printing area is sealed off, using liquid inks which dry only through evaporation. Web-fed means that the material to be printed is fed to the machine from a reel as distinct from separate sheets,        
• Varnishing: an activity by which a varnish or an adhesive coating for the purpose of later sealing the packaging material is applied to a flexible material.

Rubber conversion
- Any activity of mixing, milling, blending, calendering, extrusion and vulcanization of natural or synthetic rubber and any ancillary operations for converting natural or synthetic rubber into a finished product.

Surface cleaning
- Any activity except dry cleaning using organic solvents to remove contamination from the surface of material, including degreasing. A cleaning activity consisting of more than one step before or after any other activity shall be considered as one surface cleaning activity. This activity does not refer to the cleaning of the equipment but to the cleaning of the surface of products.

Vegetable oil and animal fat extraction and vegetable oil refining activities
- Any activity to extract vegetable oil from seeds and other vegetable matter, the processing of dry residues to produce animal feed, the purification of fats and vegetable oils derived from seeds, vegetable matter and/or animal matter.

Vehicle refinishing
- Any industrial or commercial coating activity and associated degreasing activities performing:

• the coating of road vehicles as defined in Directive 70/156/EC, or part of them, carried out as part of vehicle repair, conservation or decoration outside of manufacturing installations,        
• the original coating of road vehicles as defined in Directive 70/156/EC or part of them with refinishing-type materials, where this is carried out away from the original manufacturing line, or        
• the coating of trailers (including semi-trailers) (category O).

Winding wire coating
- Any coating activity of metallic conductors used for winding the coils in transformers and motors, etc.

Wood impregnation
- Any activity giving a loading of preservative in timber.

Wood and plastic lamination
- Any activity to adhere wood and/or plastic to produce laminated products.