To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if he will make an assessment of the potential merits of amending the emission limits for appliance exemptions for wood burning stoves after the implementation of the Ecodesign regulations on 1 January 2022.
Answered on
10 January 2022
Ecodesign regulations are now in force and the Clean Air Act 1993 requirements in smoke control areas will remain, as the two regulate different things. The Ecodesign regulations will raise emission and efficiency standards for stoves across the whole of the UK whilst allowing additional smoke emission assessment to remain in place for smoke control areas under the Clean Air Act.
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