MEPA has amended regulations on the 'secondary' storage of LPG gas.
“MEPA has amended the legal notice which regulates minor developments to include the permitted development of secondary storage of LPG tanks,” the Authority said in a statement.
“Secondary storages of LPG are used throughout the islands by commercial entities mainly for cooking purposes, industrial entities for the firing of furnaces and other processes requiring heat input and by the domestic sector generally for heating and cooking purposes.”
MEPA said the regulations had been amended after the adoption of another legal notice establishing the Malta Resources Authority responsible to certify such storages and issue licences for their operation.
Earlier this month, during proceedings against a man who invested €12,000 on a gas tank beneath his front garden to fuel a heating system, a Mepa enforcement officer admitted that the authority did not yet have a policy on gas tanks.