The Environmental Damage (Prevention and Remediation) (England) (Amendment) Regulations 2019
2019 No. 1285
Environmental Protection, England
The Environmental Damage (Prevention and Remediation) (England) (Amendment) Regulations 2019
Made 26th September 2019
Laid before Parliament 27th September 2019
Coming into force in accordance with regulation 1
The Secretary of State makes these Regulations in exercise of the powers conferred by section 2(2) of the European Communities Act 19721.
The Secretary of State is a Minister designated for the purposes of section 2(2) of the European Communities Act 1972 in relation to the environment2.
Citation and commencement
1. These Regulations may be cited as the Environmental Damage (Prevention and Remediation) (England) (Amendment) Regulations 2019 and come into force 21 days after the day on which they are laid.
Amendment of the Environmental Damage (Prevention and Remediation) (England) Regulations 2015
2. After regulation 18 of the Environmental Damage (Prevention and Remediation) (England) Regulations 20153, insert—
“Reporting by enforcing authorities
18A.—(1) Where an enforcing authority has served a responsible operator with notification under regulation 18(1) after the coming into force of this regulation, the enforcing authority must, as soon as reasonably practicable, notify the Secretary of State of the relevant environmental damage.
(2) The notification provided to the Secretary of State under paragraph (1) must contain the following information—
(a)
(a) the type of environmental damage, according to the categorisations set out in regulation 4(1)(a) to (d),
(b)
(b) the date on which the environmental damage occurred or was discovered, and
(c)
(c) the activity which caused the environmental damage, according to the list set out in Schedule 2, except in cases where regulation 5(2) applies.
(3) The Secretary of State may require an enforcing authority to provide such other information in relation to the environmental damage as the Secretary of State may reasonably request.”.
Rebecca Pow
Parliamentary Under Secretary of State
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
26th September 2019
EXPLANATORY NOTE
(This note is not part of the Regulations)
These Regulations amend the Environmental Damage (Prevention and Remediation) (England) Regulations 2015 ( S.I. 2015/810). They relate to the implementation of Article 3 of...
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