2012 No. 630

Environmental Protection, England And Wales

The Environmental Permitting (England and Wales) (Amendment) Regulations 2012

Made

Laid before Parliament

Laid before the National Assembly for Wales

Coming into force

F1These Regulations are made in exercise of the powers conferred by sections 2 and 7(9) of, and Schedule 1 to, the Pollution Prevention and Control Act 19991.

The Secretary of State, in relation to England, and the Welsh Ministers, in relation to Wales, have in accordance with section 2(4) of the Pollution Prevention and Control Act 1999 consulted2—

a

the Environment Agency;

b

such bodies or persons appearing to them to be representative of the interests of local government, industry, agriculture and small businesses as they consider appropriate; and

c

such other bodies or persons as they consider appropriate.

The Secretary of State, in relation to England, and the Welsh Ministers, in relation to Wales, make these Regulations.

Annotations:
Amendments (Textual)

PART 1General

Citation and commencementI11

These Regulations—

a

may be cited as the Environmental Permitting (England and Wales) (Amendment) Regulations 2012; and

b

come into force on 6th April 2012.

Annotations:
Commencement Information
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Reg. 1 in force at 6.4.2012, see reg. 1(b)

InterpretationI62

In these Regulations, “the principal Regulations” means the Environmental Permitting (England and Wales) Regulations 20103.

Annotations:
Commencement Information
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Reg. 2 in force at 6.4.2012, see reg. 1(b)

PART 2Amendments to the principal Regulations

Regulation 2 (interpretation: general)I23

In regulation 2(1) of the principal Regulations, in the definition of “proposed transferee”, after “operator” insert “or a regulator”.

Annotations:
Commencement Information
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Reg. 3 in force at 6.4.2012, see reg. 1(b)

Regulation 17 (single site permits etc)F14

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Regulation 19 (subsistence of an environmental permit)F15

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Regulation 20 (variation of an environmental permit)F16

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Regulation 21 (transfer of an environmental permit)F17

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Regulation 60 (power to require the provision of information)F18

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New Chapter 1A in Part 7 (death of sole operator)F19

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Regulation 109 (repeals)F110

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Regulation 110 (review)F111

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Part 2 of Schedule 1 (activities)F112

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Part 1 of Schedule 3 (exempt facilities: exempt waste operations)F113

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Schedule 5 (environmental permits)F114

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Schedule 10 (landfill)F115

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Schedule 23 (radioactive substances activities)F116

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PART 3Consequential and other amendments

Site Waste Management Plans Regulations 2008F117

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The Environmental Damage (Prevention and Remediation) Regulations 2009F118

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The Environmental Damage (Prevention and Remediation) (Wales) Regulations 2009I319

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The Environmental Damage (Prevention and Remediation) (Wales) Regulations 200911 are amended as follows.

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In regulation 10—

a

in the Welsh text (the title to which becomes “Yr awdurdodau gorfodi o dan Rheoliadau Trwyddedu Amgylcheddol (Cymru a Lloegr) 2010”), in paragraph (1)—

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for “weithfa, gweithred wastraff neu offer symudol” substitute “weithred”, and

ii

for “2007” substitute “2010”;

b

in the English text (the title to which becomes “Enforcing authorities under the Environmental Permitting (England and Wales) Regulations 2010”), in paragraph (1)—

i

for “an installation, waste operation or mobile plant”, substitute “an activity”, and

ii

for “2007” substitute “2010”.

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Annotations:
Commencement Information
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Reg. 19 in force at 6.4.2012, see reg. 1(b)

Infrastructure Planning (Miscellaneous Prescribed Provisions) Regulations 2010I520

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The Infrastructure Planning (Miscellaneous Prescribed Provisions) Regulations 201012 are amended as follows.

2

In Part 1 of the Schedule (England and Wales)—

a

omit paragraphs 7, 8 and 39;

b

for paragraph 26 substitute—

26

An environmental permit under the Environmental Permitting (England and Wales) Regulations 2010, or an exemption from the requirement for such a permit.

c

in paragraph 28, for “88, 89(4), 90(1), 90(2), 109 or 164, Schedule 10” substitute “109 or 164”.

3

In Part 2 of the Schedule (Wales), for paragraph 23 substitute—

23

An environmental permit under the Environmental Permitting (England and Wales) Regulations 2010, where a local authority is the regulator.

Annotations:
Commencement Information
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Reg. 20 in force at 6.4.2012, see reg. 1(b)

Mercury Export and Data (Enforcement) Regulations 2010I421

In regulation 5(4) of the Mercury Export and Data (Enforcement) Regulations 2010 (offences in respect of the EU Regulation)13, for sub-paragraph (a) substitute—

a

in England and Wales, an offence under regulation 38(2) or (4)(b), (c) or (d) of the Environmental Permitting (England and Wales) Regulations 2010;

Annotations:
Commencement Information
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Reg. 21 in force at 6.4.2012, see reg. 1(b)

Conservation of Habitats and Species Regulations 2010F122

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Taylor of HolbeachParliamentary Under Secretary of StateDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
John GriffithsMinister for Environment and Sustainable Developmentone of the Welsh Ministers
EXPLANATORY NOTE

(This note is not part of the Regulations)

These Regulations amend the Environmental Permitting (England and Wales) Regulations 2010 (“the principal Regulations”)—

a

to clarify the position relating to single site permits for certain radioactive substances activities (regulation 4);

b

to change the procedure for transferring environmental permits in certain situations (regulation 7);

c

to provide for the vesting of an environmental permit in the personal representatives of a deceased operator (regulation 9);

d

to require the Secretary of State to review the operation and effect of the principal Regulations in relation to England before 6th April 2017, and within every 5 years after that (regulation 11);

e

to reduce regulatory requirements for those who operate certain anaerobic digestion installations or burn in appliances waste-derived fuel that has ceased to be waste (regulation 12);

f

to make minor changes to certain exempt waste operations (regulation 13);

g

to make minor changes relating to radioactive substances activities (regulation 16).

These Regulations also make miscellaneous and consequential amendments to other legislation (Part 3).

An impact assessment of the effect that this instrument will have on the costs of business, the voluntary sector and the public sector is available from the Better Regulation Programme, Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, Ergon House, Horseferry Road, London SW1P 2AL. It is published at www.legislation.gov.uk alongside the Explanatory Memorandum and this instrument.