The Environmental Permitting (England and Wales) (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019
3.—(1) The Environmental Permitting (England and Wales) (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019(1) are amended as follows.
(2) In regulation 2—
(a)omit paragraph (11)(b)(i);
(b)in paragraph (17)(b)(i)—
(i)in the words before sub-paragraph (aa), for “for” substitute “in”;
(ii)omit sub-paragraph (aa);
(c)omit paragraph (18)(b)(i).
(3) In the Schedule, in the text of new Schedule 1A, after paragraph 6(5) insert—
“(5A) Article 9 is to be read as if—
(a)in paragraph 2, for “Member States” there were substituted “the competent authority”;
(b)in paragraph 4, for the words from “to 3 shall not” to the end, substitute “and 2 and the references to Annex 1 to Directive 2003/87/EC in both are to be read as if for “in a storage site permitted under Directive 2009/31/EC(2)” in each place in which those words occur in that Annex, there were substituted “in a storage site permitted under Chapter 3 of Part 1 of the Energy Act 2008(3) or other domestic legislation which immediately before exit day implemented Directive 2009/31/EC””.
Directive 2009/31/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 23 April 2009 on the geological storage of carbon dioxide and amending Council Directive 85/337/EEC, European Parliament and Council Directives 2000/60/EC, 2001/80/EC, 2004/35/EC, 2006/12/EC, 2008/1/EC and Regulation (EC) No 1013/2006.