Statutory Instruments

2012 No. 630

Environmental Protection, England And Wales

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

Made

28th February 2012

Laid before Parliament

5th March 2012

Laid before the National Assembly for Wales

5th March 2012

Coming into force

6th April 2012

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 1999(1).

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 consulted(2)—

(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.

Textual Amendments

F1Regulations revoked (except regs. 1-3, 19(1)(2), 20, 21) (1.1.2017) by The Environmental Permitting (England and Wales) Regulations 2016 (S.I. 2016/1154), reg. 1(1), Sch. 28 (with regs. 1(3), 77-79, Sch. 4)

PART 1E+WGeneral

Citation and commencementE+W

1. 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.

Commencement Information

I1Reg. 1 in force at 6.4.2012, see reg. 1(b)

InterpretationE+W

2. In these Regulations, “the principal Regulations” means the Environmental Permitting (England and Wales) Regulations 2010(3).

Commencement Information

I2Reg. 2 in force at 6.4.2012, see reg. 1(b)

PART 2E+WAmendments to the principal Regulations

Regulation 2 (interpretation: general)E+W

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

Commencement Information

I3Reg. 3 in force at 6.4.2012, see reg. 1(b)

Regulation 17 (single site permits etc)E+W

F14. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Textual Amendments

Regulation 19 (subsistence of an environmental permit)E+W

F15. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Textual Amendments

Regulation 20 (variation of an environmental permit)E+W

F16. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Textual Amendments

Regulation 21 (transfer of an environmental permit)E+W

F17. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Textual Amendments

Regulation 60 (power to require the provision of information)E+W

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Textual Amendments

New Chapter 1A in Part 7 (death of sole operator)E+W

F19. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Textual Amendments

Regulation 109 (repeals)E+W

F110. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Textual Amendments

Regulation 110 (review)E+W

F111. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Textual Amendments

Part 2 of Schedule 1 (activities)E+W

F112. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Textual Amendments

Part 1 of Schedule 3 (exempt facilities: exempt waste operations)E+W

F113. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Textual Amendments

Schedule 5 (environmental permits)E+W

F114. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Textual Amendments

Schedule 10 (landfill)E+W

F115. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Textual Amendments

Schedule 23 (radioactive substances activities)E+W

F116. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Textual Amendments

PART 3E+WConsequential and other amendments

Site Waste Management Plans Regulations 2008E+W

F117. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Textual Amendments

The Environmental Damage (Prevention and Remediation) Regulations 2009E+W

F118. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Textual Amendments

The Environmental Damage (Prevention and Remediation) (Wales) Regulations 2009E+W

19.—(1) The Environmental Damage (Prevention and Remediation) (Wales) Regulations 2009(4) are amended as follows.

(2) 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)—

(i)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”.

F1(3) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

F1(4) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Textual Amendments

Commencement Information

I4Reg. 19 in force at 6.4.2012, see reg. 1(b)

Infrastructure Planning (Miscellaneous Prescribed Provisions) Regulations 2010E+W

20.—(1) The Infrastructure Planning (Miscellaneous Prescribed Provisions) Regulations 2010(5) 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.”; and

(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.”.

Commencement Information

I5Reg. 20 in force at 6.4.2012, see reg. 1(b)

Mercury Export and Data (Enforcement) Regulations 2010E+W

21. In regulation 5(4) of the Mercury Export and Data (Enforcement) Regulations 2010 (offences in respect of the EU Regulation)(6), 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;”.

Commencement Information

I6Reg. 21 in force at 6.4.2012, see reg. 1(b)

Conservation of Habitats and Species Regulations 2010E+W

F122. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Textual Amendments

Taylor of Holbeach

Parliamentary Under Secretary of State

Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

16th February 2012

John Griffiths

Minister for Environment and Sustainable Development

one of the Welsh Ministers

28th February 2012

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.

(1)

1999 c. 24. Paragraph 9A of Schedule 1 was inserted by S.I. 2005/925, Schedule 6, paragraph 2(2)(a). Paragraph 21A was inserted by section 38 of the Waste and Emissions Trading Act 2003 (c. 33). Paragraph 24 was amended by S.I. 2005/925, Schedule 6, paragraph 2(2)(b). Paragraph 25 was amended by section 105(1)(a) and (b) of the Clean Neighbourhoods and Environment Act 2005 (c. 16). Functions of the Secretary of State under section 2 (except in relation to offshore oil and gas exploration and exploitation), so far as exercisable in relation to Wales, were transferred to the National Assembly for Wales by article 3 of the National Assembly for Wales (Transfer of Functions) Order 2005 (S.I. 2005/1958). Those functions were then transferred to the Welsh Ministers by section 162 of, and paragraph 30 of Schedule 11 to, the Government of Wales Act 2006 (c. 32).

(2)

The requirement in that section to consult the bodies and persons mentioned, so far as exercisable in relation to Wales, was transferred from the Secretary of State to the National Assembly for Wales by article 3 of S.I. 2005/1958. The requirement was then transferred to the Welsh Ministers by section 162 of, and paragraph 30 of Schedule 11 to, the Government of Wales Act 2006 (c. 32).

(3)

S.I. 2010/675; a relevant amending instrument is S.I. 2011/2043.

(4)

S.I. 2009/995 (W. 81), to which there are amendments not relevant to these Regulations.

(5)

S.I. 2010/105.

(6)

S.I. 2010/265.