Bill Longley-Cook, Author at Simplifi Solutions

1st December 2023

SI 2023/1289

SI 2023/1289. The Prohibition on the Incineration, or the Deposit in Landfill, of Specified Waste (Wales) Regulations 2023. Comes into force 6th April 2024. These Regulations amend, for Wales only, Schedules 9 and 10 of the Environmental Permitting (England and Wales) Regulations 2016 (SI 2016/1154). The amendment prohibits incineration or landfilling of waste food, small electrical and electronic equipment, card, cartons, certain textiles and wood.

1st December 2023

SI 2023/1290

SI 2023/1290. The Waste Separation Requirements (Wales) Regulations 2023. Comes into force 6th April 2024. These Regulations amend, for Wales only, sections 46 (receptacles for household waste) and 47 (receptacles for commercial or industrial waste) of the Environmental Protection Act 1990 and the Waste (England and Wales) Regulations 2011 (SI 2011/988) to restrict the application of regulations 13 (duties in relation to collection of waste) and 14 (duty in relation to collected waste) to domestic properties and caravans.

30th November 2023

SI 2023/1279

SI 2023/1279. The Town and Country Planning (General Permitted Development etc.) (England) (Amendment) (No. 2) Order 2023. Comes into force 21st December. This Order amends the Town and Country Planning (General Permitted Development) (England) Order 2015 (SI 2015/596). Amendments are to Class M (extensions etc for schools, colleges, universities, prisons and hospitals), Class A, B, J and K (installation or alteration etc of solar equipment on domestic premises) of Schedule 2.

27th November 2023

Simplifi November ’23 newsletter

In our November newsletter we bring to your attention two new Acts of Parliament. These are The Online Safety Act and the Energy Act.

It should be remembered that Acts of Parliament (primary legislation) confer powers on Ministers to make more detailed orders or regulations by means of Statutory Instruments (SIs), which are also known as secondary, subordinate or delegated legislation. Both these Acts will, in time, result in the production of supporting SIs.

During November amendments were made to SIs covering revocation of retained EU legislation, environmental permitting, dangerous substances (two), energy saving, planning, merchant shipping, climate change and waste (four). Consultations have been opened on anti-fouling systems and climate change agreements. We include three items of news on POPs (Persistent Organic Pollutants), non-destructive testing and changes to the administration of UK REACH. There is one prosecution of note resulting from a fall from height.

A question was asked about the difference between EU Directives and EU Regulations. EU Directives lay down certain results that must be achieved, but each Member State is free to decide how to transpose directives into its national laws. EU Regulations have binding legal force throughout every Member State and enter into force on a set date in all the Member States.