Responsibilities of the Department
47.—(1) It is the duty of the Department to enforce these Regulations and to supervise the persons and activities subject to any provision of these Regulations.
(2) In preparing any waste strategy under Article 19 of the 1997 Order, and in modifying that strategy in accordance with Article 19(2), and in accordance with Article 7 of the Waste Directive and Article 6(1) of the Hazardous Waste Directive, the Department shall ensure that the content of the strategy under Article 19(3) addresses specifically plans for the management of hazardous waste, supported, as required by consultation and surveys under Article 19(4) and (5), and such plans shall be made public in such manner as appears to the Department to be appropriate.