2018 No. 110

Environmental Protection, England And Wales

The Environmental Permitting (England and Wales) (Amendment) Regulations 2018

Made

Coming into force in accordance with regulation 1

The Secretary of State and the Welsh Ministers make these Regulations in exercise of the powers conferred by sections 2 and 7(9) of, and Schedule 1 to, the Pollution Prevention and Control Act 1999 (“the 1999 Act”)1.

In accordance with section 2(4) of the 1999 Act, the Secretary of State and the Welsh Ministers have consulted—

a

the Environment Agency,

b

the Natural Resources Body for Wales,

c

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

d

such other bodies or persons as they consider appropriate.

A draft of this instrument has been approved by a resolution of each House of Parliament and by the National Assembly for Wales pursuant to section 2(8) and (9)(d) of the 1999 Act2.