2011 No. 210
European Communities
Environmental Protection

The Environmental Liability (Prevention and Remediation) (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2011

Made
Coming into operation
The Department of the Environment, being a Department1 designated for the purposes of section 2(2) of the European Communities Act 19722 in relation to the environment, acting in exercise of the powers conferred upon it by that section, makes the following Regulations:

Citation, commencement and interpretation1.

(1)

These Regulations may be cited as the Environmental Liability (Prevention and Remediation) (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2011 and come into operation on 25th June 2011.

(2)

The Interpretation Act (Northern Ireland) 19543 applies to these Regulations as it applies to an Act of the Assembly.
Annotations:
Commencement Information

I1Reg. 1 in operation at 25.6.2011, see reg. 1(1)

Amendment of the Environmental Liability (Prevention and Remediation) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 20092.

(1)

The Environmental Liability (Prevention and Remediation) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 20094 are amended as follows.

(2)

In Schedule 2, after paragraph 9 insert—

“Geological storage of carbon dioxide10.

The operation of storage sites pursuant to Directive 2009/31/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 23 April 2009 on the geological storage of carbon dioxide.”.

Annotations:
Commencement Information

I2Reg. 2 in operation at 25.6.2011, see reg. 1(1)

Sealed with the Official Seal of the Department of the Environment on 3rd June 2011.

Denis McMahon
A senior officer of the Department of the Environment
EXPLANATORY NOTE
(This note is not part of the Regulations)

These Regulations amend the Environmental Liability (Prevention and Remediation) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2009 which implement Directive 2004/35/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council on environmental liability with regard to the prevention and remedying of environmental damage (“the Environmental Liability Directive”). The Regulations make provision for implementing an amendment to the Environmental Liability Directive by Article 34 of Directive 2009/31/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 23 April 2009 on the geological storage of carbon dioxide.