(This note is not part of the Regulations)
These Regulations implement Article 34 of Directive 2009/31/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council on the geological storage of carbon dioxide.
Regulation 2 amends the Environmental Liability (Scotland) Regulations 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 (O.J. No. L 143, 30.4.2004), to add the operation of carbon storage sites to the list of activities to which those Regulations apply.