The Environmental Permitting (England and Wales) Regulations 2016

Review: England

80.—(1) The Secretary of State, in relation to England, must from time to time—

(a) carry out a review of the regulatory provisions in these Regulations, and

(b) publish a report setting out the conclusions of the review.

(2) In carrying out a review of any regulatory provision which implements an obligation in any of the following Directives, the Secretary of State must have regard to how the obligation is implemented in other member States—

(a) the Asbestos Directive,

(b) the Basic Safety Standards Directive,

(c) the Batteries Directive,

(d) the End-of-Life Vehicles Directive,

(e) the Energy Efficiency Directive,

(f) the Groundwater Directive,

(g) the HASS Directive,

(h) the Industrial Emissions Directive,

(i) the Landfill Directive,

(j) the Mining Waste Directive,

(k) PVR I,

(l) PVR II,

(m) the Waste Framework Directive,

(n) the Water Framework Directive, and

(o) the WEEE Directive.

(3) The report must in particular—

(a) set out the objectives intended to be achieved by the regulatory provisions,

(b) assess the extent to which those objectives are achieved,

(c) assess whether those objectives remain appropriate, and

(d) if those objectives remain appropriate, assess the extent to which they could be achieved in another way which involves less onerous regulatory provisions.

(4) The first report under this regulation must be published before the end of December 2019.

(5) Subsequent reports under this regulation must be published at intervals not exceeding 5 years.

(6) In this regulation, “regulatory provisions” has the meaning given in section 32(4) of the Small Business, Enterprise and Employment Act 2015(1).

(1)

2015 c. 26.