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30 Apr 2019

Environment Bill: MPs (EAC) call for urgent action to plug obvious gaps in coverage

The Environmental Audit Committee’s pre-legislative scrutiny of the draft Environment (Governance and Principles) Bill identifies serious concerns with proposed legislation to protect the environment if the UK leaves the European Union. The Report describes the bill as lacking coherence, with many Government Departments exempted from their environmental responsibilities. Read the report conclusions and recommendations Read […]

23 Apr 2019

Briefing from Greener UK on the Environment Bill

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Greener UK, a group of 14 major environmental organisations has produced a briefing on one of the elements they see as missing from the government’s initial proposals for the Environment Bill: a mechanism for translating national objectives into local delivery. The briefing states that the Bill needs to include provisions to ensure a long term […]

04 Feb 2019

Environmental Law & Regulation: Bar Council – Brexit Paper 28

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Brexit Paper 28: Environmental Law & Regulation ‘Enforcement of the ‘level playing field’ after UK withdrawal from the EU: The loss of the EU Commission as regulator in environmental law and other areas A critical issue in the negotiations over a future relationship between the UK and the EU after any transition/implementation period will be […]

07 Jan 2019

Environment Bill published – Parts of the first such Bill for 20 years

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New environment protections set out in flagship bill Draft clauses for the first Environment Bill for 20 years have been published by the Environment Secretary, Michael Gove Published 19 December 2018 Defra ‘Today the Environment Secretary published draft clauses on environmental principles and governance to be included in an ambitious, broader Environment Bill set for introduction next […]

02 Dec 2018

Environment Bill, First parts – Principles & Governance – will be published before Christmas

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Environment Bill delayed until 2019 The Secretary of State for the Environment, Rt Hon Michael Gove MP, admitted to a parliamentary committee that the only part of the Environment Bill that will be published this year will be the part concerning environmental principles and governance post Brexit, which government is legally obliged to publish by the end […]

23 Jul 2018

Theresa May confirms UK will publish an Environment Bill

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Theresa May missed the Boris speech covered by every media outlet …. Who missed the more significant point for us about the announcement of an Environment Bill. 19 July 2018, source edie newsroom George Ogleby Theresa May has announced that the Government will introduce a new Environmental Bill that Speaking in front of the Liaison Committee […]