News Category: UK Waste Legislation and Guidance
Consultation on the second phase of the Environmental Permitting Programme (EPP2)
29 October 2009
Results are now available on the joint Defra, Department of Energy and Climate
Change (DECC), Environment Agency and Welsh Assembly Government (WAG) consultation
on the second phase of the Environmental Permitting Programme (EPP2).
EPP2 is a Better Regulation initiative designed to reduce costs for operators
and the regulator by cutting unnecessary red tape, while continuing to protect
the environment and human health. The consultation proposed to extend the single
EP system formed under EPP1 to create a common system of risk-based environmental
permitting and compliance for an extended range of regimes including permits
for keeping and use of radioactive materials; and for accumulation and disposal
of radioactive waste.
Further information and a summary of responses are available here:
http://www.defra.gov.uk/corporate/consult/env-permitting/index.htm |
