Environment Bill: 10 things you need to know

ENDS Report Staff
20 Dec 2018

Your at-a-glance guide to the draft environment bill, including details of the remit of the proposed post-Brexit watchdog and how ministers will have regard to environmental principles after the UK leaves the EU

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1 New green watchdog to be called the Office for Environmental Protection
The government’s post-Brexit green watchdog will be known as the Office for Environmental Protection (OEP), the draft bill reveals. In a statement, DEFRA said that the OEP will be an independent, statutory environmental body that will hold government and public bodies to account on environmental standards, including taking legal action to enforce the implementation of environmental law where necessary. MORE.

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