Legal advice alters Agency abstraction policy

The Environment Agency has been forced to change its plans to switch water abstraction licences onto a time-limited footing following legal advice that this would breach human rights legislation. The change will hinder plans for a more flexible abstraction system - but the issue presages a larger dispute over whether plans to rescind permanent licences breach abstractors' human rights.

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