Compliance

The Conference of Parties to the Basel Convention has agreed to a significant extension of the international control regime to include plastic waste and to set up a new partnership

A consultation on changes to the producer responsibility system has recently closed. Dominic Hogg looks at what impact these proposals might have on producers and local authorities

A consultation on a planned plastic packaging tax, one of the government’s flagship policies designed to combat the proliferation of single-use plastics, closes on 12 May 2019

Organisations must notify the Environment Agency by 5 December 2019 to comply with their obligations under a scheme requiring large firms to assess their energy use

Important deadlines relating to cosmetic products, transport procurement, ecolabel criteria, clean air zones, chemicals, flooding, and marine conservation are coming up in August

Important deadlines relating to REACH authorisations, chemicals labelling, carbon emissions monitoring, energy efficiency, flood strategy, carbon pricing, transport of radioactive material, and marine conservation are coming up in July

Important deadlines relating to restriction of hazardous substances, carbon emissions monitoring, planning fees, environmental governance, standard rule sets for tranche B specified generators and medium combustion plants, energy efficiency, and unconventional oil and gas are coming up in June

Important deadlines relating to conservation, chemicals restriction under REACH, carbon emissions accounting and sectoral reference documents under the EU Eco-Management and Audit Scheme (EMAS) are coming up in May

Important deadlines relating to best practice, waste compliance, industrial strategies, pollutants and chemicals are coming up in February and early March