Before being wound up and absorbed into the Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy, Decc issued a consultation on proposed changes to regulations to recover costs of services under the Offshore Petroleum Activities (Oil Pollution Prevention and Control) Regulations 2005 (OPPC) and the Offshore Chemicals Regulations 2002 (OCR).
On 22 July 2015, Decc introduced secondary legislation incorporating a new method of charging based on an hourly rate system. The department has discovered that it had not been recovering the cost of some services under the OPPC and OCR and is proposing changes to enable it to do so.
The consultation closes on 6 September 2016.