UK guidance

Legislation updates for July 2019

The Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs published guidance on regulating persistent organic pollutants if there's no Brexit deal. Should the UK leave the EU without a deal, the UK's persistent organic pollutants (POPs) regulation will continue in its current form. Because the UK signed both the Stockholm Convention and the Convention on Long-Range Transboundary Air Pollution on POPs (CLRTAP), all existing obligations and protections will continue.

Published: 22 July 2019

The Environment Agency, Natural Resources Wales, Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs, and the Welsh Government published guidance on medium combustion plants (MCP) to help organisations comply with emission limit values (ELVs). The guidance explains the ELV the MCP must meet, based on its type, the fuel it burns and technology it uses. Furthermore, the guidance also describes the circumstances when MCPs are exempt from ELVs. Published: 15 July 2019

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