Environment Act 2021

Text, Guide and Analysis
Erscheinungsjahr 2022
ISBN: 978-1-5099-5102-4
Verlag: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC

Buch, Englisch, 512 Seiten, Hardback, Format (B × H): 251 mm x 176 mm, Gewicht: 1006 g

The Environment Act 2021 is the most wide-reaching and significant new environmental Statute for many years. In this book, the full text of the Act is reproduced, accompanied by commentary and a section-by-section analysis written by 2 of the UK's leading experts in environmental law.

The book comments on and analyses the main provisions of the Act, including:

- A requirement on government to establish long-term environmental targets and environmental improvement plans;
- Legal recognition for the first time in national law of a number of core environmental principles, including the precautionary principle and the polluter pays principle;
- The establishment of a new independent statutory body, the Office for Environmental Protection;
- Substantial provisions on waste including producer responsibility and resource efficiency;
- Provisions on water resource management, water abstraction and drainage and sewerage;
- Strengthening of controls on air quality; and
- New provisions concerning the protection of nature and biodiversity, including the creation of conservation covenants.

This comprehensive and practical guide to the new legislation will be of significant value to anyone involved in environmental law in both the private and public sector, in particular practitioners and those advising on the impact and ambit of environmental law.

This title is included in Bloomsbury Professional's Environmental Law online service.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Badger, Christopher

Macrory Hon Kc, Richard

Fachgebiete

• Rechtswissenschaften Ausländisches Recht Common Law (UK, USA, Australien u.a.)
• Rechtswissenschaften Öffentliches Recht Umweltrecht Umweltrecht allg., Technikrecht, Immissionsschutzrecht

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Part 1
Environmental governance
Chapter 1
Improving the natural environment
Environmental targets
Environmental monitoring
Policy statement on environmental principles
Environmental protection: statements and reports
Chapter 2
The Office for Environmental Protection
The Office for Environmental Protection
The OEP's scrutiny and advice functions
The OEP's enforcement functions
Arrangement of Sections and Schedules
Information
Chapter 3
Interpretation of Part 1

Part 2
Environmental governance: Northern Ireland

Part 3
Waste and resource efficiency
Producer responsibility
Resource efficiency
Managing waste
Arrangement of Sections and Schedules
Waste enforcement and regulation

Part 4
Air quality and environmental recall
Air quality
Environmental recall of motor vehicles etc

Part 5
Water
Plans and proposals
Storm overflows
Regulation of water and sewerage undertakers
Abstraction
Water quality
Land drainage

Part 6
Nature and biodiversity
Biodiversity gain in planning
Biodiversity objective and reporting
Arrangement of Sections and Schedules
Local nature recovery strategies
Conservation
Habitats Regulations
Tree felling and planting
Use of forest risk commodities in commercial activity

Part 7
Conservation covenants
Creation of conservation covenant
Effect of conservation covenant
Arrangement of Sections and Schedules
Breach and enforcement
Discharge and modification
Replacement etc of responsible body
Miscellaneous
Supplementary

Part 8
Miscellaneous and general provisions
Regulation of chemicals
Concurrent functions in Wales
General provisions
Arrangement of Sections and Schedules

Über Autor(innen)

Badger, Christopher
Christopher Badger is a barrister at 6 Pump Court, UK.

Macrory Hon Kc, Richard
Richard Macrory Hon KC is Emeritus Professor of environmental law at University College London where he set up and was first director of the Centre for Law and the Environment.

Professor Macrory served as a board member of the Environment Agency England and Wales between 1999 and 2004, and was a long-standing member of the Royal Commission on Environmental Pollution. He was the founding editor of the Journal of Environmental Law.

In 2006 Professor Macrory led the Cabinet Office Review on Regulatory Sanctions and his recommendations were reflected in Part 3 Regulatory Enforcement and Sanctions Act 2008 which established the framework for civil sanctions in the regulatory field.

Professor Macrory was the first chair of the UK Environmental Law Association, and in 2016-2018 was co-chair of the UKELA's Brexit Task Force. He is a bencher of Grays Inn, and was appointed an Hon. KC in 2008.

Christopher Badger is a barrister at 6 Pump Court, UK.
Richard Macrory Hon KC is Emeritus Professor of Environmental Law at University College London, UK.