Environmental Protection, Principles and Governance: The Environment ACT 2021

Erscheinungsjahr 2025
ISBN: 978-1-5265-1703-6
Verlag: Bloomsbury Academic

Buch, Englisch, 456 Seiten, Paperback, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 248 mm, Gewicht: 454 g

Brexit involves a break from the environmental regulation regime of the EU, including the oversight by the European Commission. A large proportion of existing environmental law and policy in the UK derives from the EU, with its implementation largely monitored and enforced by EU institutions such as the European Commission.

The Environment Act 2021 introduces a new regime of environmental principles and governance to fulfil the role that will be lost upon Brexit.

The Act creates a new regime of environmental policy for the UK, together with a new system of targets, monitoring and reporting on issues such as air quality, water, waste and biodiversity. It also creates an entirely new body - the Office for Environmental Protection - with wide-ranging enforcement powers, and a new form of litigation: environmental review.
In addition, the Act extends and develops environmental law sectorally in a number of significant ways, including by on waste collection, biodiversity net gain, conservation covenants and due diligence on forest risk commodities.
This new book will provide a practitioners' guide to the implementation of the Act including related legislation and regulations made under it.

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

Autoren/Hrsg.

Building, Francis Taylor

Fachgebiete

• Rechtswissenschaften Ausländisches Recht Common Law (UK, USA, Australien u.a.)

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction
The context to and themes of the Environment Act 2021
Environmental law and policy post-Brexit
Overview and objectives of the Environment Act 2021
Policy statement on environmental principles
Environmental targets and monitoring
The specific environmental targets
Environmental improvement plans
Environmental protection: statements and reports
Long-term planning under the Act
The Office for Environmental Protection
The OEP's scrutiny and advice functions
The OEP's enforcement functions Environmental review
The OEP and judicial review
Environmental governance in Northern Ireland
Waste and resource efficiency
Water
Air quality and environmental recall
Nature, biodiversity and conservation covenants
Regulation of chemicals

Über Autor(innen)

Building, Francis Taylor
FTB is a barristers' chambers with a leading reputation for planning, environment, infrastructure, licensing, compulsory purchase and land valuation, rating, local government, ecclesiastical and religious liberty, regulatory crime and associated aspects of EU law.

The author team are from Francis Taylor Building (FTB) who are well-known for the environmental law practice, plus a contribution from Professor Maria Lee who is Professor of Environmental Law at UCL and a member of the FTB Academic Panel. Prof Lee has written extensively about the Bill and issues related to it. She has written a number of books including EU Environmental Law, Governance and Decision-Making for Hart Publishing.
From FTB we have Richard Honey KC and James Pereira KC, who are well known authors on Compulsory Purchase, and Conor Fagan, Merrow Golden and Ned Westaway, who are up and coming juniors in this area of law.