Businesses facing a potential prosecution by the Environment Agency may wish to consider whether the offer of an Enforcement Undertaking would be a viable alternative.
WATER CASE, PIGOT v ENVIRONMENT AGENCY
SLEEPWALKING INTO A SURVEILLANCE STATE ?
At present the population of the country is still locked down, and the United Kingdom Parliament is for the time being reduced to a half-empty echo chamber. It is against that background that the UK Government proposes to introduce a contact tracing app, and, apparently, to opt for the centralised version which carries greater risks from state surveillance.
JACQUES LAVOIE, 1961-2020
UK AND GERMANY LEAD ONLINE PETERSBERG CLIMATE DIALOGUE ON GREEN RECOVERY
RAPID POLITICAL PROGRESS ON CALLS FOR “GREEN RECOVERY”
EVIDENCE TO CLIMATE CHANGE, ENVIRONMENT & RURAL AFFAIRS COMMITTEE, NATIONAL ASSEMBLY FOR WALES - LEGISLATIVE CONSENT MEMORANDUM RE UK ENVIRONMENT BILL
CHEMICALS STRATEGY ON HOLD – CIA STATEMENT ON REAGENTS, BREXIT
DEFRA announced in April that the regular UK Chemical Stakeholders Forum meeting schedule for 24th June would be postponed, and that current work on the country’s Chemical Strategy would be suspended, as relevant staff were being moved to support priority work on Covid -19, on which of course everyone will wish them well.
COP 26 POSTPONED TO 2021
The UN climate change summit expected to take place in Glasgow in November 2020 has been postponed to 2021, due to the coronavirus. The 26th conference of parties to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change had been expected to attract 30,000 delegates and 190 heads of government, co-hosted by the governments of the U.K. and Italy.
CORONAVIRUS ACT 2020 receives Royal Assent 25 March 2020
348 pages of emergency legislation, can be found at www.legislation.gov.uk, giving executive government huge powers to address most aspects of the pandemic, from health controls to financial support, comparable to wartime measures.