Regulation 7 The Environmental Damage (Prevention and Remediation) (England) Regulations 2015

(1)

The Environmental Damage (Prevention and Remediation) (England) Regulations 2015^f1 are amended as follows.

(2)

For regulation 3 substitute—

“3.

(1)
For the purposes of these Regulations, a reference in any EU instrument referred to in these Regulations—
(a)
to the “European Union” or otherwise to the area to which that instrument applies is to be taken to include the United Kingdom;

(b)
to a “Member State” is to be taken to include the United Kingdom.”.

(3)

In Schedule 1, in paragraph 1(e), for “or in the European Union as a whole” substitute “, national or in their natural range”.

(4)

In Schedule 2—

(a)

after paragraph 1 insert—

“Interpretation

1A.

A reference in this Schedule to an activity being authorised, prohibited or managed pursuant to, or subject to a permit or registration under, a Directive includes, after exit day, any activity authorised, prohibited or managed pursuant to, or subject to a permit or registration under, any retained EU law which transposed that Directive.”;

(b)

in paragraph 10, after “the Community” insert “or into or out of the United Kingdom”.

Annotations

Footnotes

f1: S.I. 2015/810, as amended by S.I. 2017/1177.