Regulation 7 The Environmental Damage (Prevention and Remediation) (England) Regulations 2015I1

England and Wales

(1)

The Environmental Damage (Prevention and Remediation) (England) Regulations 2015 M1 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 F1IP completion 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

Textual amendments

F1: Words in reg. 7(4)(a) substituted (31.12.2020 immediately before IP completion day) by The Waste and Environmental Permitting etc. (Legislative Functions and Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2020 (S.I. 2020/1540), regs. 1(3), 12(4)

Marginal citations

M1: S.I. 2015/810, as amended by S.I. 2017/1177.

Commencement

I1: Reg. 7 in force at 31.12.2020 on IP completion day (in accordance with 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)), see reg. 1(1)