# The Environmental Damage (Prevention and Remediation) (England) Regulations 2015, Regulation 2: Interpretation

Extent: E+W+S+N.I.

(1) In these Regulations—
“activity” means any economic activity, whether public or private and whether or not carried out for profit;
“baselines” means the baselines from which the breadth of the territorial sea is measured for the purposes of the Territorial Sea Act 1987 ;
“Directive 2000/60/EC” means Directive 2000/60/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council establishing a framework for Community action in the field of water policy ;
“Directive 2004/35/EC” means Directive 2004/35/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council on environmental liability with regard to the prevention and remedying of environmental damage;
“enforcing authority” means the person or body responsible for enforcing these Regulations, in accordance with regulation 10 or 11;
“local authority” means (except in relation to a local authority in Wales)—
(a)where there is a unitary authority for a local government area, that authority;
(b)where there is not a unitary authority—
(i)in a metropolitan district, the council of that district;
(ii)in a non-metropolitan county, the district council;
(iii)in each London borough, the council of that borough;
(iv)in the City of London, the Common Council;
(v)on the Isles of Scilly, the Council of the Isles of Scilly;
“marine waters” means waters classified as marine waters pursuant to Directive 2008/56/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council establishing a framework for Community action in the field of marine environmental policy ;
“natural habitat” means—
(a)the habitats of species mentioned in Article 4(2) of, or Annex I to, Council Directive 2009/147/EC on the conservation of wild birds or listed in Annex II to Council Directive 92/43/EEC on the conservation of natural habitats and of wild fauna and flora ;
(b)the natural habitats listed in Annex I to Council Directive 92/43/EEC; and
(c)the breeding sites or resting places of the species listed in Annex IV to Council Directive 92/43/EEC;
“natural resources” means—
(a)a protected species;
(b)a natural habitat;
(c)a species or habitat on a site of special scientific interest by reason of which the site has been notified under section 28 of the Wildlife and Countryside Act 1981 ;
(d)water; and
(e)land;
“operator” means the person who operates or controls an activity, including the holder of a permit or authorisation relating to that activity, or the person registering or notifying an activity for the purposes of any enactment;
“protected species” means a species of a kind mentioned in Article 4(2) of Council Directive 2009/147/EC or listed in Annex I to that Directive or Annexes II and IV to Council Directive 92/43/EEC;
“remediation notice” means a notice served in accordance with regulation 20(2);
“responsible operator” means the operator in relation to an activity that has caused environmental damage;
“the Scottish zone” has the meaning it has in the Scotland Act 1998 ;
“services” means the functions performed by natural resources which benefit other natural resources or the public;
“site of special scientific interest” has the same meaning as in the Wildlife and Countryside Act 1981 .
“the Welsh zone” has the same meaning as in section 158(1) of the Government of Wales Act 2006.
(2) Unless otherwise defined in these Regulations, expressions used in Directive 2004/35/EC have the same meaning in these Regulations.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2015/810/regulation/2 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/environmental-damage-prevention-and-remediation-england-regulations-2015/regulation-2
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