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EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION

Made 9th February 1993

Coming into operation 31st March 1993

The Department of the Environment, being a department designated^f1 for the purposes of section 2(2) of the European Communities Act 1972^f2 in relation to freedom of access to, and dissemination of, information on the environment held by public authorities or bodies with public responsibilities for the environment and which are under the control of a public authority, in exercise of the powers conferred by that section and of every other power enabling it in that behalf, hereby makes the following regulations: