| Guvnor

Enforced by: NIEA
Status: Amended (in force with amendments)
Penalty ceiling: Regulated

Does it bind you?

Business-side roles with duties under this instrument.

Operator3

Plus 1 duty on the regulator, Crown ministers and public bodies — folded into the section list below.

Other Acts binding the same actors

If a role above is yours, these are the other instruments that most often bind it.

Operator — also bound by 746 other Acts

Regulation (EU) No 965/2012 (Air Operations) 203 duties

Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2018/2066 of 19 December 2018 on the monitoring and reporting of greenhouse gas emissions pursuant to Directive 2003/87/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council and amending Commission Regulation (EU) No 601/2012 (Text with EEA relevance) 121 duties

Commission Regulation (EU) No 601/2012 of 21 June 2012 on the monitoring and reporting of greenhouse gas emissions pursuant to Directive 2003/87/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council (Text with EEA relevance) (repealed) 112 duties

Space Industry Regulations 2021 76 duties

Regulation (EU) 2016/429 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 9 March 2016 on transmissible animal diseases and amending and repealing certain acts in the area of animal health (‘Animal Health Law’) (Text with EEA relevance) 66 duties

What it requires

Regulations creating concrete business duties or carrying penalties, grouped as the instrument is structured. Titles link to the source text — blue means you’re leaving for legislation.gov.uk.

Part 1

Introductory provisions

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10 other sections in this Part — procedural and definitional

s.001 Citation and commencement

s.002 Interpretation

s.002 References in Schedule 2 or 3 to EU instruments are...

s.002 Application

s.003 Meaning of “environmental damage”

s.004 Other legislation

s.005 Exceptions

s.006 Temporal application

s.007 Exception from environmental damage to surface water or groundwater

s.008 Enforcing authority

Part 2

Preventing environmental damage

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5 other sections in this Part — procedural and definitional

s.009 Preventing environmental damage

s.010 Preventing further environmental damage

s.011 Action by the enforcing authority

s.012 Costs

s.013 Following instructions from a public authority

Part 3

Remediation

2 of 8 sections shown

s.015 Determining liability to remediate Regulated

Submit remediation proposals when notified of environmental damageOperator

s.020 Actions by the enforcing authority Regulated

Other duties (1) — Crown / regulator

NIEA may carry out remediation works when no operator exists or fails to actStatutory regulator

6 other sections in this Part — procedural and definitional

s.014 Assessment of damage

s.016 Appeals against liability to remediate

s.017 Remediation notices

s.018 Appeal against the remediation notice

s.019 Appeals generally

s.021 Costs

Part 4

Enforcement

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8 other sections in this Part — procedural and definitional

s.022 Requests for action by interested parties

s.023 Proceedings for costs by the enforcing authority

s.024 Recovery of costs from other persons

s.025 Grant of and compensation for rights of entry etc.

s.026 Powers of authorised persons

s.027 Provision of information to the enforcing authority

s.028 Costs recoverable from owner to be a charge on land

s.029 Penalties

Schedules

2 of 41 shown

s.sch004 Identification of complementary and compensatory remediation Regulated

Replace damaged natural resources like-for-like or pay equivalent costOperator

s.sch004 Remediation of damage to land Regulated

Remediate contaminated land to remove risks to human healthOperator

39 other schedules

s.sch001 Damage to protected species and natural habitats

s.sch001 Conservation status of habitats

s.sch001 Conservation status of species

s.sch001 Areas of special scientific interest

s.sch001 Express authorisation

s.sch002 Operation of permitted installations

s.sch002 Geological storage of carbon dioxide

s.sch002 Interpretation

s.sch002 Waste management operations

s.sch002 Mining waste

s.sch002 Discharges requiring authorisation

s.sch002 Water abstraction and impoundment

s.sch002 Dangerous substances, plant protection products and biocidal products

s.sch002 Transport

s.sch002 Genetically modified organisms

s.sch002 Transboundary shipment of waste

s.sch003 Integrated pollution prevention and control

s.sch003 Waste

s.sch003 Landfill

s.sch003 Incineration plants

s.sch003 Discharges to water

s.sch003 Discharges to groundwater

s.sch003 Water abstraction or impoundment

s.sch003 Pesticides and biocides

s.sch003 Genetically modified organisms

s.sch004 Application of Part 1

s.sch004 Risk to human health

s.sch004 Objective

s.sch004 Primary and complementary remediation

s.sch004 Compensatory remediation

s.sch004 Choice of remediation

s.sch004 Options

s.sch005 Compensation for grant of rights

s.sch005 Interpretation

s.sch005 Period for making an application

s.sch005 Manner of making an application

s.sch005 Loss and damage for which compensation is payable

s.sch005 Basis on which compensation is assessed

s.sch005 Determination of disputes

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