The Air Quality (Miscellaneous Amendment and Revocation of Retained Direct EU Legislation) (EU Exit) Regulations 2018

[F1 Decision (EU) 2019/1713 establishing the format of information to be made available by the Member States for the purposes of reporting on the implementation of Directive (EU) 2015/2193 of the European Parliament and of the Council U.K.

24C.— (1) Decision (EU) 2019/1713 establishing the format of information to be made available by the Member States for the purposes of reporting on the implementation of Directive (EU) 2015/2193 of the European Parliament and of the Council is amended as follows.

(2) In Article 1—

(a) in the first paragraph—

(i) for “Commission” substitute “appropriate authority”;

(ii) for the words from “in accordance with” to “Member States shall” substitute “from medium combustion plants coming within Directive (EU) 2015/2193, the competent authorities must”;

(b) for the second paragraph substitute—

“Where a competent authority holds information covered by this Decision, that authority must provide such information to the relevant appropriate authority so that the appropriate authority can meet its obligations to prepare a report in accordance with Article 3.”.

(3) In Article 2, omit the first paragraph.

(4) After Article 2—

(a) insert—

“Article 3 U.K.

1.   An appropriate authority must publish a summary of the information it receives in accordance with this Decision in such a manner as the appropriate authority considers appropriate, which can include indicating where that information is already publicly available.

2.   For the purpose of this Decision a reference to a provision of a Directive is to be read as a reference to that provision in so far as it has been transposed into the law of any part of the United Kingdom.

3.   In this Decision—

“appropriate authority” means—

(a)

in relation to England, the Secretary of State;

(b)

in relation to Wales, the Welsh Ministers;

(c)

in relation to Scotland, the Scottish Ministers;

(d)

in relation to Northern Ireland, the Department of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs;

“competent authority” means the national authority or authorities, or any other competent body or bodies, designated by the appropriate authority.”;

(b) omit “This Decision is addressed to the Member States.”.

(5) In the Annex, in the Note before Part 1, for “Member States” substitute “competent authorities”.]

Textual Amendments

F1 Regs. 24B-24E inserted (31.12.2020 immediately before IP completion day) by The Environment (Miscellaneous Amendments) (EU Exit) Regulations 2020 (S.I. 2020/1313), regs. 1(3), 5(3)

Commencement Information

I1 Reg. 24C in force at 31.12.2020 on IP completion day (in accordance with 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)), see reg. 1