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Title Year and Number Legislation Type Review Date
The Persistent Organic Pollutants (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2022 2022/1293 UK Statutory Instruments
The Pesticides (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 2019/1410 UK Statutory Instruments
The Persistent Organic Pollutants (Various Amendments) Regulations 2019 2019/1099 UK Statutory Instruments
The Environment and Rural Affairs (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 2019/1078 UK Statutory Instruments
The REACH etc. (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 2019/758 UK Statutory Instruments
The Fisheries (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 2019/746 UK Statutory Instruments
The International Waste Shipments (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 2019/590 UK Statutory Instruments
The Waste (Miscellaneous Amendments) (EU Exit) (No. 2) Regulations 2019 2019/188 UK Statutory Instruments
The Control of Mercury (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 2019/96 UK Statutory Instruments
The Persistent Organic Pollutants (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2018 2018/1405 UK Statutory Instruments
The Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment (Amendment) (No. 2) Regulations 2018 2018/1214 UK Statutory Instruments 01/01/2022
The Environment and Rural Affairs (Miscellaneous Revocations) Order 2018 2018/739 UK Statutory Instruments
The Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment (Amendment) Regulations 2018 2018/102 UK Statutory Instruments
The Fluorinated Greenhouse Gases (Amendment) Regulations 2018 2018/98 UK Statutory Instruments
The Control of Mercury (Enforcement) Regulations 2017 2017/1200 UK Statutory Instruments
The Environmental Damage (Prevention and Remediation) (England) (Amendment) Regulations 2017 2017/1177 UK Statutory Instruments
The Producer Responsibility Obligations (Packaging Waste) (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 2016 2016/241 UK Statutory Instruments
The Water Environment (Water Framework Directive) (Northumbria and Solway Tweed River Basin Districts) (Amendment) Regulations 2016 2016/139 UK Statutory Instruments
The Large Combustion Plants (Transitional National Plan) Regulations 2015 2015/1973 UK Statutory Instruments
The Hazardous Waste (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 2015 2015/1360 UK Statutory Instruments
The Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment Regulations 2013 2013/3113 UK Statutory Instruments 31/12/2018
The Conservation of Habitats and Species Regulations 2010 2010/490 UK Statutory Instruments 16/08/2017
The Mercury Export and Data (Enforcement) Regulations 2010 2010/265 UK Statutory Instruments
The REACH Enforcement Regulations 2008 2008/2852 UK Statutory Instruments 16/12/2018
The Waste and Air Pollution (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 2007 2007/3476 UK Statutory Instruments
Greenhouse Gas Emissions Trading Scheme (Amendment No. 2) Regulations 2007 2007/3433 UK Statutory Instruments
The Persistent Organic Pollutants Regulations 2007 2007/3106 UK Statutory Instruments
The Large Combustion Plants (National Emission Reduction Plan) Regulations 2007 2007/2325 UK Statutory Instruments
The Transfrontier Shipment of Waste Regulations 2007 2007/1711 UK Statutory Instruments 01/05/2019
Greenhouse Gas Emissions Trading Scheme (Amendment) Regulations 2007 2007/465 UK Statutory Instruments
Greenhouse Gas Emissions Trading Scheme (Amendment) and National Emissions Inventory Regulations 2005 2005/2903 UK Statutory Instruments
The End-of-Life Vehicles (Producer Responsibility) Regulations 2005 2005/263 UK Statutory Instruments
The End-of-Life Vehicles Regulations 2003 2003/2635 UK Statutory Instruments
Water Act 2003 2003/37 UK Public General Acts
Waste and Emissions Trading Act 2003 2003/33 UK Public General Acts
Pollution Prevention and Control Act 1999 1999/24 UK Public General Acts
Environmental Protection Act 1990 1990/43 UK Public General Acts
Salmon Act 1986 1986/62 UK Public General Acts
Coast Protection Act 1949 1949/74 UK Public General Acts