2013 No. 2854

Environmental Protection, England

Food, England

The Environmental Noise, Site Waste Management Plans and Spreadable Fats etc. (Revocations and Amendments) Regulations 2013

Made4th November 2013

Laid before Parliament8th November 2013

Coming into force1st December 2013

The Secretary of State is designated1 for the purposes of section 2(2) of the European Communities Act 19722 in relation to measures relating to the assessment, management and control of environmental noise.

So far as relating to regulation 3 of the following regulations, the Secretary of State has carried out consultation in accordance with section 48(4) of the Food Safety Act 19903 and has had regard to relevant advice given by the Food Standards Agency in accordance with section 48(4A) of that Act.

So far as relating to regulation 2(a) and (b), the Secretary of State makes the following Regulations in exercise of the powers conferred by section 2(2) of the European Communities Act 1972.

So far as relating to regulation 2(c), the Secretary of State makes the following Regulations in exercise of the powers conferred by section 54 of the Clean Neighbourhoods and Environment Act 20054.

So far as relating to regulation 3, the Secretary of State makes the following Regulations in exercise of the powers conferred by sections 16(1) and 26(1) and (3) of the Food Safety Act 1990, and now vested in the Secretary of State5.

Citation and commencement1.

These Regulations may be cited as the Environmental Noise, Site Waste Management Plans and Spreadable Fats etc. (Revocations and Amendments) Regulations 2013 and come into force on 1st December 2013.

Revocations2.

The following Regulations are revoked—

(a)

the Environmental Noise (Identification of Noise Sources) (England) Regulations 20076;

(b)

the Environmental Noise (Identification of Noise Sources) (England) (Amendment) Regulations 20077;

(c)

the Site Waste Management Plans Regulations 20088.

Amendment of the Spreadable Fats (Marketing Standards) and the Milk and Milk Products (Protection of Designations) (England) Regulations 20083.

(1)

The Spreadable Fats (Marketing Standards) and the Milk and Milk Products (Protection of Designations) (England) Regulations 20089 are amended as follows.

(2)

In regulation 2(1), omit the definitions of “vitamin A” and “vitamin D”.

(3)

In regulation 3—

(a)

in paragraph (1), omit the words “Except where paragraph (2) applies,”;

(b)

omit paragraphs (2) and (3).

(4)

Omit regulation 4.

(5)

Omit regulation 6(1)(a).

Dan Rogerson

Parliamentary Under Secretary of State

Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

4th November 2013

EXPLANATORY NOTE

(This note is not part of the Regulations)

These Regulations revoke the Environmental Noise (Identification of Noise Sources) (England) Regulations 2007 (S.I. 2007/415), the Environmental Noise (Identification of Noise Sources) (England) (Amendment) Regulations 2007 (S.I. 2007/2458) and the Site Waste Management Plans Regulations 2008 (S.I. 2008/314).

They also amend the Spreadable Fats (Marketing Standards) and the Milk and Milk Products (Protection of Designations) (England) Regulations 2008 (S.I. 2008/1287) to revoke regulation 4 (which prohibits the sale by retail of margarine unless it contains specified proportions of vitamins A and D) and make consequential amendments.

A full impact assessment of the effect that the revocation of the Site Waste Management Plans Regulations 2008 will have on the costs of business and the voluntary sector is available at www.gov.uk/defra and is annexed to the Explanatory Memorandum which is available alongside the instrument at www.legislation.gov.uk. No impact assessment has been prepared for the remaining provisions of this instrument, as no, or no significant, impact on the private or voluntary sectors is foreseen.