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

[F1 Decision (EU) 2019/1741 establishing the format and frequency of data to be made available by the Member States for the purposes of reporting under Regulation (EC) No 166/2006 of the European Parliament and of the Council concerning the establishment of a European Pollutant and Release Transfer Register U.K.

24D.— (1) Decision (EU) 2019/1741 establishing the format and frequency of data to be made available by the Member States for the purposes of reporting under Regulation (EC) No 166/2006 of the European Parliament and of the Council concerning the establishment of a European Pollutant and Release Transfer Register is amended as follows.

(2) In Article 1—

(i) in the first paragraph—

(aa) for “Member States shall” substitute “Appropriate authorities outside England and the competent authority in England must”;

(bb) from the words “, using the specific” to the end substitute “to the Secretary of the State in accordance with this Decision”.;

(ii) in the second paragraph, for “2019” substitute “2020”;

(iii) in the third and fourth paragraphs, for “Commission” substitute “Secretary of State”.

(3) In Article 2—

(i) in the first paragraph—

(aa) for “E-PRTR” substitute “United Kingdom-PRTR”;

(bb) from the words “Member States, the” to “European Environment Agency” substitute “appropriate authorities”.

(4) After Article 2, insert—

“Article 3 U.K.

1.   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.

2.   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.”.

(4) Omit “This Decision is addressed to the Member States”.

(5) In the Annex—

(a) in the heading, for “Member States” substitute “appropriate authorities outside England or the competent authority in England”;

(b) in the Note before the table—

(i) for “Member States” substitute “The appropriate authorities outside England or the competent authority in England”;

(ii) for “Commission” substitute “Secretary of State”;

(c) at each place that it occurs (including in footnote (h)), for “E-PRTR” substitute “UK-PRTR”;

(d) in the table—

(i) in footnote (g) —

(aa) omit the first sentence;

(bb) for “Commission” substitute “Secretary of State”;

(ii) in footnote (h) omit “EU”.]

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