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Statutory Instruments
Environmental Protection, England
Made
7th October 2020
Coming into force in accordance with regulation 1(2)
The Secretary of State makes these Regulations in exercise of the powers conferred by section 87(1)(a) and (b), (2)(c), (e), (i), (j), (m), (n), (o) and (5) of, and paragraph 5 of Schedule 11 to, the Environment Act 1995(1) (“the 1995 Act”).
The Secretary of State makes these Regulations having determined that it is necessary in order to meet obligations placed upon the UK under the EU Treaties and international agreements relating to air quality(2).
In accordance with section 87(7)(3) of the 1995 Act, the Secretary of State has consulted the Environment Agency(4), such bodies or persons appearing to the Secretary of State to be representative of the interests of local government and of industry as the Secretary of State considers appropriate, and such other bodies or persons as the Secretary of State considers appropriate.
A draft of this instrument has been approved by a resolution of each House of Parliament pursuant to section 87(8) of the 1995 Act.
1995 c. 25 (“the 1995 Act”); subsection (1) was amended by S.I. 2011/1043.
In particular Directive 2016/2284/EU of the European Parliament and the Council relating to national emission ceilings for certain atmospheric pollutants (OJ No L 344, 17.12.2016, p 1) and the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe 1979 Convention on Long-Range Transboundary Air Pollution and its 1999 Protocol to Abate Acidification, Eutrophication and Ground-level Ozone, which was revised in 2012.
As amended by S.I. 2013/755.
The Environment Agency was established by section 1 of the 1995 Act.
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