Stirling, Scotland: The Scottish Environmental Protection Agency (SEPA) has released a report on the responses received to its consultation on Better Waste Regulation, which will be followed by an action plan in Spring.
The report is a consolidation of responses received and includes details and associated timescales of elements of the legislation that the environmental watchdog will seek to change.
The document also includes changes that SEPA intends to enact internally to improve delivery of the regulations.
The Better Waste Regulation consultation was issued jointly in March 2007 by the Scottish Government and SEPA to seek views on the current regulatory system and how the system can be improved.
The Scottish Government and SEPA believe that a regime designed around better regulatory principles should:
- eliminate outdated or unnecessary provisions in legislation;
- consolidate, streamline or merge regulatory regimes where possible;
- base regulatory permitting, inspection and enforcement on sound risk principles;
- ensure where companies break the law that enforcement can be swift and effective
- minimise the administrative burdens on companies and regulators wherever possible;
- empower regulators to enforce regulations in a fair, consistent and proportionate manner;
- promote best practice and advice to regulated companies wherever possible.
For further information visit:
http://www.sepa.org.uk/pdf/consultation/closed/2007/bwr/Better_waste.pdf