Recent Legislation

• These Regulations amend the Waste Management Licensing Regulations 1994 and the Clean Air (Emission of Dark Smoke) (Exemption) Regulations 1969. The 1994 Regulations implement (in part), in relation to England and Wales, Council Directive 75/442/EEC on waste and Council Directive 1999/31/EC on the landfill of waste.
  
  Regulation 3 amends paragraph 47(1)(g) of Schedule 3 to the 1994 Regulations so that under this exemption an application of liquid milk to land may only be made once a month.
  
  Regulation 4 amends paragraph 48 of Schedule 3 to the 1994 Regulations so that under this exemption any application of plant tissue to land must be made in accordance with any conditions that may have been imposed by a notice served under either the Plant Health (England) Order 2005 or the Plant Health (Wales) Order 2006.
  
  Regulation 5 inserts new paragraphs into Schedule 3 to the 1994 Regulations to provide for exemptions from waste management licensing for activities involving the disposal of pesticide solution into a lined biobed and treatment of the land with the biobed itself, the treatment of land with ash from the incineration of pig or poultry carcases and the treatment of land with dredging spoil from farm ditches.
  
  Regulation 6 omits item 6 in the table in Schedule 1 to the Clean Air (Emission of Dark Smoke) (Exemption) Regulations 1969. This amendment removes an exemption for the emission of dark smoke caused by the open burning of containers lightly contaminated with pesticides.

• In force - 2 May 2007
• Access to document:  Office of Public Sector Information (OPSI) Document

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