Consultation on Better Regulation Review of Part B Activities

Atmospheric Quality and Industrial Pollution,
Defra,
Zone 3C,
Ergon House
Horseferry Road,
London,
SW1P 2AL
Telephone: 0207 238 5558

14 November 2008

Dear Consultee,

Consultation on Better Regulation Review of Part B Activities

I am writing to invite views on our conclusions and proposals, resulting from our review of the appropriate level of regulation for installations regulated under the Local Authority Pollution Prevention and Control regimes (known as Part B).

The following documents may be found on Defra’s website: www.defra.gov.uk/corporate/consult/brr-partb-activities/

  • Consultation letter
  • Consultation document – Better Regulation Review of Part B Activities
    • Appendix A - review criteria as amended following first consultation, and summary of responses to first consultation
    • Appendix B - list of Part B activities with no EU directive 'cover'
    • Appendix C - paper tabled at the Industry Forum and Industrial Pollution Liaison Committee, attaching a draft questionnaire, January 2007
    • Appendix D - summary table of 7 regulatory options considered and 3 options rejected
    • Appendix E - additional activities proposed by those responding to the first consultation on the Review
    • Appendix F - summary of responses to the trade association questionnaire, May 2007
    • Appendix G - templates for each of the 62 sectors in scope of the review showing environmental impacts
    • Appendix H - standard cost model assessment
    • Appendix I - social impact assessments
    • Appendix J - small firms impact test
    • Appendix K - competition assessment
    • Appendix L - assessment of enforcement, sanctions and monitoring

We welcome your views and comments on the proposals. If you wish to obtain a copy of this consultation. Please contact Mark Cope, Local Authority Pollution Policy Team, Atmospheric Quality Implementation Programme (AQIP), Defra, Zone 3C, Ergon House, Horseferry Road, London, SW1P 2AL. Telephone: 0207 238 5558

Responses

Please mark all responses BETTER REGULATION REVIEW OF PART B ACTIVITIES and send, preferably by email to:

England:
control.pollution@defra.gsi.gov.uk
Or post to:
AQIP, Defra, Zone 3C, Ergon House, Horseferry Road, London, SW1P 2AL
Telephone: 0207 238 5558

Wales
RPPmailbox@Wales.gsi.gov.uk
Or post to:
Radioactivity and Pollution Prevention Branch, Welsh Assembly Government, Cathays Park, Cardiff, CF10 3NQ
Telephone 0292 082 1588 (Jacqui Murray)

Scotland
SEPATeam@Scotland.gsi.gov.uk
Or post to:
Scottish Government , Environmental Quality Directorate (Waste and Pollution Directorate, SEPA and Pollution), Area 1J (N) Victoria Quay, Edinburgh, EH6 6QQ
Telephone 0131 244 4966 (Susan Scott)

Responses should be received by 6th February 2009.

Consultation Criteria

This consultation is in line with the Code of practice on Consultations. This can be found at www.berr.gov.uk/bre/

When this consultation ends, we intend to put a copy of the responses in the Defra library at Ergon House, London. This is so that the public can see them. Also, members of the public may ask for a copy of responses under freedom of information legislation.

If you do not want your response - including your name, contact details and any other personal information – to be publicly available, please say so clearly in writing when you send your response to the consultation. Please note, if your computer automatically includes a confidentiality disclaimer, that won’t count as a confidentiality request.

Please explain why you need to keep details confidential. We will take your reasons into account if someone asks for this information under freedom of information legislation. But, because of the law, we cannot promise that we will always be able to keep those details confidential.

We will summarise all responses and place this summary on our website at www.defra.gov.uk/corporate/consult/ . This summary will include a list of names of organisations that responded but not people’s personal names, addresses or other contact details.

To see consultation responses and summaries, please contact the library at:
Defra
Information Resource Centre
Lower Ground Floor
Ergon House
17 Smith Square
London
SW1P 3JR

Telephone: 020-7238-6575
Email: defra.library@defra.gsi.gov.uk

Please give the library 24 hours’ notice. There is a charge for photocopying and postage.

If you have any comments or complaints about the consultation process, please address them to Marjorie Addo, Defra’s Consultation Co-ordinator, Area 7C Nobel House,17 Smith Square, London SW1P 3JR, or email consultation.coordinator@defra.gsi.gov.uk.

Thank you for your help in this matter. If you have any queries please contact us as above.

Yours faithfully,

Mark Cope
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

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