Consultation on proposed amendments to the Hazardous Waste (England and Wales) Regulations 2005

13 November 2008

Dear Consultee,

Consultation on proposed amendments to the Hazardous Waste (England and Wales) Regulations 2005 – “the Regulations”

I am writing to invite views on the enclosed consultation pack on proposed amendments to the Regulations. The consultation consists of  a consultation document, a partial impact assessment and a draft set of amending regulations. I would welcome your responses on the specific questions that are asked in the body of the consultation document, and would be particularly interested in any comments you have on the estimated costs and benefits that are included in the Partial Impact Assessment.

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

  • List of consultees
  • Consultation document
  • Impact assessment
  • Draft statutory instrument

We welcome your views and comments on the proposals. If you wish to obtain a copy of this consultation. Please contact the Hazardous Waste Unit by email at waste.management@defra.gsi.gov.uk

Responses

Please send responses preferably by email to: waste.management@defra.gsi.gov.uk

By post:

Hazardous and International Waste Unit
Defra
Area 6D, Ergon House
c/o 17 Smith Square
London
SW1P 3JR

If you have any queries relating to this consultation please email via the addresses above or call 020 7238 4335.

For your convenience a list of the full proposals and other specific questions asked throughout the document is provided in section 15 of the consultation document. 

Responses should be received by Friday 6 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.

 

Hazardous and International Waste Unit
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

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