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As Climate Finance Week Ireland 2023 continues, additional EU Taxonomy Delegated Acts were, as expected, published in the Official Journal this week reflecting the continuing...

In March 2011, the Irish High Court temporarily reversed a 10 year practice of imposing personal liability on company officers to pay for environmental clean up of the company’s waste.

The 2011 Act sets a framework for significant increases to the landfill levy, in a move to further divert waste from landfill and to incentivise the development of other types of waste facilities.

The Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) has consulted on a revised Waste Management Plan for England ("the Plan").

As Northern Ireland continues to progress towards its net zero targets, energy policy is evolving to reflect a broader, more diversified approach to sustainability.

Operators of landfill sites are obliged to charge fees for disposal of waste which must be sufficient to cover.

In a judgment issued on 25 July 2018, the CJEU followed the earlier Opinion of Advocate General Tanchev and held that although measures in a management plan would at a minimum maintain and also potentially increase...

In its Programme for Government 2025, the Irish Government plans to enact legislation to accelerate the roll out of district heating systems in Ireland.

Since the commencement of the statutory adjudication regime in Ireland in July 2016, the courts have been hugely supportive of adjudication.

As trusted legal advisers to one of Ireland's leading recycling companies Metcollect we in Spencer West Northern Ireland have had to get to grips with all of the legal requirements for a business...

In a judgement delivered 12 January 2026, in the case of Tenderbids Ltd trading As Bastion V Electrical Waste Management Ltd Mr Justice Simons dealt with the question of ‘Smash and Grab' adjudications.

In Tenderbids Limited t/a Bastion v Electrical Waste Management Limited [2026] IEHC 5, the High Court (Court) rejected that "smash and grab" adjudication applies under the Construction Contracts Act 2013...

One of the most anticipated changes in 2024 will be the enactment of the Planning and Development Bill 2023, which was published on 21 November 2023.

M50 Skip Hire & Recycling Limited, a waste collection operator in Dublin, lost its recent High Court challenge of a decision of the Commissioner for Environmental Information to grant access to certain of the Company's waste destination data ...

Construction has not been easy in Ireland. Tight margins, boom-bust decades, and now a labyrinth of legislation to try and navigate in between managing the day job on site.

The EU's Ecodesign for Sustainable Products Regulation has banned the destruction of unsold apparel and footwear from July 2026, forcing retailers to pivot from recycling and disposal to donation, resale and reuse strategies. With mandatory public reporting on unsold stock disposal and stricter policing of environmental marketing claims now in force, consumer-facing businesses across Ireland and the EU face a fundamental shift in how they manage inventory, report waste, and communicate sustainability creden

The Council of the EU's position on the proposal to simplify due diligence rules for batteries has been approved by the Committee of Permanent Representatives.