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The Health and Safety Executive has produced ‘Best Practice’ guidance on Health and Safety for the Waste Industry in consultation with the Waste Industry Safety and Health Forum (WISH).

The Government has published a new consultation paper titled ‘Our Energy Challenge: Securing clean, affordable energy for the long term’. The consultation has a broad scope and in general will consider progress towards the goals set out in the 2003 Energy White Paper, ‘Our energy future – creating a low carbon economy’ and matters that were left open at the time.

The latest environment law bulletin summarises some of the recent developments in environment laws and policy of the United Kingdom and the European Union under appropriate headings.

The European Parliamentary Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Food Safety convened on 19 September 2012 to consider amendments to the European Commission’s proposed regulation on the safety of offshore oil and gas prospection, exploration and production activities.

Following issues with the analytical method on which the national allocation plan was based, the Government recently decided to terminate the UK Oil in Produced Water Trading Scheme.

On 20 August 2009 the Scottish Government launched a consultation on a “Zero Waste” plan for Scotland.

It seems a week cannot go by without some mention in the press of recent developments in shale gas, either in the U.S. or closer to home.

Electricity consumers are expected to bear much of the cost of the reduction of the UK’s CO2 emissions in Phase 2 (2008-2012) of the EU Emissions Trading Scheme (EU ETS). The UK Environment Secretary, David Miliband, announced on 29 June 2006 the cap on the annual carbon dioxide allowances that will be set under the UK's National Allocation Plan (NAP) for Phase 2.

The Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment (WEEE) Regulations (2006/3289) are to come into force on 2 January 2007. The Regulations implement the provisions of the WEEE Directive in the UK.

The statutory provisions dealing with contaminated land contained in Part IIA of the Environmental Protection Act 1990 need to be read in conjunction with the statutory and other guidance issued by, in the case of England, DEFRA.

The UK Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) has recently released the long-awaited waste policy review and accompanying action plan.

On 9 June 2010, following public consultation in 2009, the Scottish Government published its first Zero Waste Plan ("the Plan"), which sets out key actions and new targets to deal with the reduction, management and treatment of waste in Scotland.

In a recent case in the Commercial Court that will be of interest to trade financiers, problems arising from a poorly drafted document (and poor administration) are highlighted.

The High Court recently decided that the administrative receivers of an insolvent tenant could not be required to personally enter into an authorised guarantee agreement (AGA).

The Financial Services Authority ("FSA") has proposed new rules to regulate the sale of insurance policies as part of packaged bank accounts.

The OFT and certain Banks have agreed to bring a test case in the Commercial Court to resolve legal uncertainties surrounding the enforceability of unauthorised overdraft charges.

On 19 May 2009 the European Court of Justice (ECJ) ruled that while restrictions on ownership and operation of pharmacies constitute a restriction on freedom of establishment and the free movement of capital, these restrictions can be justified.

New guidance published by the UK’s National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE) suggests that thousands of lives, thus far lost to deadly conditions such as heart disease, could be saved through reduction of saturated fat and salt levels in food.