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The Corporate Manslaughter and Homicide Act 2007
18th January 2010
The Corporate Manslaughter and Corporate Homicide Act 2007 came into force in the UK on 6 April 2008 and sets out a new offence for convicting an organisation (rather than individuals*) where a gross failure in the way activities were managed or organised results in a person’s death.
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The Regulatory Reform (Fire Safety) Order 2005
19th November 2009
The Regulatory Reform (Fire Safety) Order 2005 came into force in England and Wales on 1 April 2006 and introduced compulsory fire risk assessments for the first time.
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The Carbon Reduction Commitment
17th November 2009
The Carbon Reduction Commitment now known as the CRC Energy Efficiency Scheme, is the UK’s first mandatory carbon trading scheme due to commence in 2010. It is central to the UK’s strategy for improving energy efficiency and reducing carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions, as set out in the Climate Change Act 2008. It is likely to affect around 5,000-20,000 public and private sector organisations in the UK including banking, retail, local authorities (including education), property, transport, manufacturing and health and insurance.
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Planning and Policy Statement No. 9
29th January 2009
The suite of national planning guidance has had a ‘nature conservation’ volume since 1994 and PPS9 (Biodiversity and Geological Conservation) has recently been introduced to replace PPG9 (Nature Conservation).
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The Definition of Waste: Development Industry Code of Practice (CoP)
22nd January 2009
Until recently the Environment Agency (EA) applied a very strict interpretation of the definition of waste to the development industry. This meant that they practically regarded all excavated materials, soils and demolition materials as waste. Developers argued that this was acting as a barrier to the development of Brownfield sites.
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Site Waste Management Plans Update
30th April 2008
Disposal of site waste not only entails the cost at the landfill gate but also includes haulage, labour, notifications, paperwork and the cost of the material itself. Of the 92 million tonnes of demolition and construction waste disposed of each year, a staggering 13 million tonnes is unused new material disposed of because it is defective or damaged on site.
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