Open consultation

Applying Environment Act 2021 civil sanctions

• From: Environment Agency
• Published: 8 January 2025

Applies to England

Summary

We want your views on a proposed update to the Environment Agency's enforcement and sanctions policy.

This consultation is being held on another website.

This consultation closes at
11:59pm on 5 March 2025

Consultation description

This consultation focuses on the changes we need to make to our enforcement and sanctions policy for new civil sanction powers available to us after their introduction through the Environment Act 2021.

We want to add a new annex (Annex 4) to our enforcement and sanctions policy to explain our approach to using these powers. In particular, for the Producer Responsibility Obligations (Packaging and Packaging Waste) Regulations 2024, which came into force on 1 January 2025.

We are not consulting on the principles of the main enforcement and sanctions policy, nor its Annex 1, Annex 2 or Annex 3.

We will consider your feedback and use this to refine our proposals.

Documents

Applying Environment Act 2021 civil sanctions

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Published 8 January 2025