Consultation outcome

Extending civil sanction variable monetary penalty powers

• From: Environment Agency
• Published: 15 August 2023
• Last updated: 11 December 2023 — See all updates

Applies to England

This consultation has concluded

Detail of outcome

As a result of the responses received, we have:

• published our updated enforcement and sanctions policy and its annex 1
• adopted the proposed calculation method in line with the sentencing guideline for environmental offending

Feedback received

Extending civil sanction variable monetary penalty powers: response document

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Detail of feedback received

We ran this consultation on our Citizen Space consultation website and on GOV.UK for 8 weeks, from 14 August 2023 to 8 October 2023.

The response document sets out:

• the questions we asked in the consultation
• a summary of the responses we received
• what we will do as a result of the consultation

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Original consultation

Summary

We want your views on our proposals for when we will use variable monetary penalties and how we will calculate them.

This consultation was held on another website.

This consultation ran from
3pm on 15 August 2023 to 11:59pm on 8 October 2023

Consultation description

Following the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs’ Strengthening environmental civil sanctions consultation, the Environment Agency want your views on how they propose to:

• remove the cap for variable monetary penalties in the Environmental Civil Sanctions (England) Order 2010 from its current amount of £250,000
• introduce powers to issue variable monetary penalties for the Environmental Permitting (England and Wales) Regulations (EPR) 2016

Documents

Extending civil sanction variable monetary penalty powers consultation

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Published 15 August 2023
Last updated 11 December 2023 + show all updates

1. 11 December 2023

   Added the consultation response document.

2. 15 August 2023

   First published.