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The Environmental Permitting Regs came into force on 6 April. Their
effect is to combine the existing separate regimes of waste
management licensing (WML) and pollution prevention and control (PPC)
into a single environmental permitting and compliance regime. Thus,
instead of a site potentially requiring a number of different permits and
licences, all will be covered by a single environmental permit.
In practice, the new EP Regs will have little impact for some time, since
there are no actions required to be taken to convert existing licences into
new-style environmental permits. The EP Regs automatically convert all
existing MWL and PPC permits into environmental permits (and any
existing WML and PPC permit applications will become environmental
permits if granted). For an introductory note see [2008] The In-House
Lawyer March p62. © Practical Lawyer
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