Our Environmental, Safety & Health team is pleased to share with you the third edition of our monthly newsletter, frESH Law Horizons: Key Developments in UK & EU Environment, Safety and Health Law and Procedure; providing bite-size updates on EU and UK law, procedure and policy.
This month’s edition includes the following:
First failure to prevent bribery case.
The Office for Product Safety and Standards (Product Safety Office) has carried out its first enforcement action. It has also published a Code of Practice.
The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) has released advice that warns against “off-the-shelf” manual handling training.
Poundworld has been fined more than £1.1 million following conviction for food safety and health and safety breaches.
Continued press focus on food hygiene standards at UK meat plants.
The Environment Agency (EA) has published a list of enforcement undertakings that it accepted between 1 September 2017 and 31 January 2018.
INEOS Shale has been granted permission by the Oil and Gas Authority (OGA) to legally challenge the National Trust's refusal to allow land access for seismic testing.
Climate Change Agreement (CCA) case of Geo Speciality Chemicals v. Environment Agency.
25p "latte levy" on disposable coffee cups has been questioned by the government.
The Dutch shipping company Seatrade and two of its directors were found guilty by a Dutch court and fined up to €750,000 for breaching the rules on transfrontier shipment of waste (TFS).
The EA has accepted an enforcement undertaking offer from Anglian Water of a £50,000 donation to a wildlife trust charity.
Plymouth Skip Hire, narrowly escaped having an existing suspended sentence for a driving offence activated by the Crown Court, as a result of illegal waste activities.
The EA has confirmed final details of the new charging scheme for environmental permits.
The compliance committee of the Aarhus Convention on environmental justice, part of the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe, has agreed to hear a complaint about the UK’s adherence to the convention.
