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January 2020
Our Environmental, Safety & Health team is pleased to share with you our monthly newsletter, frESH Law Horizons: Key Developments in Environment, Safety and Health Law and Procedure; providing bite-size updates on EU and UK law and policy.
This month’s edition includes:
- A consultation was launched on amended FSA technical guidance for allergen labelling for foods prepacked for direct sale
- TV cameras are set to broadcast sentencing remarks from the Crown Court
- A building safety regulator is to be established as part of the HSE
- A successful appeal was made against landfill tax on “fluff”
- EA published the latest civil sanctions accepted in respect of environmental breaches
- Brothers receive jail sentences for waste electronic and electrical equipment (WEEE) fraud
- A company was fined £200,000 over a major fire at its waste facility
- The government publishes a House of Commons Library Briefing Paper on plastic waste in the UK
- Landmark Dutch legal ruling on climate change
- The European Chemicals Agency (ECHA) to prepare a list of chemicals safe for use in contact with drinking water
- ECHA adds four new substances to the REACH candidate list
- Environmental developments to expect in the UK in 2020