frESH Law Horizons – Key Developments in UK and EU Environment, Safety and Health Law Procedure and Policy

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