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November 2021
Our Environmental, Safety & Health team is pleased to share with you the latest 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.
The updates covered in this month’s edition include (among others):
- COVID-19: new controls and regulations
- OPSS publishes its call for evidence response on reforming product safety law
- Government announces review into HGV driver training
- Age Assurance (Minimum Standards) Bill receives second reading in House of Lords
- Company fined for failures to protect staff working in the community
- HSE launches Working Minds campaign
- Thames Water fined £4 million for sewage discharge
- Following COP26, the government has made a number of related announcements
- The Environment Bill receives Royal Assent
- DEFRA consults on single-use plastic bans for England
- HMRC publishes updated guidance and draft regulations for UK plastic packaging tax
- The European Commission adopted a proposal for a regulation on deforestation-free products
- Member states back new rules on industrial emissions from large combustion plants
- European Commission removes REACH authorisation exemptions for uses of DEHP in medicinal products and medical devices
- EFSA consults on phthalates in food contact materials