Our Environmental, Safety & Health team is pleased to share with you the latest edition of our 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. Take a moment to reflect on the key developments from August to September 2026.
The updates covered in this edition include (among others):
Corporate Waste Responsibility Bill: Proposed new corporate responsibilities for waste management
Plastic Packaging Tax: Preparing for the mass balance approach
UK REACH: Technical consultation on the Alternative Transitional Registration Model
Modernising corporate reporting: The shift from ESG reporting to sustainability-related financial disclosure
Call for evidence published for the Digital Product Record Policy
Work underway by the European Commission on legal acts regarding PPWR’s minimum plastic recycled content targets
Extended producer responsibility beyond waste: AG Kokott’s opinion proposing partial annulment of the Urban Wastewater Treatment Directive a watershed?
The Digital Product Passport Registry is now available
