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2024 No. 354
Environmental Protection, England And Wales
The Environmental Protection (Disposal of Polychlorinated Biphenyls and other Dangerous Substances) (England and Wales) (Amendment) Regulations 2024
Made 12th March 2024
Laid before Parliament 13th March 2024
Laid before Senedd Cymru 13th March 2024
Coming into force 6th April 2024

The Secretary of State, in relation to England, and the Welsh Ministers, in relation to Wales, make these Regulations in exercise of the powers conferred by section 2(1) to (3) of the Pollution Prevention and Control Act 1999.

In accordance with section 2(4) of that Act, before making these Regulations, the Secretary of State and the Welsh Ministers have consulted—
(a) the Environment Agency;
(b) the Natural Resources Body for Wales;
(c) such bodies or persons appearing to them to be representative of the interests of local government, industry, agriculture and small businesses respectively as they have considered appropriate; and
(d) such other bodies or persons as they have considered appropriate.
Citation, commencement, extent and application
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(1) These Regulations may be cited as the Environmental Protection (Disposal of Polychlorinated Biphenyls and other Dangerous Substances) (England and Wales) (Amendment) Regulations 2024.
(2) These Regulations come into force on 6th April 2024.
(3) These Regulations—
(a) extend to England and Wales; and
(b) apply in England and Wales.
Amendment of the Environmental Protection (Disposal of Polychlorinated Biphenyls and other Dangerous Substances) (England and Wales) Regulations 2000
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(1) The Environmental Protection (Disposal of Polychlorinated Biphenyls and other Dangerous Substances) (England and Wales) Regulations 2000 are amended as follows.
(2) In regulation 4 (prohibition on holding irrespective of registration)—
(a) in paragraph (3A)—
(i) for “the fluids contain” substitute “it contains”;
(ii) in sub-paragraph (a), after “PCBs”, insert “within the fluids containing PCBs”;
(iii) in sub-paragraph (b), for “PCBs” substitute “fluids containing PCBs”;
(b) in paragraph (3C)—
(i) for “the fluids contain” substitute “it contains”;
(ii) in sub-paragraph (a), after “PCBs”, insert “within the fluids containing PCBs”;
(iii) in sub-paragraph (b), for “PCBs” substitute “fluids containing PCBs”;
(c) in paragraph (4)(a), for “a total volume of”, substitute “to reduce the total volume of fluids containing PCBs to”.
(3) In regulation 5 (labelling of contaminated equipment), in paragraph (3)—
(a) omit “the fluids contain”;
(b) in sub-paragraph (a), before “0.005%”, insert “within the equipment the fluids contain”;
(c) in sub-paragraph (b)—
(i) before “a total volume”, insert “the equipment contains”;
(ii) before “PCBs”, insert “fluids containing”;
(d) for “<0.05dm3” substitute “<0.05dm3””.
Robbie Moore
Parliamentary Under Secretary of State
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
12th March 2024
Lesley Griffiths
Minister for Rural Affairs and North Wales, and Trefnydd, one of the Welsh Ministers
12th March 2024