| The Environmental Industries Commission (EIC) is the lead trade association for UK’s environmental technology and services industry, with over 330 Member Companies. EIC represents the main environmental sectors (water, air, land, waste, transport, marine, climate change, etc). It has the support of leading politicians from all three major political parties, industrialists, trade union leaders, environmentalists, and academics.
Leading Members of the contaminated land remediation industry have today warned the Government is at risk of creating further confusion over environmental liability for the industry. The Government’s draft regulations and guidance have different definitions to the UK Part IIA liability regime which can only create further confusion and increase costs for the industry.
Commenting on the Environmental Industries Commission’s (EIC) Contaminated Land Working Group’s response to Defra’s consultation on draft regulations and guidance implementing the Environmental Liability Directive, Merlin Hyman, EIC Director, said:
“The Government’s draft regulations and guidance have different definitions to the UK Part IIA liability regime which can only create further confusion and increase costs for the industry.
“In a recent survey of the industry, EIC found that 20% of the costs and time of brownfield assessment and remediation, some £200 million, could be saved through regulatory improvements.
“The Government must ensure that regulation is consistent not confused.”
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