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These regulations amend the Noise Emission in the Environment by Equipment for use Outdoors Regulations 2001 in Northern Ireland only.
Rules on equipment for use outdoors are updated to reflect changes to EU rules since Brexit. Northern Ireland remains subject to EU rules on products.
These regulations brought further sections of the Environment Act 2021 into force in Wales.
The Welsh Ministers now publish and maintain lists of authorised fuels and exempted fireplaces authorised for use in smoke control areas. New legislation is no longer required to update these lists.
These regulations amend the Official Controls (Extension of Transitional Periods) Regulations 2021.
The amending regulations delay full import checks on qualifying plants, plant products and certain other objects arriving at designated West Cost Ports, where these goods arose from the EU, Liechtenstein or Switzerland. This delay is to operate until 31 January 2027.
Directive (EU) 2025/794 amended the Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive (CSRD) (EU) 2022/2464 and Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive (CSDDD) (EU) 2024/1760.
Deadlines for mandatory corporate sustainability reporting and due diligence obligations will be deferred. EU Member States are required to transpose these changes into national law by 31 December 2025.
These regulations will amend the Deposit and Return Scheme for Scotland Regulations 2020.
The start of the deposit and return scheme will be deferred until 1 October 2027. The scope and rules of the scheme will be modified to bring it into line with the English and Northern Irish system. For example, glass will no longer be within the scheme's scope.
A joint statement released following the UK/EU summit in May set out commitments for a strategic partnership between the UK and EU.
Proposals relevant to the environment include linking the UK and EU Emissions Trading Systems and establishing a common UK-EU sanitary and phytosanitary zone, which would reduce checks on animal and plant products.
Draft legislation concerning the proposed UK Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism (UK CBAM) has been published as part of a consultation.
The UK CBAM will apply a tax on goods imported to the UK from the aluminium, cement, fertiliser, hydrogen and iron and steel sectors on or after 1 January 2027. Importers of CBAM goods would be required to pay the CBAM tax on the respective embodied emissions of the goods they import.
This order amended the Town and Country Planning (General Permitted Development) (England) Order 2015.
The amendments expand and update permitted development rights concerning electric vehicle charging equipment and domestic air source heat pumps.
