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词条 Environment Act 1995
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|long_title = An Act to provide for the establishment of a body corporate to be known as the Environment Agency and a body corporate to be known as the Scottish Environment Protection Agency; to provide for the transfer of functions, property, rights and liabilities to those bodies and for the conferring of other functions on them; to make provision with respect to contaminated land and abandoned mines; to make further provision in relation to National Parks; to make further provision for the control of pollution, the conservation of natural resources and the conservation or enhancement of the environment; to make provision for imposing obligations on certain persons in respect of certain products or materials; to make provision in relation to fisheries; to make provision for certain enactments to bind the Crown; to make provision with respect to the application of certain enactments in relation to the Isles of Scilly; and for connected purposes.
|year = 1995
|citation = 1995 c. 25
|introduced_by = John Gummer{{citation needed|date=October 2016}}
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The Environment Act 1995 (c 25) passed under the ministerial tutelage of John Gummer, is a United Kingdom Act of Parliament which created a number of new agencies and set new standards for environmental management.

Contents

The Environment Act 1995 set up:

  • The Environment Agency
  • The Scottish Environment Protection Agency (SEPA)
  • The National Park authorities

It also:

  • required the Secretary of State to prepare a National air quality strategy, and provided for the establishment of Air quality management areas
  • required the Secretary of State to prepare a National Waste Strategy, with power to impose obligations on producers in England & Wales.
  • required SEPA to prepare a National waste strategy.
  • Improved the current protection of hedgerows
  • Introduced new provisions in the Environmental Protection Act 1990 dealing with contaminated land and abandoned mines
  • Formalised the Sandford Principle

See also

  • English land law
  • UK environmental law
  • Hedgerows Regulations 1997

External links

  • {{UK-LEG|title=Environment Act 1995|type=ukpga|path=ukpga/1995/25}}
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5 : United Kingdom Acts of Parliament 1995|Environmental law in the United Kingdom|Waste legislation in the United Kingdom|1995 in British law|1995 in the environment

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