Environmental Acts and Regulations

For your convenience we have listed some of the major UK Acts and Regulations relating to the environment and we have provided links to more comprehensive legislation as listed by the UK Government NetRegs website.

Much of the UK's environmental legislation is in response to European Regulations and Directives. We have, therefore, provided links to the most recent developments from the EU on some major environmental themes.

Please see the terms on which we provide these links.

UK Environmental Legislation

• Environmental Protection Act - 1990/C43
  
  
• Environmental Protection (Duty of Care) Regulations - 1991/2839
  
  
• Clean Air Act - 1993/C11
  
  
• Environment Act - 1995/C25
  
  
• Pollution Prevention and Control Act - 1999/C24
  
  
• Pollution Prevention and Control (England and Wales) Regulations - 2000/1973
  Amended - 2001/503
  Amended - 2002/275
  Amended - 2002/1702
  
  
• Water Industry Act - 1991/C56
  
  
• Water Resources Act - 1991/C57
  
  
• Water Act - 2003/C37

Additional Environmental Legislation

• Air
• Chemicals
• Conservation
• Energy
• Land
• Noise and Statutory Nuisance
• Plant Protection
• Pollution Prevention and Control
• Radioactive Substances
• Waste
• Water

European Union Information on Environmental Themes

• Agriculture
• Acidification
• Air
• Air Quality
• Biodiversity
• Chemicals
• Climate
• Coasts
• Energy
• Fisheries
• Households
• Health
• Industry
• Nature
• Noise
• Ozone
• Resources
• Sea
• Transport
• Soil
• Urban
• Waste
• Water

Terms of Use

We endeavour to list the most up-to-date legislation. However, we cannot accept responsibility for delays in updating the site and we do not attempt to identify every minor amendment.
This site, therefore, must never be used as a substitute for professional legal advice.

We must also emphasize that EDP has no control over the content or security of sites to which we provide links and therefore we cannot guarantee their accuracy or relevance. We cannot accept liability for any loss or damage that might arise from your use of these sites.