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Canada
- Federal – Notice of intent — Consultation by Environment and Climate Change Canada on the assessment of the status of the Monarch and two subspecies of the Western Bumble Bee (mckayi, occidentalis)
- Federal – Nuclear Security Regulations, 2023
- British Columbia – Province establishing permanent rodenticide restrictions
- British Columbia – Bill 41 – Workers’ Compensation Amendment Act (No. 2), 2022
- British Columbia – Consultation on proposed B.C. Exposure Limits based on the new or revised 2019 and 2020 ACGIH TLVs for selected chemical substances
- New Brunswick – Amendments to the Reduction of Greenhouse Gas Emissions Regulation under the Climate Change Act
- Northwest Territories – Climate Change and You: Assessing Climate Change Risks and Opportunities in the NWT
- Northwest Territories – Public engagement on a new Forest Act
- Ontario – Proposed updates to the regulation of development for the protection of people and property from natural hazards in Ontario
- Ontario – Proposed redesignation of land under the Oak Ridges Moraine Conservation Plan
- Ontario – Bill 23, More Homes Built Faster Act, 2022
- Ontario – Proposed amendments to the Oil, Gas and Salt Resources Act, to remove the prohibition on carbon sequestration
- Quebec – Mandatory reporting of certain emissions of contaminants into the atmosphere—Amendment
- Saskatchewan – Bill 91 – The Saskatchewan Employment (Part III) Amendment Act, 2022
- Saskatchewan – Review of the Workers’ Compensation Act
- Yukon – Extended producer responsibility (EPR) in the Yukon
United States
- Federal – Phasedown of Hydrofluorocarbons: Allowance Allocation Methodology for 2024 and Later Years
- Federal – Migratory Bird Hunting; Proposed 2023-24 Migratory Game Bird Hunting Regulations (Preliminary)
- Federal – Reporting Requirements for Nonemergency Events at Nuclear Power Plants
- Federal – Request for Information Regarding Categorical Exclusions
European Union
- Proposal for a Directive of the European Parliament and of the Council on ambient air quality and cleaner air for Europe (recast)
- Proposal for a Directive of the European Parliament and of the Council concerning urban wastewater treatment (recast)
- Proposal for a Regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council laying down management, conservation and control measures applicable in the Area covered under the Southern Indian Ocean Fisheries Agreement (SIOFA)
- Proposal for a Regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council on type-approval of motor vehicles and engines and of systems, components and separate technical units intended for such vehicles, with respect to their emissions and battery durability (Euro 7) and repealing Regulations (EC) No 715/2007 and (EC) No 595/2009
Canada
Federal
Notice of intent — Consultation by Environment and Climate Change Canada on the assessment of the status of the Monarch and two subspecies of the Western Bumble Bee (mckayi, occidentalis)
Published Date: 5 November 2022
Industry Sector: General Industry
Environment and Climate Change Canada is seeking comments on their assessment to update the Canadian list of wildlife species at risk. According to the government of Canada, the changes would notably:
- up-list the Monarch (Danaus plexippus) from the list of species of special concern to the list of endangered species;
- add the Western Bumble Bee mckayi subspecies (Bombus occidentalis mckayi) to the list of species of special concern; and
- add the Western Bumble Bee occidentalis subspecies (Bombus occidentalis occidentalis) to the list of threatened species.
The changes would be implemented by amending the Species at Risk Act.
Interested parties may submit comments until 20 December 2022.
Additional information is available here.
Nuclear Security Regulations, 2023
Published Date: 12 November 2022
Industry Sector: Utilities & Communications Industry
The government of Canada has announced its intention to update Canada’s rules pertaining to the security of nuclear materials, facilities, and substances. According to the government, the changes would notably:
- establish various performance-based requirements and objectives for ensuring nuclear facilities’ security, including “the application of traditional barriers/physical protection systems, the use of on-site and/or off-site armed response forces, the defence against design basis threat (DBT) sabotage events, the use of alternative measures, such as engineered systems and novel concepts of operation, safety- and security-by-design containment systems, or any combination thereof”;
- require nuclear facilities to conduct threat and risk assessments (TRAs) that cover both physical and cyber threats at least every five years and to maintain and update the TRAs every twelve months, or when the threats change, or following a nuclear security incident;
- establish various cybersecurity and sensitive information protection requirements;
- “update the security screening standard for facility access clearance to include new requirements similar to those in the Treasury Board of Canada Secretariat (TBS) Standard on Security Screening for site access status, site access clearance and enhanced security screening”; and
- require licensees to “ensure that security guards (non-nuclear security officers) are equipped, qualified and trained in accordance with provincial regulations [and] to develop and maintain procedures and instructions for these security guards.”
The changes would also align Canadian nuclear security rules with international recommendations, guidance, and best practices, including requiring:
- the development and promotion of nuclear security culture measures and practices;
- the “implementation of provisions for effective interfaces between nuclear safety, security, and safeguards at nuclear facilities” through the assessment and management of nuclear safety, security, and safeguards activities;
- “regular security exercise, at a minimum every five years, including during transport applications”;
- the “monitoring of nuclear substances at [non-high security sites] to prevent the unauthorized removal of nuclear substances and defend against insider threats”; and
- the implementation of “a two-person rule or equivalent measures to mitigate potential insider threats in the central alarm station at [high-security sites].”
The changes would be implemented by replacing the Nuclear Security Regulations with a new regulation.
Interested parties may submit comments until 11 January 2023.
Additional information is available here.
British Columbia
Province establishing permanent rodenticide restrictions
Published Date: 28 October 2022
Industry Sector: General Industry, Building Management & Maintenance
The Government of British Columbia has announced its intention to prohibit the sale and use of certain rodenticides that “pose a risk of poisoning to animals that eat poisoned rodents.”
According to the Ministry of Environment and Climate Change Strategy, the sale and use of second-generation anticoagulant rodenticides (SGARs) will be prohibited with certain exceptions for “select sectors deemed ‘essential services,’ such as hospitals and food production […] provided they meet the requirements or hire a licensed pest-control company contracted to do this work.” Such requirements will include adequate certification and licencing, using a site-specific integrated pest-management plan, and retaining records concerning the use of the plan.
SGARs are used as poisonous baits for rodents and typically contain one of the following active ingredients: brodifacoum, bromadiolone, difethialone. A list of SGAR products that will be affected by the ban is available here.
The changes are expected to come into effect in January 2023, through amendments to the Integrated Pest Management Regulation.
Bill 41 – Workers’ Compensation Amendment Act (No. 2), 2022
Published Date: 1 November 2022
Industry Sector: General Industry, Office Spaces, Building Management & Maintenance
The Government of British Columbia has announced its intention to update rules concerning workplace accommodations for injured employees. According to the government, the changes would:
- prohibit employers from discouraging employees or dependents “from making or maintaining applications for compensation or receiving compensation”;
- require employers to “cooperate in [an injured] worker’s early and safe return to, or continuation of, work” and require workers to cooperate (jointly, the “duty to cooperate”);
- require, in certain circumstances, employers “to offer work to an injured worker based on the worker’s fitness”;
- provide that “an employer fails to comply with the duties to offer work to an injured worker if the worker is terminated within a specified period, unless the employer can establish the termination is unrelated to the worker’s injury”;
- update “rules respecting annual adjustments to periodic payments of compensation”; and
- provide for the appointment, mandate of, and rules governing a fair practices commissioner.
The changes would also expand the role of the Workers’ Compensation Board to include the right to establish a “maximum percentage of disability in relation to non-traumatic hearing loss,” and the power to “reduce or suspend compensation if a worker fails to comply with the duty to cooperate”.
The changes would be made by amending the Workers Compensation Act.
Additional information is available here and here.
Consultation on proposed B.C. Exposure Limits based on the new or revised 2019 and 2020 ACGIH TLVs for selected chemical substances
Published Date: 17 November
Industry Sector: General Industry, Office Spaces, Building Management & Maintenance
WorkSafeBC is seeking feedback on proposed changes to exposure limits (ELs) for certain chemicals. Exposure limits are developed based on Threshold Limit Values (TLVs) which represent “the airborne concentration of a chemical substance where it is believed that nearly all workers may be exposed over a working lifetime and experience no adverse health effects.” TLVs are typically expressed “as an 8-hour time-weighted average (TWA), 15-minute short-term exposure limit (STEL), or ceiling limit.”
WorkSafeBC is proposing new 8-hour TWAs for Cyclohexane (110-83-8) and Methyl isobutyl carbinol (108-11-2). Existing ELs for 20 substances would be retained.
Interested parties may submit feedback until 20 January 2023.
Additional information is available here and here.
New Brunswick
Amendments to the Reduction of Greenhouse Gas Emissions Regulation under the Climate Change Act
Published Date: 24 November 2022
Industry Sector: General Industry
The government of New Brunswick has announced its intention to update greenhouse gas emissions rules. The changes would notably update the rules concerning certain regulated facilities’ compliance obligations for exceeding the specified emission limits requirement, including the rules for:
- calculating the amount to be paid by the regulated facilities for their unfulfilled compliance obligations by adding the fixed dollar amount per tonne of carbon dioxide equivalent of greenhouse gases for the compliance period of 2023 to 2030 and beyond;
- fund credits to be paid by the regulated facilities to the Climate Change Fund by adding the purchase price of fund credits per tonne of carbon dioxide equivalent of greenhouse gases for the compliance period of 2023 to 2030 and beyond; and
- update the values used to calculate emissions limits for regulated facilities.
The changes would be implemented by amending the Reduction of Greenhouse Gas Emissions Regulation – Climate Change Act.
Interested persons are invited to make comments until 8 December 2022.
Additional information is available here.
Northwest Territories
Climate Change and You: Assessing Climate Change Risks and Opportunities in the NWT
Published Date: 8 November 2022
Industry Sector: General Industry, Building Management & Maintenance
The Northwest Territories Government is inviting residents to complete a survey on the effects of climate change on their lives to inform future potential policy actions. The survey’s “questions cover changing weather patterns, concerns about impacts of climate change affecting the environment, food security and traditional activities like harvesting.”
Interested parties may complete the survey until 8 December 2022.
Additional information is available here.
Public engagement on a new Forest Act
Published Date: 21 November 2022
Industry Sector: General Industry, Building Management & Maintenance
The Government of the Northwest Territories is seeking feedback on proposed forest management rule changes. According to the government, the new rules would:
- establish the roles and responsibilities of “Renewable Resource Boards, co-management committees, the Minister, and officers”;
- allow the government to change the dates of wildfire season “if there is danger of wildfires in a given year outside of that time period”;
- require proponents of industrial activities in or near forests “(such as land clearing, wood harvesting, oil and gas exploration, etc.)” to submit a wildfire prevention and preparedness plan;
- establish requirements for putting out and controlling fires;
- prohibit activities that may interfere with firefighting;
- provide that enforcement personnel may order the removal of flammable materials or debris “that could cause harm to the forest environment”;
- remove certain permitting requirements for Aboriginal or treaty right holders;
- establish permitting and/or licencing requirements for cutting and transporting timber, clearing forests, harvesting forest resources, forest research, running mills, and measuring amounts and quality of timber; and
- establish specific permitting rules for burning activities.
These changes would take effect by enacting a new Forest Act, which will replace the Forest Management Act and Forest Protection Act.
Interested parties may submit comments until 21 December 2022.
Additional information is available here and here.
Ontario
Proposed updates to the regulation of development for the protection of people and property from natural hazards in Ontario
Published Date: 25 October 2022
Industry Sector: General Industry
The Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources and Forestry has announced its intention to develop new rules governing conservation authorities’ permitting of development and other activities. According to the Ministry, the rules would:
- regulate the province’s 36 conservation authorities under a consistent framework (they are currently individually governed);
- “focus permitting decisions on matters related to the control of flooding and other natural hazards and the protection of people and property”;
- “[update] the definition of ‘watercourse’ from an identifiable depression in which water regularly or continuously flows, to a defined channel having a bed, and banks or sides”;
- “[update] the ‘other areas’ in which the prohibitions on development apply to within 30 metres of all wetlands”;
- “[streamline] approvals for low-risk activities, which may include exempting the need for a permit if certain requirements or conditions are met (i.e., requiring that an activity be registered with an authority)”; and
- “[require] conservation authorities to request any information or studies needed prior to the confirmation of a complete application” for a conservation authority permit.
The Ministry is also seeking feedback on a proposal to allow development projects that are authorized under the Planning Act to be exempt from requiring a permit under the Conservation Authorities Act.
These changes would be implemented by enacting a new regulation.
Interested persons are invited to make comments until 30 December 2022.
Additional information is available here and here.
Proposed redesignation of land under the Oak Ridges Moraine Conservation Plan
Published Date: 4 November 2022
Industry Sector: General Industry
The Ministry of Municipal Affairs is seeking feedback on its intention to revise land use rules to accommodate Ontario’s residential development plan.
According to the government, the changes would notably redesignate certain lands within the Oak Ridges Moraine (specifically, the “[land] located in the Township of King east of Dufferin Street, south of Miller’s Sideroad and west of Bathurst Street”) from “Countryside” (areas of rural land use such as agriculture, recreational, rural settlements, residential development, mineral aggregate operations, and parks and open space) to “Settlement Area” (areas designated for urban development, permitting a range of residential, commercial, industrial, and institutional uses).
These changes would be implemented by amending the Oak Ridges Moraine Conservation Plan.
Interested persons are invited to make comments until 4 December 2022.
Additional information is available here, here, and here.
Bill 23, More Homes Built Faster Act, 2022
Published Date: 10 November 2022
Industry Sector: General Industry, Building Management & Maintenance
The Government of Ontario has announced its intention to update various rules concerning land conservation and permitting development activities in view of its Housing Action Supply Plan. According to the government, the changes would:
- require conservation authorities “to conduct public consultations before disposing of lands that meet certain criteria”;
- provide that certain activities that are prohibited by a conservation authority may be permitted if the activities are part of authorized development activities under the Planning Act;
- require that decision-making authorities consider “the effects on the control of unstable soil or bedrock” instead of the “effects on the control of pollution and the conservation of land” in development project permitting decisions;
- prohibit persons “from continuing to carry out a development project if they have not entered into an agreement by the [prescribed] timeline”;
- revise various rules concerning development charges for certain residential projects;
- allow the Minister of Citizenship and Multiculturalism to review determinations on Crown properties identified as having cultural heritage value or interest;
- exempt certain government and public entities “from having to comply with the heritage standards and guidelines in respect of a particular property” if the exemption may “potentially advance one or more provincial priorities”;
- provide that the process for objecting to the inclusion of a property in the register applies “to non-designated properties that were included in the register as of June 30, 2021” and “specify circumstances that require the removal of non-designated property from the register”;
- expand the powers of the Ontario Land Tribunal to dismiss proceedings;
- add rules concerning development on parcels of urban residential land;
- provide that pits and quarries may be exempted from the prohibition on official plan amendment requests within 2 years of the plan’s effective date;
- “provide that exterior design [of a building, including “the character, scale, appearance and design features of buildings, and their sustainable design”] is no longer a matter that is subject to site plan control”; – make various changes to parkland requirements for development projects; and
- introduce new legislation to expedite developments of and improvements to sewage control facilities.
The changes would be made by amending various pieces of legislation, including the Conservation Authorities Act, Municipal Act, 2001, Ontario Heritage Act, Ontario Land Tribunal Act, 2021, Ontario Underground Infrastructure Notification System Act, 2012, and Planning Act.
The government is also conducting specific consultations on certain related changes, including “conserving natural heritage”, permitting development activities in conservation areas, and redesignating portions of the Oak Ridges Moraine for urban development.
Various updates to the Building Code have also been proposed in support of these changes. Additional information, including instructions for participation in these consultations, is available here and here.
Additional information on this proposal is available here and here.
Proposed amendments to the Oil, Gas and Salt Resources Act, to remove the prohibition on carbon sequestration
Published Date: 23 November 2022
Industry Sector: Mining & Minerals Industry, Oil & Gas Industry
The Ministry of Natural Resources and Forestry is seeking feedback on its intention to enable geologic carbon storage in the province. According to the government, the changes would be implemented in several phases throughout the coming years. The changes in this first phase would notably allow entities to conduct geologic carbon sequestration activities.
This change would be implemented by amending the Oil, Gas and Salt Resources Act.
Interested persons are invited to make comments until 9 January 2023.
Additional information is available here and here.
Quebec
Mandatory reporting of certain emissions of contaminants into the atmosphere—Amendment
Published Date: 10 November 2022
Industry Sector: General Industry
The government of Quebec has announced its intention to update the greenhouse gas emissions reporting rules. According to the Quebec government, the changes would notably:
- relax the frequency of required visits to certain emitters’ establishments or enterprises as a part of greenhouse gas emission report verification;
- “[update the] default greenhouse gas emission factors for Canadian provinces and certain North American markets”;
- amend the protocols concerning the methods for the estimation of missing sampling or measurement data required for the calculation of emissions and “the specific information to be reported by fuel distributors”;
- make various changes to harmonize the reporting requirements with the Regulation respecting a cap-and-trade system for greenhouse gas emission allowances;
- “[provide for] mandatory reporting for emitters registered in the cap-and-trade system for greenhouse gas emission allowances on the basis of a demonstration that the threshold for voluntary registration in the system under the Regulation respecting a cap-and-trade system for greenhouse gas emission allowances will be reached or exceeded”; and
- “[extend] the period during which an emitter must report emissions where the emitter has applied […] to remain registered in the cap-and-trade system for greenhouse gas emission allowances despite the fact that the emissions have been below the reporting threshold for 4 consecutive years.”
The changes would be made by amending the Regulation respecting mandatory reporting of certain emissions of contaminants into the atmosphere.
Interested parties are invited to submit comments until 10 December 2022.
Additional information is available here.
Saskatchewan
Bill 91 – The Saskatchewan Employment (Part III) Amendment Act, 2022
Published Date: 14 November 2022
Industry Sector: General Industry, Office Spaces, Building Management & Maintenance
The Government of Saskatchewan has announced its intention to update certain rules governing occupational health and safety.
According to the government, the changes would revise the definition of “worker” to include secondary and post-secondary students, so they are covered by occupational health and safety rules; require every employer “to have a violence policy and investigate incidents of violence and harassment in the workplace”; and “clarify the work and authority of occupational health officers to take photos and recordings during workplace inspections.”
The changes would be made by amending the Saskatchewan Employment Act.
Additional information is available here.
Review of the Workers’ Compensation Act
Published Date: 22 November 2022
Industry Sector: General Industry, Office Spaces, Building Management & Maintenance
The Saskatchewan Ministry of Labour Relations and Workplace Safety is seeking feedback on proposed changes to the province’s workers’ compensation system. A Committee of Review has prepared a report with 34 recommendations for changes to the system, including to:
- cover work-based learning programs in workers’ compensation regulations, and provide compensation benefits to students;
- increase the amounts payable to permanently injured workers, and update the calculation method for such payments;
- “provide death benefits […] to the estate of a deceased worker who has no dependents, no parents or who has parents, non-dependent child”;
- update the industries and occupations that workers’ compensation regulations apply to;
- establish a dispute mechanism for workers who object to the sharing of their medical information with their employer;
- “establish better proactive treatment programs for psychological injuries”;
- “create a stand-alone chronic pain policy”; and
- improve customer service and communication at the Workers’ Compensation Board.
The changes would be made by amending The Workers’ Compensation Act, 2013 and various subordinate regulations.
Interested parties may submit comments until 31 January 2023.
Additional information is available here, here, and here.
Yukon
Extended producer responsibility (EPR) in the Yukon
Published Date: 25 October 2022
Industry Sector: General Industry
The Government of Yukon has announced its intention to introduce rules to extend the responsibilities of large producers that sell products and packaging. The rules would notably establish rules for certain producers pertaining to the end-of-life management of their products, including “rules on roles and responsibilities, program plan requirements, and reporting.” The prioritized categories to be managed under the extended producer responsibility (EPR) rules would be printed paper and packaging, household hazardous waste, and automotive wastes such as waste oil and waste antifreeze and their containers.
Extended producer responsibility, according to the government, “is a ‘producer pay’ system in which companies that produce certain products and packaging are responsible for the cost to recycle or dispose of it.”
These changes would be implemented by enacting a new regulation.
Interested persons may submit comments or complete a survey until 27 January 2023.
Additional information is available here and here.
United States
Federal
Phasedown of Hydrofluorocarbons: Allowance Allocation Methodology for 2024 and Later Years
Published Date: 3 November 2022
Industry Sector: General Industry
The United States Environmental Protection Agency is seeking feedback on prosed rules that would “establish the methodology for allocating hydrofluorocarbon [(HFC)] production and consumption allowances for the calendar years of 2024 through 2028.” Other changes would include updates to the consumption baseline based on relevant data, and codification of rules for “how [consumption] allowances must be expended for import of regulated substances.”
The rules would also “confirm that entities may confer or transfer allowances as soon as [they] are allocated,” and introduce “a new requirement to report emissions from HFC production facilities.” Affected parties may include those who produce, transport, use as feedstock or process agents, reclaim, or recycle HFCs.
A list of potentially affected industrial categories is available here.
Interested parties may submit comments until 19 December 2022.
Additional information is available here.
Migratory Bird Hunting; Proposed 2023-24 Migratory Game Bird Hunting Regulations (Preliminary)
Published Date: 14 October 2022
Industry Sector: General Industry, Public Administration & Institutions
The United States Fish and Wildlife Service (“the Service”) has proposed hunting regulations for specified migratory game birds for the 2023-24 hunting season.
According to the Service, the “proposed rule provides the regulatory schedule and describes the proposed regulatory alternatives for the 20234-24 general duck seasons and preliminary proposals that vary from the 2022-23 hunting season regulations”. It contains rules that would apply to hunting of “the avian families Anatidae (ducks, geese, and swans); Columbidae (doves and pigeons); Gruidae (cranes); Rallidae (rails, coots, and gallinules); and Scolopacidae (woodcock and snipe).”
Interested parties may submit comments until 5 December 2022.
Additional information is available here and here.
Reporting Requirements for Nonemergency Events at Nuclear Power Plants
Published Date: 9 November 2022
Industry Sector: Utilities & Communications Industry
The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) is requesting feedback on proposed changes to rules concerning nonemergency event notifications. Specifically, the NRC is evaluating whether existing reporting requirements for nonemergency events for operational nuclear power reactors “present an unnecessary reporting burden”, and whether those requirements may be “reduced or eliminated when they do not have a commensurate safety benefit.”
The NRC also invites feedback on questions concerning the Cumulative Effects of Regulation (CER), which are listed here.
Interested parties may submit comments until 9 January 2023.
Additional information is available here.
Request for Information Regarding Categorical Exclusions
Published Date: 15 November 2022
Industry Sector: General Industry
The United States Department of Energy (DOE) is seeking feedback on possible changes to the types of activities that can be subject to a categorical exclusion environmental impact review. According to the DOE, “a categorical exclusion is a category of actions that a federal agency has determined […] normally do not have a significant effect on the human environment [and] do not require preparation of an environmental assessment or environmental impact statement.”
DOE is specifically requesting information to “identify activities associated with [the] furtherance of clean energy projects and clean energy infrastructure that should be considered for new or revised categorical exclusions.”
Interested parties may submit their responses until 30 December 2022.
Additional information is available here.
European Union
Proposal for a Directive of the European Parliament and of the Council on ambient air quality and cleaner air for Europe (recast)
Published Date: 26 October 2022
Industry Sector: General Industry
The European Commission has proposed a new Directive on clean air standards to avoid the accumulation of excessive pollution concentrations, to align EU air quality standards with recommendations of the World Health Organization, and to improve the current legislative framework related to punitive measures, and public information.
According to its content, the proposal mainly includes provisions in the following aspects:
- “Assessment of ambient air quality and deposition rates”;
- “Ambient air quality management”;
- Action and management plans, including “air quality plans”, and “short-term action plans” when pollutant levels are likely to exceed one or more of the specified alert thresholds; and
- “Information and reporting” obligations.
Additional information about this initiative is available here and here.
Proposal for a Directive of the European Parliament and of the Council concerning urban wastewater treatment (recast)
Published Date: 26 October 2022
Industry Sector: General Industry, Building Management & Maintenance
The European Commission has proposed a new Directive on the Urban Wastewater Treatment policy to address the new social needs. According to its content, the proposal focuses on:
- expanding the objective of the rules to “include in addition to environmental protection, the protection of human health, the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions, improving the governance and transparency of the sector, better access to sanitation and – following the recent COVID crisis – the regular monitoring of parameters relevant to public health in urban wastewater”;
- adding new requirements and the relevant definitions, “such as ‘urban runoff’, ‘storm water overflows’ (SWOs), ‘combined and separate sewers’, ‘tertiary and quaternary treatments’, ‘micro-pollutant’, ‘sanitation’, ‘antimicrobial resistance’”;
- setting out the requirement “to establish locally integrated urban wastewater management plans to combat pollution from rain waters (urban runoff and storm water overflow)” and rules on municipal wastewater treatment;
- introducing extended producer and importer responsibility and minimum requirements for producer responsibility organizations;
- introducing the obligation to achieve energy neutrality of certain treatment facilities at the national level and to conduct energy audits of municipal wastewater treatment plants;
- providing rules for wastewater discharge; and
- providing rules regarding compensation and penalties.
Additional information about this initiative is available here.
Proposal for a Regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council laying down management, conservation and control measures applicable in the Area covered under the Southern Indian Ocean Fisheries Agreement (SIOFA)
Published Date: 4 November 2022
Industry Sector: Fishing, Hunting, and Trapping Industry
The European Commission has proposed a new Regulation for Union fishing vessels to implement in EU law the conservation, management and control measures adopted under the Southern Indian Ocean Fisheries Agreement (SIOFA). According to its content, the proposal focuses on:
- authorization of fishing vessels and issuance of fishing authorizations;
- bottom-fishing measures;
- marine species protection measures;
- monitoring and control measures;
- control of third country vessels in Member State ports and in the high seas; and
- enforcement and data collection and reporting rules.
Additional information about this initiative is available here and here.
Proposal for a Regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council on type-approval of motor vehicles and engines and of systems, components and separate technical units intended for such vehicles, with respect to their emissions and battery durability (Euro 7) and repealing Regulations (EC) No 715/2007 and (EC) No 595/2009
The European Commission has proposed a new Regulation to establish technical requirements for the emission type-approval of motor vehicles, engines, systems, components and separate technical units used in such vehicles.
According to its content, the proposed Regulation “lays down rules for the initial emission type approval, conformity of production, in-service conformity, market surveillance, the durability of pollution control systems and traction batteries, on-board monitoring systems, security provisions to limit tampering and cybersecurity measures, and the accurate determination of CO2 emissions, electric range, fuel and energy consumption and energy efficiency.”
Additional information about this initiative is available here and here.
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