scottish environment protection agency · scottish environment protection agency a presentation to...
TRANSCRIPT
SCOTTISH ENVIRONMENT
PROTECTION AGENCY
A PRESENTATION TO THE
OGUK HSE CONFERENCE
November 2019
Janice Milne, Head of Energy
Statutory Purpose
Protect and improve the environment
Create health and well-being benefits
Create sustainable economic growth
Businesses, societies and nations which thrive in the
21st century will have found ways to prosper within our
environmental capacity
21st century environmental challenges
Investors
Supporting “beyond compliance” innovation
Compliance is not up for discussion
Compliance
Existing non-compliance
Profitabilityopportunity
A sustainable economy
Regulating for prosperity within planetary
constraints
Everyone involved with waste must take all reasonable & applicable measures to
(among other things):
n Prevent escape of waste
n Transfer waste only to an authorised person
n Accompany transfer with written description of the waste sufficient to enable others to avoid
contravention of Duty of Care
Duty of Care is breached irrespective of whether pollution is emitted to environment or not. Criminal
offence is failure to take reasonable steps, not the resulting damage.
Still possible to breach after having transferred waste e.g. failing to take reasonable steps to detect and
prevent breaches by the carrier
Everyone in waste chain is subject to Duty of Care
EPA Section 34(1): Duty of Care
EPA Section 34(1): Duty of Care
Examples:
n Producers shouldn’t transfer waste to suspected ‘cowboys’ as they could be prosecuted for DoC breach if the waste is illegally disposed of.
n Carriers should reject improperly packaged waste, since it will have responsibility under DoC if something goes wrong.
• Multiple public sector agencies
• Multiple pieces of legislation
• Cross-cutting issues
• Conflicting/overlapping demands
• Risk averse
SEPA
HSE
EA
OGA
Local Authorities
Other stakeholders
Other regulators?
MCA
Marine Scotland
OPRED
OFFSHORE ONSHORE
DecomRegHub
“Streamlining industry’s regulatory journey from plug
& abandonment to end of waste”
• Understand each other better
• Operate in a coordinated fashion
• Identify regulatory interface pinch points
and facilitate resolution
• Supports decommissioning
• Create regulatory clarity for operators &
supply chain
Regulatory Forum
Virtual Hub
DecomRegHub
What has the project done so far?
1. Brought partner organisations together at
multiple levels
2. Programme of user research
3. Designing a digital hub – Go live date 25th
November 2019
4. Road testing the regulators forum
Contact details
Janice Milne
Head of EnergyEmail: [email protected]
www.sepa.org.uk
ScottishEnviromentProtectionAgency
ScottishEPA