Environmental & Planning Articles

The following articles from our Legal News section are related to Environmental & Planning and Health & Safety:

Environmental & Planning

• Climate Change Policy and Legislation Review
• Director Liability for Environmental Clean Up
• Access to Information on the Environment
• Position Paper on the reform of the water sector in Ireland
• Irish Implementation of the Environmental Liability Directive (2004/35/EC)
• The Carbon Tax
• New Water Services (Amendment) Bill 2011 published
• DPP v South East Recycling Ltd, Court of Criminal Appeal [2010] IECCA 126
• Increase in the Landfill Levy from September 2011
• EC (Greenhouse Gas Emissions Trading) (Aviation) Regulations 2010 [S.I. No. 261 of 2010]
• Transposition of the Renewable Energy Directive 2009 (Directive 2009/28/EC)
• Review of the Environmental Protection Agency
  
• The European Communities (Waste Directive) Regulations 2011 (S.I. No 126 of 2011)
• The European Communities (Environmental Assessment of certain plans and programmes) (Amendment) Regulations 2011 (S.I. 200/2011)
• The EU Industrial Emissions Directive
•  General Counsel Forum - Environment, Health and Safety.pdf (1.64 MB, Adobe PDF)
• The “Galway Bypass Case” and the Habitats Directive
• Green Public Procurement
• Dublin Local Authorities' Waste Management Regime Quashed
• The “Green Lease” Explained
• EPA issues new Code of Practice for the Development of an Enforcement Policy for Unauthorised Waste Activities

Health & Safety

• Construction companies acquitted: prima facie case not made out
• Successfully defending health and safety prosecutions – Court of Criminal Appeal overturns Circuit Court conviction of construction company
• Health and Safety Prosecutions: Duty of Care Extends to Developers, Contractors and Designers
• Company directors sentenced to prison for workplace death
• First conviction of company in UK for corporate manslaughter
• Health and Safety Authority Refused Jurisdiction to Investigate a Road Accident in Co. Donegal