Ross Wright, Author at The Compliance People

Amends: Regulation (EU) No 1169/2011 on the provision of food information to consumers

Regulation (EU) 2018/775 establishes the general principles, requirements and responsibilities governing food information and in particular, food labelling. These Regulations apply to food business operators at all stages of the food chain, where their activities concern providing food information to consumers.

This Regulation requires the indication of the country of origin or place of provenance where its omission could mislead consumers. In particular if the information accompanying the food or the label as a whole would otherwise imply that the food has a different country of origin.

The country of origin or place of provenance of a primary ingredient, which is different from the food product it is part of, must be given:

Requirements regarding the font size and how the reference must appear on the food products packaging are also included.

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From 30th June 2018, the manufacture and sale of rinse-off personal care products containing microbeads is prohibited in Wales.

Rinse-off personal care products are products manufactured to be applied to any relevant human body part in the course of any personal care treatment. This includes shampoo and shaving products.

A microbead is defined as any water-insoluble solid particle of less than or equal to 5mm of any dimension.

This will reduce the release of plastic into the marine environment and lessen harm to marine organisms caused by this form of microplastic.

A person who supplies, or offers to supply, any rinse-off personal care product containing microbeads is guilty of an offence.

This Act repeals the European Communicates Act 1972 (ECA) on the day the UK leaves the European Union (29th March 2019).

Directly applicable EU law (i.e. EU regulations) has effect in UK law without the need to pass specific UK implementing legislation. If no further action was taken when the ECA is revoked, this directly applicable law would cease to apply leaving gaps on the statute book.

The ECA provides ministers with powers to make secondary legislation to implement EU obligations (i.e. EU directives). If no further action was taken when the ECA is revoked, this law would cease to apply leaving gaps on the statute book.

To avoid these gaps, this Act converts the body of existing EU law in effect on exit, into domestic law and preserves the laws made in the UK to implement EU obligations once we leave the EU. After this date, EU legislation will not operate. Parliament will be able to decide which elements of that law to keep, amend or repeal.

This approach means the same rules and laws will apply on the day after we leave the EU.

This Act gives the Government temporary powers to create secondary legislation to correct problems arising from the withdrawal. For example, the Government could amend UK legislation to either replace the reference to the Commission with a UK body or remove this requirement completely.

The current devolution settlements were agreed after the UK became a member of the EU. In areas where powers have been devolved, each of the current settlements specifies that the relevant devolved instruments cannot legislate or otherwise act in a way that is incompatible with EU law.

This Act removes the requirement to legislation or otherwise to act in ways that are compatible with EU law. It maintains the current parameters of devolved competence by placing a temporary freeze on devolved legislation, allowing it to continue after exit.

A process will begin to remove the arrangements for freezing devolved competence, and regulations will be introduced to continue the ongoing framework or they may be revoked.

These Regulations provide the regulatory framework for the implementation of Regulation (EU) 2016/1628. It sets out gaseous and particulate pollutant emission limits and type-approval for internal combustion engines for non-road mobile machinery (NRMM).

NRMM is defined as any mobile machine, item of transportable industrial equipment, or vehicle – with or without bodywork – that is:

Duties for manufactures, importers and distributors are contained in Regulation (EU) 2016/1628.

The Secretary of State is the approval authority and the market authority for the purpose of these Regulations. The Vehicles Certification Agency, and the Driver and Vehicle Standards Agency will carry out these roles on behalf of the Secretary of State.

These Regulations apply to airports in England or Wales with more than 50,000 civil aircraft movements per year.

They designate competent authorities for the purposes of Regulation (EU) No 598/2014. The Regulation establishes the rules and procedures on the introduction of noise-related operating restrictions at airports within a Balanced Approach,

The Balanced Approach is a practice promoted by the International Civil Aviation Organisation (ICAO). Airports are encouraged to initially assess the current noise situation and use this to define a noise baseline, future objectives and an accompanying noise management plan.

The competent authority are responsible for ensuring application of the balanced approach and compliance with the procedure for adopting operating restrictions, when determining a planning matter in relation to a relevant airport within their area. Depending on the decision to be taken this would either be the local planning authority, the Secretary of State or the Welsh Ministers.

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The CRC Energy Efficiency Scheme (CRC), formerly the carbon reduction commitment, is designed to promote energy efficiency and reduce carbon emissions in the UK. CRC targets emissions that are not included within Climate Change Agreements (CCA) or the EU Emissions Trading System (EU ETS).

This Order revokes The CRC Energy Efficiency Scheme Order 2013 and makes provision for the early closure of the CRC Energy Efficiency Scheme.

The current phase, which applies to emissions from relevant energy supplies from 1st April 2014 to 31st March 2019, will be the final phase of the CRC Scheme.

Participants who qualified for the current phase or for the previous phase (2010-2014) will still be required to comply with their obligations as usual. For the current phase, participants are required to monitor their supplies of electricity and gas from 1st April 2014 to 31st March 2019, and to annually purchase and surrender sufficient allowances to cover the related emissions. The surrender for the final year is due by the last working day of October 2019.

The Administrator will still be required to maintain the Registry, were participants details and reports are stored, until March 2022. After this date, the Registry will close. A record of the Registry and a list of participants must be kept until the end of March 2025 to facilitate any outstanding activities relating to the current phase.

The Environment Agency administers the scheme for the UK and regulates the scheme in England. The Scottish Environment Protection Agency, Northern Ireland Environment Agency and Natural Resources Wales regulate the scheme in their own countries.

There have been 21 fatal accidents at stadium construction sites for the 2018 World Cup in Russia, according to a report published by the Building and Wood Workers’ International (BWI).

On 7th June 2018, the BWI published a report that revealed serious violation of workers’ rights at the stadium construction sites for the 2018 World Cup in Russia.

Health and safety experts from BWI affiliates took part in 35 joint inspection visits of eight of the ten stadiums under construction or renovation between October 2016 and March 2018. Each site was visited at least twice, and in some cases on five occasions.

The inspections found dangerous working conditions and workers being forced to work outside extremely cold temperatures, in some cases below -20Â°C.

They found that the principal causes of the 21 fatalities were falling from height or equipment falling onto workers from height. The BWI believe that these accidents could have been prevented if safety and health condition were strictly enforced.

The BWI are calling on FIFA to take action and to adopt measures in its bidding documents and technical specification to ensure decent working conditions at World Cup stadia and related infrastructure.Â

It also argued that the international football association should also adopt a mandatory policy on a â€œDecent Workâ€ stadium, basing its specifications on international labour and occupational health and safety standards.

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A civil engineering company has been fined Â£50,000 for illegally dumping construction waste and destroying great crested newt habitats.

Between July 2014 and October 2014, the company deposited over 5,000 tonnes of concrete, brick and soil into two land hollows at Bage Farm, Madley, Herefordshire.

The hollows were a habitat for great crested newts, a European Protect Species. Some of the newt population were disturbed, injured and killed as a result of the waste being deposited.

Under the Conservation of Habitats and Species Regulations, it is an offence to disturb the newts or to intentionally or recklessly damage or destroy their habitat.

John Jones Civil Engineering & Groundwork Ltd pleaded guilty to operating without an environmental permit, contrary to the Environmental Permitting (England & Wales) Regulations 2018. The company was fined Â£50,000 and ordered to pay prosecution costs of Â£50,000.

The Department for Transport has announced new safety rules regarding the use of drones in the UK.
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From 30th July 2018, all UK drone users will have to pass an online safety test. As well as this, anyone flying a drone weighting 250g or more will also have to register with the Civil Aviation Authority (CAA).

Drones will be banned from flying above 121.9m and within 1km of an airport boundary.

Users who breach these restrictions could face unlimited fines, up to five years in prison, or both. Drone owners who do not register or complete the safety test could be fined up to Â£1000.

These new rules are to protect aircrafts and passengers following a 25% increase in incidents involving aircrafts and drones in the UK in 2017.

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According to a technical bulletin published by UKAS, the deadline for ISO 14001:2015 and ISO 9001:2015 will be extended to 15th March 2019, in certain situations.

When ISO 14001:2015 and ISO 9001:2015 were published a three year transition period, until 15th September 2018, was given. On 15th September 2018 all ISO 9001:2008 and ISO 14001:2004 certificates will expire and will no longer be valid. If transition activities are successfully completed prior to that date certificates to the new versions will be issued.

However, if the certification body has not completed the transition audit or the certification body is unable to verify the implementation of corrections and corrective action for any major non-conformity prior to 15th September 2018, then certification to the new versions will not be recommended.

Following 15th September 2018, the certification body can issue certification to the new Standard within 6 months (15th March 2019) provided that the audit process has been initiated by 15th September 2018 and the outstanding transition activities are completed by 15th March 2019. The effective date on the certificate shall be on or after the certification decision and the expiry date shall be based on the prior certification cycle.

For the audit process to be classed as initiated, at least the document review and/or head office audit (depending on their documentation transition plan/process) needs to have been started prior to 15th September 2018 for the 6 month rule to apply.

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