Policy papers and consultations

Requesting comments on proposed changes to the persistent organic pollutants (POPs) regulation, including changes to waste limits and specific exemptions.

• From: Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs
• Updated: 4 April 2024

Exemption renewal under the Restriction of Hazardous Substances (RoHS) regulations for lead as the activator in sun tanning lamps.

• From: Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs
• Updated: 15 March 2024

Exemption renewal under the Restriction of Hazardous Substances (RoHS) regulations for cadmium anodes in Hersh cells used in industrial monitoring and control instruments.

• From: Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs
• Updated: 15 March 2024

Exemption renewal under the Restriction of Hazardous Substances (RoHS) regulations for use of lead in glass frit binder for assembly of gas lasers.

• From: Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs
• Updated: 15 March 2024

Exemption renewal under the Restriction of Hazardous Substances (RoHS) regulations for use of lead and cadmium in atomic absorption spectroscopy lamps.

• From: Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs
• Updated: 15 March 2024

Requesting comments on proposed changes to the polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) regulations

• From: Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs and 1 others
• Updated: 6 March 2024

An explanation of the rationale used to prioritise substances for potential regulatory action under UK REACH.

• From: Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs and 2 others
• Updated: 15 February 2024

How the government is implementing The Official Controls (Plant Protection Products) Regulations 2020 in Great Britain.

• From: Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs
• Updated: 19 January 2024

These reports contain the Health and Safety Executive’s advice on the use of Cruiser SB on the UK’s sugar beet crops.

• From: Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs and 1 others
• Updated: 18 January 2024

These documents provide information on how the water environment is managed in the English part of the Solway Tweed River Basin District.

• From: Environment Agency
• Updated: 1 January 2024

Information on the mechanisms (policy, legal or financial tools) that underpin the draft summary programme of measures which translate measures into outcomes for the water environment.

• From: Environment Agency
• Updated: 1 January 2024

Outlines our plans for an alternative transitional registration model (ATRm) for UK REACH.

• From: Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs
• Updated: 9 November 2023

Requesting comments on a draft risk profile and risk management evaluations for 3 chemical substances proposed as POPs to the UN’s POP review committee.

• From: Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs
• Updated: 15 August 2023

How the draft river basin management plans have been updated and a summary of the programmes of measures.

• From: Environment Agency
• Updated: 30 March 2023

Seeking your views on an application to exempt the use of lead and cadmium in ion selective electrodes from the RoHS Regulations.

• From: Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs
• Updated: 7 March 2023

We want your views on the draft plans to help shape the management of the water environment. They will help us update the current river basin management plans.

• From: Environment Agency
• Updated: 22 December 2022

Call for evidence seeking information on the use of dicyclohexyl phthalate.

• From: Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs
• Updated: 16 December 2022

Call for evidence seeking information on the use of disodium octaborate.

• From: Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs
• Updated: 16 December 2022

A report on the effects of Regulation 517/2014 on fluorinated greenhouse gases (F gases) in Great Britain.

• From: Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs
• Updated: 16 December 2022

Seeking views on extending the current UK REACH submission deadlines for transitional registrations.

• From: Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs
• Updated: 29 November 2022