Consultation outcome: Extending civil sanction variable monetary penalty powers

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December 11

09:00 2023

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As a result of the responses received, we have:

published our updatedenforcement and sanctions policy and its annex 1
adopted the proposed calculation method in line with thesentencing guideline for environmental offending

Feedback received

Extending civil sanction variable monetary penalty powers: response document

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Detail of feedback received

We ran this consultation on our Citizen Space consultation website and on GOV.UK for 8 weeks, from 14 August 2023 to 8 October 2023.

The response document sets out:

the questions we asked in the consultation
a summary of the responses we received
what we will do as a result of the consultation

Original consultation

Consultation description

Following the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Strengthening environmental civil sanctions consultation, the Environment Agency want your views on how they propose to:

remove the cap for variable monetary penalties in the Environmental Civil Sanctions (England) Order 2010 from its current amount of 250,000
introduce powers to issue variable monetary penalties for the Environmental Permitting (England and Wales) Regulations (EPR) 2016

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Extending civil sanction variable monetary penalty powers consultation

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