Environment, Planning and Rural Affairs (Miscellaneous Amendments) (Wales) Regulations 2018 (W.S.I. 1216 (W. 249) of 2019).

These Regulations make amendments in relation to Wales to a number of pieces of secondary legislation relating to the environment, planning and rural affairs. The Regulations also make other miscellaneous amendments to legislation in the fields of agriculture, animal health and welfare, environmental protection, sea fisheries, seeds, town and country planning, waste and water, in particular amending out of date references to European legislation in domestic legislation.
They amend the Environmental Damage (Prevention and Remediation) (Wales) Regulations 2009 to require operators to identify potential remedial measures and submit them to the enforcement authority. The amendment addresses damage to a site of scientific interest which is also a European Site. It provides that damage caused by an act expressly authorised by the relevant authorities in accordance with Part 2 of the Wildlife and Countryside Act 1981 is not automatically excluded from the scope of the 2009 Regulations. The Regulations amend the Water Abstraction (Transitional Provisions) Regulations 2017 to correct an error in the description of what circumstances qualify as granting a more limited abstraction licence than that applied for.
The Regulations make other miscellaneous amendments to legislation in the fields of agriculture, animal health and welfare, environmental protection, sea fisheries, seeds, town and country planning, waste and water, in particular amending out of date references to European legislation in domestic legislation.