This Act makes provision for integrated environmental management and the protection and conservation of the environment and the sustainable management and use of natural resource and related matters. In Part I its sets out the principles governing environmental management. The Act consists of 135 section divided into 12 Parts: Preliminary (I); The Zambia Environmental Management Agency (II)...

These Regulations, consisting of 13 sections divided into four Parts and completed by one Schedule, declare certain liquids not to be beverages and exempts certain beverage containers from the operation of the container deposit scheme (CDS). A regulated container is a container to which the CDS applies and for which a supply approval is in force and that bears the approved refund marking. The...

This Act amends environment protection legislation in relation to a variety of matters including; civil proceedings in relation with environmental damage; fines and fixed payment notices for air pollution offences; modification of waste generation levy; development, including development for which an environmental impact assessment or an appropriate assessment is required, exempted from...

This Act makes provision for the establishment Municipal City Councils, Municipal Town Councils, Village Councils and District Councils, provides for functions and powers of such authorities and for other matters related to local authorities such as the cadastral database and the granting of permits and licenses. It also concerns services provided for by local authorities such as the storage...

These regulations are composed by 37 articles organised in seven parts, plus ten schedules. The first Part covers the scope of the Regulations, which is the implementation of the EU legislation on waste, the objective of which is to protect the environment and human health by preventing or reducing the adverse impacts of the generation and management of waste and by reducing overall impacts of...

This Act, consisting of 16 Chapters divided into 302 sections, aims at promoting waste avoidance and reduction, and resource recovery and efficiency actions; reducing the consumption of natural resources and minimizing the disposal of waste by encouraging waste avoidance and the recovery, re-use and recycling of waste; minimizing the overall impact of waste generation and disposal; ensuring a...

The purpose of these Regulations, made under the National Environmental Standards and Regulations Enforcement Agency Act, is to prevent and minimise pollution from all operations and activities of the electrical and electronic sector. According to these Regulations, which apply the Polluter Pays Principle, a facility or a corporate of the sector shall submit to the competent Agency an emergency...

The Law aims at harmonizing the Cypriot legislative framework with Directive 2008/98/EC on waste and intends creating the suitable legislative framework for harmonizing the Cypriot legislation, through secondary legislation, with a number of other related EU directives. The Law also provides for the implementation at a national level of Regulation (EC) No. 1013/2006 on shipments of waste, as last...

This Act, consisting of 10 Chapters, provides for Solid Waste Generation, Collection, and Disposal Management. The local body shall be responsible for the management of solid waste by construction and operation of infrastructure like transfer station, landfill site, processing plant, compost plant, biogas-plant and also collection of waste, final disposal and processing. It specifies all the...