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Environmental civil sanctions: the enforcement powers of the Environment Agency
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Criminal law has not always allowed flexibility in enforcement of environmental legislation. In some instances, regulators have been forced to choose between issuing warning letters and cautions at one level, and taking criminal proceedings at another. This has often led to an imbalance in enforcement whereby criminal law has not been flexible enough to deal proportionally with offences, or ensure fines adequately cover the costs of non-compliance.
However, further to a review about the effectiveness of regulation, civil sanctions regulations have been introduced to provide environmental regulators with a more flexible and balanced set of tools to deal with environmental offences.
On 4 January 2011, the Environment Agency in England and Wales gained new enforcement powers, known as civil sanctions, which it can use against companies that flout environmental laws. Heralded as a more flexible approach towards enforcement, this briefing looks at what these sanctions mean for employers.
