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Environment (Wales) Act 2016: SMNR framework, NRW powers, biodiversity duties, NRP/area statements, climate targets, waste separation and incineration bans, marine licensing, fisheries, flood and coastal erosion—practitioner overview
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Environment (Wales) Act 2016: SMNR framework, NRW powers, biodiversity duties, NRP/area statements, climate targets, waste separation and incineration bans, marine licensing, fisheries, flood and coastal erosion—practitioner overview
Environment (Wales) Act 2016 The Welsh Government brought forward the Environment (Wales) Bill (E(W) Bill) on 11 May 2015. The Environment (Wales) Act 2016 (E(W)A 2016) obtained Royal Assent on 21 March 2016. E(W)A 2016 includes a degree of tidying of environmental matters in Wales, revising statutory targets for cutting emissions and carbon budgets, as well as clarifying the law for other environmental regulatory systems, including flood risk management and land drainage. This Practice Note does not, however, address those provisions. This analysis concentrates chiefly on E(W)A 2016, Part 1, which sets out detailed provisions intended to safeguard and to secure the goods and services produced by ecosystems, and to underpin the sustainable management of natural resources in Wales. Consequently, and building further on the establishment of a single environmental body in Wales (Natural Resources Wales—NRW), it amounted to a reframing of
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