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In this issue: Energy efficiency and buildings Energy for environmental lawyers Environmental enforcement and prosecutions ESG and sustainability Hazardous substances and chemicals Nature, biodiversity and habitat conservation Waste Waste producer responsibility regimes Water, flooding and drainage Daily and weekly news alerts New and updated content Latest Q&A Energy efficiency and buildings The Department for Energy Security and Net Zero (DESNZ) has issued its 2025 post‑implementation review (PIR) of the Energy Savings Opportunity Scheme (ESOS) Regulations 2014 (SI 2014/1643). Using Phase 3 compliance notifications from the Environment Agency, together with unpublished interim data from Phase 3 action plans, and building on the 2020 PIR, it recommends holding off any major amendments to the ESOS Regulations until a full evaluation ends in May 2026, after which a comprehensive PIR will be completed. The research evaluates how energy audits and reporting identify and deliver energy efficiency savings across organisations. See: LNB News 14/08/2025 6...

In this issue: New technologies Internet Media Advertising, marketing and sponsorship Telecommunications Daily and weekly news alerts New and updated content Dates for your diary Trackers Useful information New technologies Commission issues guidelines on EU AI Act obligations for general-purpose AI models On 18 July 2025, the European Commission issued guidelines clarifying how obligations apply to providers of GPAI models under the EU AI Act. Published in advance of the GPAI model rules taking effect on 2 August 2025, they are intended to spell out in detail what providers must do under the law. While not legally binding, the guidelines reflect the Commission’s reading and intended application of the Act, which will inform its enforcement approach. They also sit alongside the General-Purpose AI Code of Practice that independent experts submitted to the Commission on 10 July. See News Analysis: AI developers, users see EU’s guidelines on general-purpose AI models and LNB News 18/07/2025...

In this issue: Key developments and materials Air emissions and climate change Energy efficiency and buildings Energy for environmental lawyers Environmental information Environmental permits and consents Environmental taxes, reliefs and incentives ESG and sustainability Hazardous substances and chemicals Nature, biodiversity and habitat conservation Waste Water, flooding and drainage Daily and weekly news alerts New and updated content Key developments and materials Major reforms to environmental regulation to boost growth and protect nature A fresh review, commissioned by Steve Reed and chaired by Dan Corry, reports that today’s environmental regulatory framework is out of date, patchy and overly complicated—failing both nature and economic expansion. It rejects a wholesale ‘bonfire’ of rules. Instead, it sets out 29 proposals to simplify the regime, which the government is actively examining. Under the Plan for Change, it advocates a more agile, streamlined system to spur growth while protecting the natural world. See News Analysis:...

This Practice Note outlines the reporting duties arising under key UK sanctions frameworks and other reporting requirements linked to sanctions compliance. These cover obligations in regulations made under the Sanctions and Anti-Money Laundering Act 2018 (SAMLA 2018), conditions attached to licences, other sanctions regimes, professional reporting duties and additional reporting requirements... Financial sanctions mandatory reporting obligations in regulations made under SAMLA 2018 Financial sanctions reporting duties are contained in the specific sanctions regulations issued under SAMLA 2018. These generally apply to ‘relevant firms’ as defined in the relevant statutory instrument. Obligations can extend beyond those entities, so you should review the applicable legislation for precise requirements, for example: ‘relevant institutions’ face extra reporting duties in relation to frozen accounts there are particular reporting duties for designated persons—see section: Other reporting requirements For information on the sanctions regimes established under SAMLA 2018, see Practice Note: UK sanctions regimes currently in force. The Office of Financial Sanctions Implementation (OFSI) has issued a series...

Definitions Section 64(1) of the Road Traffic Regulation Act 1984 (RTRA 1984) defines a traffic sign as any object or device, whether fixed or portable, used to convey to traffic on roads, or to any specified class of traffic, warnings, information, requirements, restrictions or prohibitions of any kind, either (a) specified by regulations made by the relevant authority or (b) authorised by the relevant authority; it also covers any line or mark on a road employed for conveying such warnings, information, requirements, restrictions or prohibitions. The definition therefore spans the sign types familiar to road users, namely: warning signs (typically triangular with a red border) mandatory prohibition signs (typically circular with a red border) mandatory signs (typically circular and blue) information signs (typically rectangular) This last group includes direction signs, place name signs and street name signs, and also road surface lines: yellow (and occasionally red) for parking restrictions, with white used for most other purposes. Powers and...

Duties and powers Harbour authorities A harbour authority is an independent, autonomous, self-governing body with responsibility for the safe management and efficient running of a harbour. In most circumstances, harbours are administered and run by statutory harbour authorities (SHAs), empowered and governed by local legislation that is generally tailored to the specific requirements of the harbour in question. Different legislation sets out various, differing definitions. Under section 313(1) of the Merchant Shipping Act 1995 (MSA 1995), a ‘harbour authority’, in relation to a harbour, covers all persons entrusted with the function of constructing, improving, managing, regulating, maintaining or lighting a harbour: the person who is the statutory harbour authority for the harbour; or if there is no statutory harbour authority for the harbour, the person (if any) who is the proprietor of the harbour, or who is entrusted with the function of managing, maintaining or improving the harbour The Department for Transport (DfT) published Guidance on Ports Good Governance in March 2018...