• EBIS Environmental Law & Policy – Annual Update 2017 - Programme
  
  9.00 Registration & Coffee
  9.30 Introduction - aims and objectives of the programme
  
  A look back at 2016
  
  · A month by month look back at the legislation and policies that were introduced during 2016
  · Analysis of major points
  
  11.00 – 11:20 Morning Break
  
  Air quality
  
  · Hot air or real issue?
  · Air Quality Management Areas
  · What can be done to improve the UK’s air quality?
  
  ISO14001:2015 and secure documentation
  
  · The major environmental policies that organisations should be considering and/or implementing
  · ISO 27001
  
  12.30 – 1:30 Lunch
  
  Environmental law in the food industry
  
  · An overview of its history and rationale
  · Food and hygiene law
  · Case study
  · Food waste
  
  The current climate
  
  · Analysis of current environmental policy
  
  In the courts
  
  · Leading cases and judgements over the last 12 months and their implications
  
  3.00 – 3:20 Afternoon Break
  
  Brexit: the environmental perspective
  
  · How will Brexit affect environmental law in the UK
  
  What’s on the horizon
  
  · The environmental policies and legislation we are likely to encounter over the next 12 months and beyond
  
  4.15 Close

Intro

The seminar provides invaluable updates for organisations to ensure they are compliant with changes in environmental law and policy.

Revisions to ISO 14001 have necessitated widespread changes in how an organisation develops and implements its environmental management system. The seminar looks at a key aspect of this – the emphasis placed on documented information. The revised standard highlights how information and data should be gathered, stored, secured, transferred etc., and the requirements placed on organisations to demonstrate systems are in place to ensure their compliance. This key element of the revised standard is relevant to all documented information your organisation handles, from confidential data on your business strategy to communications with interested parties.

This year’s seminar will also be of keen interest to those in the food industry or with food operations onsite. We examine how environmental law and policy has developed and is regulated. This element of the seminar will be relevant and applicable to all food business operators and of interest to those with onsite food operations.

As always, we will review recently introduced environmental law and policy, the current climate and what is likely to be on the horizon. We also look at how the courts have dealt with, and sentenced, environmental breaches.

Two particular areas of national interest are also examined – air quality and how Brexit may shape environmental policy.

The seminar is essential for those who are either directly involved in how your organisation meets its environmental responsibilities, or have an interest in environmental law and policy.

On completion of the course, attendees will be able to:

· Consolidate their understanding of environmental law and topical issues;

· Summarise the emerging environmental laws may impact their organisation;

· Describe relevant actions needed to successfully address a particular environmental topic in their workplace;

· Understand current environmental issues and how they are being addressed by the regulators

Who Should Attend?
All those with responsibility for ensuring environmental legal compliance within their business and those who are seeking to improve their understanding of current and recently emerging environmental law and best practice. Management System Representatives and any Manager responsible for Safety or Environment will find an invaluable one-day refresher.