Dates/Venues:
October 8th 2024 - Virtual Online
October 10th 2024 - Virtual Online
October 15th 2024 - Virtual Online
Overview:
This event is a must for professionals concerned about environmental legal compliance and covers all the key changes over the last 12 months. The one-day programme addresses the key elements of recent and emerging legislation so that you can stay ahead in protecting your organisation.
The seminar provides invaluable updates in environmental law and policy for organisations, and a base from which they can ensure legal compliance. An essential day for those who are either directly involved in delivering an organisation’s environmental responsibilities, or those who simply have an interest in keeping up to date with environmental law and policy.
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 or emerging environmental law and best practice. Management System Representatives and any Manager with environmental responsibilities will find this to be an invaluable one-day update.
What you will gain from the course?
- Stay Current with Regulatory Changes: Gain a comprehensive understanding of the latest developments and amendments in environmental laws and regulations, ensuring participants are well-informed about the evolving legal landscape.
- Enhance Legal Compliance: Acquire the knowledge and insights necessary to navigate complex environmental regulations, empowering attendees to ensure their organizations remain in strict adherence to compliance requirements.
- Mitigate Legal Risks: Identify potential legal pitfalls and challenges in environmental management, enabling participants to proactively address issues and mitigate legal risks associated with environmental practices within their respective industries.
- Optimize Environmental Management Strategies: Incorporate the latest legal insights into environmental management strategies, allowing participants to fine-tune existing practices and develop proactive approaches to environmental stewardship.
- Implement Sustainable Practices: Understand how changes in environmental legislation impact sustainable business practices, encouraging attendees to integrate environmentally responsible strategies into corporate frameworks.
- Manage Enforcement and Compliance Challenges: Equip attendees with the skills to effectively navigate enforcement actions and compliance challenges, ensuring a robust response to legal issues that may arise in the environmental context.
**The 2024 programme is currently under development and will, as always, cover all the latest up-to-date legal aspects that you need to know. Please see below for last years programme to give an idea of the type of subjects covered.**
2023 Programme:
09:30 – 09:45: Welcome and introduction
Important Acts – what they mean and where they are up to:
- The Retained EU Law (Revocation and Reform) Act 2023
- An update on the Environment Act 2021
10:35 – 10:45: Break
Legal update – New and amended regulation, including:
- EPR
- Plastics and Plastic Packaging Tax
- REACH
- POPS
- Climate Change
- Decarbonisation
11:35 – 11:45: Break
UK-BAT – Establishing the Best Available Techniques for the UK
- Environmental Outcome Reports
- Focus on: Biodiversity Net Gain
12:30 – 13:00: Lunch
New and revised policies and strategy documents, including:
- Air
- Energy
- Water
- Update on the workings of new UK schemes
13:50 – 14:00: Break
The move to unlimited civil sanctions
- Direction and horizon scanning
14:50 – 15:10: Questions
15:10 – 15:15: Thanks and Close
Great day, well worth it! –
Safestyle UK
Very good presentation – 4 Rail
Excellent course, very informative – EDF Energy
Really interesting, great course - Idom Merebrook Ltd
Very useful, many thanks - Royal College of Psychiatrists
Very enjoyable and informative course – Collins Construction
Really excellent course, most informative and well presented. One of the highlight training events to attend – MOD
Speaker is excellent, very knowledgeable, sensitive to attendee’s needs – Tearfund
Excellent course delivered at the right pace and fully comprehensive. The course was extremely worthwhile – MOD
Excellent presenter – Rockline Industries UK
Very well presented and content was relevant and to the point. – Signature Flight
Enjoyable & informative day, Thanks - Breedon Gorup
Great delivery approach and response to questions raised, thank you. – ISSUK
A very interesting and informative day, excellent presenter, and good to meet a diverse range of other attendees - Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust
Good content. Good discussions amongst the delegates and very beneficial - PERKINS ENGINES
Lots of useful information provided and opportunity for questions to be raised –
Brother UK
Group work sessions ideal and a good opportunity to engage across the sector. –
SRUC
Very informative, delivered at a good pace, It was good to have regular breaks so as not to get Zoom fatigue –
WCMC
I enjoyed the dividing into rooms that took me out my comfort zone and made me think and communicate with different individuals of all abilities and backgrounds –
Vaillant
An enjoyable course, very well delivered along with meaningful breakout groups. –
Cala Group
A useful course, trainer was very knowledgeable. –
Schneider Electric