These Regulations amend the Landfill Tax Regulations 1996 to provide a number of changes to the scheme whereby landfill site operators are entitled to credit based on the contributions they give to approved bodies with objects concerned with the environment. Regulation 3 provides for amendments to regulation 31 which determines when a landfill site operator can claim tax credits and how he should calculate his entitlement to credit. The amendment reduces the maximum credit a landfill site operator may claim against their annual landfill tax liability.

The purpose of these Regulations is to regulate the use of sewage sludge (defined in reg. 2) in agriculture (defined) in such a way as to prevent harmful effects on soil, vegetation, animals and man and to promote the correct use of such sludge. No sludge shall be used in agriculture unless it is treated in accordance with these Regulations (reg. 3).

El presente Reglamento tiene como objetivo establecer las normas que deben regular el funcionamiento del registro de peritos-tasadores del Colegio de Ingenieros Agrónomos, autorizados para efectuar peritajes y avalúos en materia agropecuaria o forestal.

This Resolution of the Council of Ministers amends the Regional Management Plan for Algarve (PROT-Algarve).

Le présent décret fixe les normes de rejets de polluants dans l'air, l'eau, qu'elle soit potalisable, de baignade ou piscicole, et dans le sol.

Met en oeuvre: Loi nº 005/97/ADP portant Code de l'environnement au Burkina Faso. (1997-01-30)

This Resolution, composed of 6 articles, approves the Coastal Waters’ Management Plan (POOC) for the area Sintra-Sado and the related Regulation. The aim of the POOC is to match the protection and valorisation of the biological diversity and the landscape with natural resources’ public use and the socio-economic development of Lisbon metropolitan area. The Regulation consists of 104 articles and 11 Annexes. It classifies coastal land starting by the distinction between urban and rural land.

This regulation implements the Community Services (Torres Strait) Act 1984. It consists of 68 sections and is divided into 12 Parts. Part 2 is dedicated to the Island councils, their composition and their membership, Part 3 to the chairpersons of Island councils and Part 4 to the election of Island councils. Part 5 concerns councils’ meetings, Part 8 regulates Island courts and Part 9 the Island Coordinating Council. The regulation is completed by five schedules that provide further for the operation of the bodies regulated in the text.

Est adopté le Programme d’Action National de lutte contre la désertification (PAN), en tant qu’instrument d’application du Plan d’Action National pour l’Environnement (PANE).

The purpose of these Regulations is to establish and prescribe minimum standards for soil quality, to establish minimum standards for the management quality of soil intended for agricultural use, the establishment of criteria and procedures for the measurement and determination of soil quality and to issue measures and guidelines for soil management. The standards are prescribed in the First Schedule. The Second Schedule contains the guidelines for the management of fragile or particular soils.

Ce décret modifie les dispositions des articles R 371-3, R 371-4, R 371-7,-8,-9 et -10 du Code de la construction et de l'habitation, relatives aux conseils départementaux de l'habitat dans les départements d'outre-mer.

These Regulations implement, in relation to projects for the use of uncultivated land and semi-natural areas in Northern Ireland for intensive agricultural purposes, Council Directive 85/337/EEC on the assessment of the effects of certain public and private projects on the environment and Council Directive 1992/43/EEC on the conservation of natural habitats and of wild fauna and flora insofar as it applies to such projects. Provision is made for the screening of “relevant projects”.

These Regulations amend the Landfill Tax Regulations 1996 to provide that the temporary holding of material pending its use for site restoration purposes at the landfill site at which the disposal was made, or pending it being sorted, is not a taxable disposal. Regulation 3 corrects a drafting error made by the Landfill Tax (Amendment) Regulations 1999 (SI 1999/3270). Regulation 4 amends the definition of "qualifying use" in regulation 38 to include the use of material for site restoration purposes and the sorting of material.