An overview of UK legislation

With the introduction of the EPA in 1990 specific industrial processes were targeted for control under Section 1 of the Act with the implementation of the Integrated Pollution Control Regulations (IPC). Requirements for the chemical industry are set out under Section 4 of the IPC regulations. Under this system, potentially polluting processes must be identi- 

Section 169 of the act also provides powers of entry and or investigation to the controlling authority. In the UK this would fall to the National 

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