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  • Environment law update: Access to information 1

    United Kingdom 20/07/2000
    European Union Eco-label 8.1 The European Commission has published its Opinion on the European Parliament’s amendments to the Council’s Common Position regarding the proposal for a Regulation...
  • Environment law update: Miscellaneous 1

    United Kingdom 20/07/2000
    United Kingdom Environment Agency 12.1 The Environment, Transport and Regional Affairs Committee has published a report on the progress the Environment Agency has made since it formally took up its duties...
  • Liability in environment law 4

    United Kingdom 20/07/2000
    United Kingdom Waste management offences 1.1 A director of a company has been fined £10,000 and his company £50,000 for depositing and keeping controlled waste at an unlicensed site near Chorley....
  • Environment law update: Hazardous substances 1

    United Kingdom 20/07/2000
    United Kingdom PCBs 7.1 The Environmental Protection (Disposal of Polychlorinated Biphenyls and Other Dangerous Substances) (England and Wales) Regulations 2000 (SI 2000 No 1043) came into force on 4...
  • Environment law update: Noise 1

    United Kingdom 20/07/2000
    European Union Noise from tyres Following on from the Common Position adopted in April on the proposal for a Directive on reducing noise emissions from vehicle tyres, the second reading of this legislation...
  • Real Estate things you once knew but may have forgotten - VAT - the option to tax

    United Kingdom 19/07/2000
    VAT - the option to tax When a property owner elects to waive exemption (otherwise known as "opting to tax") in relation to a building the effect is that if the property owner makes any supplies in relation...
  • Redevelopment of Fulham Football Club - Lords overturn Court of Appeal decision

    United Kingdom 19/07/2000
    Berkeley v Secretary of State for the Environment & Others The Law Lords ruled, unanimously, last Thursday to quash the planning permission that had been granted to Fulham Football Club by the Secretary...
  • Scheme merger 2

    United Kingdom 19/07/2000
    Reference: J00540 Following a scheme merger, the member wrote in and asked whether he would have been better off under his old scheme. He had been told on the merger that he would not be adversely affected...
  • Ill-health benefits 7

    United Kingdom 19/07/2000
    Reference: J00540 The scheme rules contained no definition of incapacity so the trustees used the Inland Revenue definition which is: "physical or mental deterioration which is sufficiently serious to...
  • Transfer payment 1

    United Kingdom 18/07/2000
    Reference: J00552 The scheme had paid a transfer value to a New Zealand arrangement by cheque which took some weeks to arrive. The member claimed loss of investment return and loss arising from currency...