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Natural Environment Bill

Enforcement and other matters - Enforcement - Providing information and guidance

299: Local authority or EPA to publish information about their functions, duties, and powers

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"Local authorities and EPA must share their work and decisions online for free"

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You will be able to find information about what a local authority or the EPA can do on their website. They must put information about their jobs, what they have to do, and what powers they have on a website that you can access for free. They also have to publish a list of times when they took action and someone was found guilty or a court made an order. You will be able to see decisions about enforceable undertakings on their website too. This includes what the undertaking says and why they decided to accept it. The local authority or the EPA must make this information available to you online. The website will have a register of enforcement activities and decisions about enforceable undertakings. This means you can look at what the local authority or the EPA is doing and see how they make decisions. You can access this information for free on their website.

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Enforcement: Providing information and guidance

299Local authority or EPA to publish information about their functions, duties, and powers

  1. The local authority or the EPA must publish on an internet site maintained by or on their behalf that is accessible to the public free of charge—

  2. information about their functions, duties, and powers; and
    1. a register of all their enforcement activities that result in a conviction or court order; and
      1. all decisions to accept enforceable undertakings, including the content of each enforceable undertaking and a summary of the reasons for the decision to accept it.