Environmental statement - Flyndre and Cawdor - Maersk Oil

Territorial Waters
Public
Participation
Environmental
Liability
Marine
Management
Pollution from Ships of MARPOL
Territorial Sea Act 1987
Territorial Waters Order
Control Oil Pollution Act 1974
Defines the territorial waters of the UK.
Flyndre and Cawdor Environmental Statement
Appendix A - Register of Environmental Legislation
EC Directive 2003/35 on Public Participation The Public Participation Directive (PPD) was issued by the European Commission in order to provide members of the public with
opportunities to participate on the permitting and ongoing regulation of certain categories of activities within Member States, including
Environmental Impact Statements.
EC Directive 2004/35 on Environmental
Liability with Regard to the Prevention and
Remedying of Environmental Damage
Environmental Damage (Prevention and
Remediation) Regulations 2009 (as amended
2010)
The Environmental Damage (Prevention and
Remediation) (Wales) Regulations 2009
Environmental Liability (Scotland) Regulations
2009
EC Directive 2008/56 (the Marine Strategy
Framework Directive)
The Marine Strategy Regulations 2010
The Environmental Liability Directive enforces strict liability for prevention and remediation of environmental damage to ‘biodiversity’,
water and land from specified activities and remediation of environmental damage for all other activities through fault or negligence.
These regulations implement EC Directive 2004/35 on Environmental Liability, forcing polluters to prevent and repair damage to water
systems, land quality, species and their habitats and protected sites. The polluter does not have to be prosecuted first, so remedying
the damage should be faster.
The Regulations were previously amended in 2009 to include the seabed out to the limits of the continental shelf anywhere other than
the seabed out to the limits of the renewable energy zone around England. The regulations were amended again in 2010 to provide for
the devolution to the Scottish Ministers of certain of the Secretary of State’s functions with respect to preventing and remedying
damage to marine nature conservation in the Scottish offshore region. However, the Secretary of State still enforces preventing and
remedying damage caused by oil, gas and carbon dioxide storage activities and marine transport activities.
The Marine Strategy Regulations 2010 transpose the requirements of the Marine Strategy Framework Directive into UK law. The
Directive requires Member States to implement measures to achieve or maintain good environmental status of their marine
environment by 2020. Specifically, the Directive requires Member States to create a strategy for the following:
an initial assessment of the current environmental status of a Member State's marine waters by 2012
development of a set of characteristics which describe what “Good Environmental Status” means for those waters by 2012
establishment of targets and indicators designed to show the achievement of Good Environmental Status by 2012
establishment of a monitoring programme to measure progress toward achieving Good Environmental Status by 2014
establishment of a programme of measures designed to achieve or maintain Good Environmental Status (to be designed by
2015 and implemented by 2016).
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