Waste Management (Amendment) Bill 2001
Public bill · Government · Presented
The measure would speed up local authorities’ waste-management planning and prevent local decisions from undermining approved plans. It would also introduce levies on plastic shopping bags and landfill, fund waste-reduction and environmental programmes through an Environment Fund, clarify facility licensing, and increase on-the-spot litter fines.
Formal long title
Bill entitled an Act to amend and extend the Waste Management Act, 1996, and, in particular, to amend that Act with regard to the procedure for the making of waste management plans under it so that any obstacles to the State being able to comply fully with the provisions of certain acts adopted by Institutions of the European Communities by reason of any failure of local authorities to make such plans are removed, to amend the First Schedule to the Environmental Protection Agency Act, 1992, to amend section 28 of the Litter Pollution Act, 1997, and to provide for related matters
Last updated 26 July 2018
- Minister for Environment and Local Government Primary
- First StageDáil Lapsed