All UK environmental regulation under review

As a part of the coalition government's bid to cut red tape all of the UK's environmental regulations are currently under review.

Ongoing to April 2013
Environmental regulation - UK

All of the UK's 278 environmental regulations have been included in a list of so-called "red tape" that the Cabinet Office is asking individuals to comment on, to help identify which should stay and which should be axed. The "red-tape" challenge aims to look at more than 21,000 existing statutory rules and regulations, with the priority given to regulations that are believed to place the biggest "burdens" on businesses. Once the exercise is complete, government ministers will have three months to decide which regulations to keep, and why.