Review of Enforcement in Environmental Regulation
It is important to get environmental enforcement right. We need to enforce regulations effectively to change offender behaviour and protect the environment.
This Review aimed to develop a strategic approach to improving environmental enforcement. It has drawn together evidence on obstacles to effective enforcement and developed ideas about possible ways to overcome them. These ideas form a package of measures that the evidence suggests would work together to increase the overall impact of environmental enforcement.
It proposes solutions that would be tough on serious offenders, but give regulators the flexibility to deal proportionately with businesses that try to protect the environment. Further work would be needed to assess the detailed costs, benefits and practical application of the ideas presented.
Latest news
- The Review has issued its final report.
- Fairer and Better Environmental Enforcement Project.
In May 2007 Defra launched a new project (Fairer and Better Environmental Enforcement Project) to develop recommendations for improving the fairness and effectiveness of environmental enforcement. This will start from ideas and options drawn from the Government's Review of Enforcement in Environmental Regulation and from Professor Macrory's recommendations (Regulatory Justice: Making Sanctions Effective). - In July 2007 Defra Environmental Regulation Policy Division hosted workshops as part of an evidence gathering exercise for the Fairer and Better Environmental Enforcement Project (FBEE). FBEE workshops.
Further information:
- What does the review mean to me?
- Background
- The evidence
- Report of conclusions
- How does the review fit with other initiatives?
- Access to environmental justice
- Contacts
Page last modified:
2 July 2007
Page published: 22 December 2005