IRISH ENVIRONMENTAL LEGISLATION

This Order provides for the establishment of a Commission to carry out certain functions of the Southern Regional Fisheries Board.

The Order brings into operation, from 22nd January 1996, section 34 of the Local Government (Water Pollution) Act, 1977 providing for the repeal of the Rivers Pollution Prevention Acts, 1876 and 1893.

An act to make further provision to control dumping at sea, to give effect to the convention for the protection of the marine environment of the North-East Atlantic done at Paris on the 22nd day of September, 1992, and for those purposes to repeal and re-enact with amendments the Dumping At Sea Act, 1981, and to provide for related matters.

This Order brings into operation, with effect from 22 January 1996, sections 100 and 101 of the Environmental Protection Agency Act, 1992 (No. 7 of 1992).

An act to make provision in relation to the prevention, management and control of waste; to give effect to provisions of certain acts adopted by institutions of the European Communities in respect of those matters; to amend the Environmental Protection Agency Act, 1992 and to repeal certain enactments and to provide for related matters.

This Order brings into operation with effect from 11th December, 1995, the provisions of sections 43 and 105 of the Environmental Protection Agency Act, 1992 (No. 7 of 1992).

These Regulations alter the transitional technical arrangements for establishing compliance with Directive 94/12/EC, concerning emissions from mechanically propelled vehicles.

Council Directive of 2 April 1979 on the conservation of wild birds (79/409/EEC) provides for the conservation of wild birds by, among other things, classifying important ornithological sites as Special Protection Areas for them. The effect of these Regulations is to classify an additional ten sites as Special Protection Areas in accordance with Article 4 of the Directive and to provide that contravention of the provisions of these Regulations shall constitute an offence.