Road and rail emissions—regulation


Published by a ³ÉÈËÓ°Òô Environment expert
Practice notes

Road and rail emissions—regulation


Published by a ³ÉÈËÓ°Òô Environment expert

Practice notes
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Originally produced in Partnership with Navraj Singh Ghaleigh of Senior Lecturer in Climate Law, University of Edinburgh.

Brexit

11 pm (GMT) on 31 December 2020 marked the end of the Brexit transition/Implementation period entered into following the UK’s withdrawal from the EU. At this point in time (referred to in UK law as ‘IP completion day’), key transitional arrangements came to an end and significant changes began to take effect across the UK’s legal regime.

EU Exit Regulations

The following EU exit regulations are relevant to road and rail emissions:

  1. •

    the Road Vehicle Emissions Performance Standards (Cars and Vans) (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019, SI 2019/550

  2. •

    the Road Vehicles and Non-Road Mobile Machinery (Type-Approval) (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019, SI 2019/648 (replaced by the Road Vehicles and Non-Road Mobile Machinery (Type-Approval) (Amendment and Transitional Provisions) (EU Exit) Regulations 2022, SI 2022/1273 from 31 December 2022)

  3. •

    the Road Vehicles and Non-Road Mobile Machinery (Type Approval) (Amendment) (EU Exit) (No 2) Regulations 2019, SI 2019/691

  4. •

    the Heavy Duty Vehicles (Emissions and Fuel Consumption) (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019, SI

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