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Skipaway Ltd (Appellant) – and – The Environment Agency (Respondent)

País/Territorio
Reino Unido
Tipo de la corte
Otros
Fecha
May 5, 2006
Fuente
UNEP, InforMEA
Nombre del tribunal
High Court of Justice
Sede de la corte
London
Juez
Newman
Burnton
Número de referencia
[2006] EWHC 983 (Admin)
Idioma
Inglés
Materia
Desechos y sustancias peligrosas
Palabra clave
Gestión de desechos
Resumen
This was an appeal from the decision of the Magistrates’ Court convicting the Appellant of 6 offences under section 33(6) of the Environmental Protection Act 1990. All of the offences related to alleged breaches by the Appellant of the terms of its waste management licence relating to its waste transfer plant known as the Recycling Centre in Kent. The Appellant submitted that the justices had erred in finding that the Respondent had proved that the waste that was the subject of the various charges was controlled waste. The Environment Agency had not proved that the waste that was the subject of the charges was not agricultural waste. He contended that the licence regulated its use of the site in relation only to controlled waste, and specifically household, industrial and commercial waste. Agricultural waste and waste from quarries were not controlled waste. The Environment Agency had not excluded the reasonable possibility that the waste that was referred to in the charges was agricultural or quarry waste. The Court held that the mere fact that waste came from farms or quarries did not of itself establish that it was agricultural waste or waste from a quarry within the meaning of the Environmental Protection Act 1990, and did not establish that it was outside the scope of the conditions in the license. It decided that the justices were entitled to find that the waste to which the information related had been proven beyond a reasonable doubt to be controlled waste.
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skipaway_v_environmental_agency_0506.htm