Secretary Owen Paterson has invited business and public to submit ideas on how to make guidance easier to find and follow.
UK businesses and the public are being invited to send ideas on how environmental rules and regulations can be drawn together and made easier to find. Environment secretary Owen Paterson said that making environmental guidance easier to find and follow could save businesses more than £1 billion over a decade.
The move is part of the government’s bid to reduce red tape. The government has to date issued more than 5,000 environmental guidance documents, extending in total to more than 100,000 pages. There are 250 separate data reporting requirements for businesses.
Paterson added: ‘This is not about reducing the quality of environmental regulations. The same protection levels will stay. We want to make it easier for businesses to find and follow the law with a single version of straightforward guidance for each topic.’
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