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01 February 2024
Value Added Tax (Installation of Energy-Saving Materials) Order 2024

This order expands the zero rate of VAT for qualifying energy-saving materials to buildings used solely for relevant charitable purposes.

Further technologies are also added to the scheme, including water source heat pumps, qualifying electrical storage batteries and smart diverters.

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12 February 2024
Environment Act 2021 (Commencement No. 8 and Transitional Provisions) Regulations 2024

These regulations brought outstanding sections of the Environment Act 2021 that concern Biodiversity Net Gain (BNG) requirements on planning into force in England. 

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21 December 2024
Regulation (EU) 2023/2631 on European Green Bonds and optional disclosures for bonds marketed as environmentally sustainable and for sustainability-linked bonds

Regulation (EU) 2023/2631 introduces European Green Bonds.

This voluntary designation is intended to promote environmentally sustainable and sustainability-linked investment by committing to the use of the proceeds to finance (directly or indirectly) activities within the EU Taxonomy for Sustainable Activities Regulation (EU) 2020/852.

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11 December 2027
Decision (EU) 2023/2749 establishing Best Available Techniques (BAT) Conclusions for Slaughterhouses, Animal By-products and/or Edible Co-products Industries

Decision (EU) 2023/2749 establishes Best Available Techniques Conclusions (BATC) for permitted slaughterhouses, animal by-products and edible co-products facilities.

This Decision specifies mandatory minimum requirements on the environmental performance of these installations.

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03 March 2025
Fluorinated Greenhouse Gas Regulation (EU) 2024/573

This Regulation will revoke and replace the Fluorinated Greenhouse Gas Regulation (EU) No 517/2014.

Changes will include expanded leak testing obligations, further bans or restrictions on supplying additional types of product and further restrictions on maintenance and service operations using higher GWP gases. Decreasing production rights and quotas will apply to F-gases and the associated products produced or placed on the EU Market. 

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31 March 2024
Greenhouse Gas Emissions Trading Scheme (Amendment) Order 2024

Amendments by this order will delay a range of UK ETS deadlines by a year.

The window for UK ETS installations to apply for free allocations in the 2026-2030 period is deferred to the period between 1 April to 30 June 2025. This delayed window will also apply for applicants to the hospital or small emitters scheme or ultra-small emitters scheme for 2026-2030.

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01 April 2024
Finance Act 2024

This Act will increase the rates of landfill tax (in England and Northern Ireland), plastic packaging tax and aggregates levy from 1 April 2024.

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20 February 2024
Town and Country Planning (General Permitted Development) (England) (Amendment) Order 2024

This order amended the Town and Country Planning (General Permitted Development) (England) Order 2015.

Further commercial, business, and service premises may be converted into dwellinghouses without planning permission: requirements on the period of vacancy and the upper floorspace limit were removed.

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