Total exports for Scottish food and drink worth £1.4 billion in first quarter of year as whisky and salmon continue to play vital role in UK’s exporting success

Soiled nappies, clothing and videotape among items labelled waste paper bound for China

This instrument makes drafting amendments to six Northern Ireland Statutory Rules (SRs) in order to ensure operability of those SRs as a result of the United Kingdom’s exit from the European Union. It also amends four Northern Ireland EU Exit Statutory Instruments (SIs). It does not introduce any changes to policy and simply ensures the continuity of a functioning statute book in Northern Ireland.

2.1 This instrument corrects a number of minor errors in other instruments, and makes some additional amendments to correct deficiencies in domestic legislation arising as a result of the UK’s exit from the European Union. It amends:
• the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Environmental Impact Assessment) (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/25) (“the EIA (EU Exit) Regulations”), which relates to Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA), in the fields of agriculture and marine works;
• the Environmental Permitting (England and Wales) (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/39) (“the EPR (EU Exit) Regulations”);
• the Waste (Miscellaneous Amendments) (EU Exit) (No. 2) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/188) (“Waste (EU Exit) (No. 2) Regulations”);
• the Waste (Miscellaneous Amendments) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/620) (“the Waste (EU Exit) Regulations”).

A new National Angling Strategy has been launched to encourage greater participation in the sport by focusing on the health and well-being benefits that angling can bring.