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# 2020 No. 489 

# ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION, ENGLAND AND WALES 

The Environmental Protection (Disposal of Polychlorinated Biphenyls and other Dangerous Substances) (England and Wales) (Amendment) Regulations 2020 

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The Secretary of State makes these Regulations in exercise of the powers conferred by section 2(2) of the European Communities Act 1972( a ). 

The Secretary of State has been designated for the purposes of section 2(2) of that Act in relation to persistent organic pollutants( b ). 

## Citation and commencement 

1. —(1) These Regulations may be cited as the Environmental Protection (Disposal of Polychlorinated Biphenyls and other Dangerous Substances) (England and Wales) (Amendment) Regulations 2020. 

(2) These Regulations come into force on 1st July 2020. 

## Amendments to the Environmental Protection (Disposal of Polychlorinated Biphenyls and other Dangerous Substances) (England and Wales) Regulations 2000 

2. —(1) The Environmental Protection (Disposal of Polychlorinated Biphenyls and other Dangerous Substances) (England and Wales) Regulations 2000( c ) are amended as follows. 

(2) In regulation 2(1), in the definition of “PCBs”, for “4(3) and (4), 5(3), 6(2) and 9(3)” substitute “4(3A), (3C) and (4), 5(3) and 9(3)”. 

(3) In regulation 4— 

(a) in paragraph (1), for “(2), (3)” substitute “(2) to (3D)”; 

