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  Environment Bill - New Clause 1 - Environmental Principles: Public Authorities
  
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  @ MP voted no not to require public authorities to act in accordance with the following principles in relation to the environment: preventative action to avert damage; the precautionary principle; rectifying damage at source and "polluter pays".
  
  @ MP voted aye to require public authorities to act in accordance with the following principles in relation to the environment: preventative action to avert damage; the precautionary principle; rectifying damage at source and "polluter pays".
  
  The majority of MPs voted not to require public authorities to act in accordance with the following principles in relation to the environment: preventative action to avert damage; the precautionary principle; rectifying damage at source and "polluter pays". 
  
  The rejected principles would have applied when creating new laws.
  
  MPs were considering the Environment Bill.[1][2]
  
  The proposed new clause rejected in this vote was titled: ''Environmental Principles: Public Authorities'' and stated:
  
  :(1) A public authority, must, when exercising their functions (including the making of policy and legislation), act in accordance with the environmental principles currently in effect.
  :(2) The duty in subsection (1) does not apply to policy relating to Wales.
  :(3) In this section, âlegislationâ meansâ
  :(a) an Act of Parliament; and
  :(b) subordinate legislation.â
  
  The rejected new clause was accompanied by the following statement from its proposer:
  
  :This new clause would require public authorities to act in accordance with environmental principles when exercising their functions.
  
  Clause 16(5) of the Bill, as at the time of the vote[3] stated:
  
  :In this Part âenvironmental principlesâ means the following principlesâ
  :(a) the principle that environmental protection should be integrated into the making of policies,
  :(b) the principle of preventative action to avert environmental damage,
  :(c) the precautionary principle, so far as relating to the environment,
  :(d) the principle that environmental damage should as a priority be rectified at source, and
  :(e) the polluter pays principle.
  
  The Bill[3] required a Secretary of State to make "a policy statement on environmental principles" "explaining how the environmental principles should be interpreted and proportionately applied by Ministers of the Crown when making policy".
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  * [1] [https://bills.parliament.uk/bills/2593 Parliament's webpage on the Environment Bill], Parliament.uk
  * [2] [https://publications.parliament.uk/pa/bills/cbill/58-01/0009/en/20009en01.htm Explanatory notes to the Environment Bill, 30 January 2020], Parliament.uk
  * [3] [https://publications.parliament.uk/pa/bills/cbill/58-01/0220/200220.pdf Environment Bill as of 27 November 2020]. Parliament.uk
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