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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", including when legislating.
  
  @ 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", including when legislating.
  
  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", including when legislating.
  
  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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