The Integrated Pollution Prevention and Control Act has been adopted, but more attention needs to be paid to ensuring effective implementation.

Part 1 of the Environmental Protection Act 1990 will be replaced by the Pollution Prevention and Control Act 1999.

LAPC will gradually be superseded by two new local-authority regulated regimes under the Pollution Prevention and Control Act 1999.

Pollution Prevention and Control Act 1999 9 Part I of the EPA 1990 also provides a robust legislative system to regulate industrial processes involved in the treatment of certain prescribed wastes.

As this legislation is being phased in during the next few years, both Part 1 of The Environmental Protection and The Pollution Prevention and Control Act 1999 will co-exist until around 2007, whereupon the former will be revoked from statute.

The 1991 Regulations remain in force in Scotland, although they are in practice superseded by the Pollution Prevention and Control (Scotland) Regulations 2000 and 2012 made under the Pollution Prevention and Control Act 1999.