The Environmental Liability Directive (ELD) could have a significant effect on your
business
The Environmental Liability Directive (ELD) is aimed at preventing significant environmental
damange by forcing businesses that pollute to pay for the cost of prevention and
remediation.
When it comes into effect, the new Directive will have far reaching effects and
could have an impact on every business that disharges pollution. The Environment
Agency will have enhanced powers to require businesses to:
- 'put right' environmental damage that has occurred
- provide 'complementary remediation' to similar resources if original damage cannot
be put right
- compensate for the time that a resource has suffered damage
EEF and Chubb Insurance are working
together to deliver a series of seminars to
explain to manufacturing businesses the impact that this new legislation will have
on their business.