Introduction The Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI) (Credit Rating Agencies) (Amendment) Regulations, 2023, target Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) rating providers to ensure transparency and reliability. These regulations represent a significant advancement for the ESG rating industry. In a related development, the Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB) issued a show cause notice under…
CPCB has release notice regarding the generation & transfer of the EPR certificate on centralized EPR portal. Extended producer responsibility (EPR) is a strategy to add all of the estimated environmental costs associated with a product throughout the product life cycle to the market price of that product, contemporarily mainly applied in the field of…
The Ministry of Environment, Forest & Climate Change has released a Plastic Waste Management (Amendment) Rules, 2023. In the Plastic Waste Management Rules, 2016, (hereinafter referred to as the said rules), in rule 10, in the subrule (5), in the provision, for the figures “2023” occurring at both places, the figures “2024” shall respectively be…
The Central Pollution Control Board has issued direction to airlines operators under section 5 of the Environment (Protection) Act, 1986 for for phasing out of single use plastic (SUP) & operating registration as per EPR guidelines. MOEF&CC mandated the banning of certain Single Use Plastic (SUP) items and specified the minimum thickness of carry bags.…
Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB) has released a new notification for the removal of difficulties in the implementation of EPR guidelines. Extended producer responsibility (EPR) is a strategy to add all of the estimated environmental costs associated with a product throughout the product life cycle to the market price of that product, contemporarily mainly applied…
Central Pollution Control Board has been released direction to the all State Pollution Control Boards under Section 5 of the Environment Protection Act, 1986 regarding implementation of guidelines for EPR on Plastic Packaging. Guidelines on EPR for Plastic Packaging were notified by MoEF&CC on February 16, 2022 in Schedule – II of 4th amendment of…
Central Pollution Control Board has been given a direction for Plastic Waste Processor under section 5 of the Environment (Protection) Act, 1986 to SPCBs/PCCs regarding timely completion of physical verification of Plastic Waste Processors registered on the centralized EPR portal for plastic Packaging. as per section 6.1(a) of the above Guidelines, “The following entities shall…
The office of the PR. Commissioner of Customs Maharashtra has been released standing order for clarification about applicability of Plastic Waste Management (PWM) Rules, 2016, as amended from time to time, on imported goods-reg. In this order definitions of importer, applicability of this rules, etc. is defined as per PWM rules. Some of definitions and…
The Central Pollution Control Board has been released notification to E-Commerce Companies for closure directions under section 5 of the Environment (Protection) Act, 1986 for Non-Compliance of Plastic Waste Management Rule, 2016. MOEF&CC mandated the banning of certain Single Use Plastic (SUP) items and specified the minimum thickness of carry bags. As per Rules 4(1)(c)…