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Waste and Energy
Simon Colvin, Partner, Weightmans
Laura Brealey, Senior Associate, Bevan Brittan
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What’s Hot in the World of
Waste? Simon Colvin – Partner
Weightmans LLP
0161 233 7356/07766 366096
@envlawyer
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Summary
• Circular Economy
Package & Brexit
• WRAP Collections
Project
• Separate Collections
and TEEP
• Extended Producer
Responsibility
Schemes
• Transfrontier
Shipment of Waste
• Recycling Credits
• Duty of Care
• Non-compliant
operations
• Residual liability for
historic sites
• Contractual
considerations
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Questions?
• Responsible for waste collection/treatment
services?
• Considering redesign of services?
• Considering amending or varying existing
contracts?
• Suffer from fly tipping/waste crime?
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Quiz
• What does TEEP stand for?
• Current estimated cost of waste crime to UK
economy?
• What is the overall revised 2030 CEP target?
• Number of fly tipping incidents across England in
2016?
• Cost savings to LAs if producers responsible for
cost of collecting litter?
• Approximately how many tonnes of recycled
material did the UK export in 2016?
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Circular Economy Package (1)
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CEP (2)
• 2 Dec ’15 published by EC (round 2)
• 4 new legislative proposals – waste generally,
packaging, landfill and WEEE
• Improve waste management practices in line
with waste hierarchy
• Long term vision and strategy to guide
investment
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CEP (3)
• revised EU targets for recycling 65% of municipal
waste and 75% of packaging waste by 2030
• new binding target to reduce landfill to a
maximum of 10% of total waste by 2030
• improve waste management, new investments in
recycling capacity, avoid overcapacity in
incineration and mechanical-biological treatment
• But Brexit?
– New directives in 2017 - yes EU work plan
– Part of transitional arrangements?
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CEP (4)
• Hot off press (14/03) MEPs approve stricter
targets:
– 70% municipal waste by 2030
– 85% packaging waste
– 5% prepared for reuse
– 10% packaging reuse
• UK opposed, now to MS for approval
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CEP (5)
• If not CEP, then what?
– More EfW – FCC
– Extended producer responsibility schemes
– Our own CEP
– TEEP revision
– Industrial Strategy – very limited information
– DEFRA 25 year Environment Plan? Spring
2017
– Strategic waste plan?
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WRAP Collections Project (1)
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WRAP Collections Project (2)
October 2016
• >100 different approaches
• DEFRA commission WRAP
study
• All households recycle
same core set of materials
• Fewer collection and sorting
systems
• Common container colour
system
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WRAP Collections Project (3)
• 5 point plan – report back Spring’17
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Separate Collection/TEEP
• Requirement for separate collection
– EU – WFD
– UK – 2011 Waste Regulation (E&W)
by 1 January 2015, to set up separate
collections of paper, plastic, metal and
glass
• But only if TEEP
• 4 out of 321 councils in England no changes on
basis not TEEP
• CEP plans to remove TEEP/Brexit
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Extended Producer
Responsibility Schemes (1) • 2020 50% recycling target for municipal waste
(>65% by 2030)
“by 2020, the preparing for re-use and the recycling of waste materials
such as at least paper, metal, plastic and glass from households and
possibly from other origins as far as these waste streams are similar to
waste from households, shall be increased to a minimum of overall 50
% by weight”
• Recent DEFRA data suggests going to miss this
target
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Extended Producer
Responsibility Schemes (2) • England:-
– Focus on low grade commercial waste and not
higher grade household waste
– Also income generated not fed back into local
authorities via PRN system
– Minimum required to comply
– No full cost recovery
– PRN price fluctuations very difficult to
accommodate (e.g. risk allocation in contracts)
– No additional funding – Scotland and Wales
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Extended Producer
Responsibility Schemes (3) • Germany, Ireland and others focus on household waste,
the income generated goes back into municipal collections
with better results, full cost recovery and limited fluctuation
so limited risk
• English solution – EPR schemes
– True cost recovery
– Sliding scale tax levy – more then pay more etc…
– Funding back to Local Authorities and focus on
household collections
– Focus on litter – levy on producers with funding direct to
local authorities
• Welsh model – 65% target
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Transfrontier Shipment of
Waste • Chain of responsibility
• Green List
• Notifiable
• Volumes and quality
• Contamination
• EU/Global alignment?
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Recycling Credits (1)
• The recycling credits scheme was introduced by the
Government in 1990 through s52 of the Environmental
Protection Act 1990 (EPA). Subsequent amendments
to the scheme were included in s49 of the Clean
Neighbourhoods and Environment Act 2005 (CNEA.
• The EPA places a duty on the County Council, as a
Waste Disposal Authority (WDA), to pay waste
disposal credits to the District Councils as Waste
Collection Authorities (WCAs) when they divert and
retain waste from the household waste stream for
recycling
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Recycling Credits (2)
• The credit payment represents a portion of the net
saving of expenditure for the County Council where
such waste has not been disposed of through the
household waste stream (e.g. to landfill)
• The EPA (section 48(4)) allows the WDA to object to a
WCA retaining waste for recycling where the WDA
has made arrangements for that waste to be recycled.
Under sections 48(1) and (1A) of the EPA, the WCA
must deliver waste to such places as the WDA directs
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Recycling Credits (3)
• Issuing Objection and Directions Notices under
Sections 48 and 51 of the Environmental Protection
Act 1990
• Consultation with WCAs – act reasonably
• Together, or not?
• If not, how far apart?
– Timing of own plans – firm
– WCAs arrangements
– ON first then DN – logical
– Circumstances/context
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Duty of Care (1)
• Waste Crime - £1bn problem
• Role of duty of care – s34 EPA 1990
– applies to anyone who imports, produces, carries,
keeps, treats, disposes of, or are a dealer or broker
that has control of, controlled waste
– responsibility to take all reasonable steps to ensure
that when you transfer waste to another waste
holder that the waste is managed correctly
throughout its complete journey to disposal or
recovery
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Duty of Care (2)
• If you transfer waste to a waste treatment
facility for preliminary treatment, you will
generally still be responsible for the complete
recovery or disposal operation – but impact of
mixing?
• Relevance of contractual obligations?
• DEFRA White Paper – Spring 2017
• Proportionate responsibility and strict
application of DofC
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Non-compliant Operations
• Direct/Indirect liability
– Regulatory – Reg 38 EPR 2010
– Third party – nuisance/negligence
(NB have insurers been notified)
• Ability to compel compliance via contract?
– Additional monitoring/reporting obligations
– Greater oversight
– Financial penalties
– Termination
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Residual liability for historic
sites (1) • Migration of landfill gas/leachate
• WDAs (operating) and WCAs (disposing)
• Statutory liability – Permits/Licences or
Contaminated Land Regime etc…
• Tortious third party liability e.g.
nuisance/negligence
• Contractual liability to former /current land owners
– leases/licences
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Residual liability for historic
sites (2) • What, when, how, where, why?
• Other parties?
• Intervening acts?
• Costs of proposed action?
• Other sites/set a precedent?
• Too much or too little?
• Settlement agreements
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Contractual considerations (1)
• Opportunities to terminate or vary existing
contract
– Sheffield
– Peterborough
– Bristol
– …
• SoPC4/SoPF2
• PPP Policy Note: Early termination of contracts –
HM Treasury June 2015 Link
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Contractual considerations (2)
– Authority default
– Contractor default
– Force Majeure
– Voluntary Termination
• Need for approval from sponsor department and
Treasury
• Approval only if - significant improvement in the
delivery of public value for money will be achieved
• Need for a business case demonstrating this
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Contractual considerations (3)
• Essentially a comparison of:
– the present value of future PFI unitary charge
payments from the Authority to the contractor,
assuming that the existing PFI contract continues to
term, against
– the cost of contract termination plus the present value
of the cost of future delivery of an equivalent or
modified service
• If voluntary termination stacks up – original deal was a
bad one, or there is something in it for the Contractor
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Questions?
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District Energy Networks
Laura Brealey, Senior Associate, Bevan Brittan LLP
16 March 2017
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District Energy Delivery
Structures - Agenda • Introduction
• Why develop a Heat Network?
• How might a Local Authority be involved?
• Heat Network Delivery Structures
• Procuring a Heat Network
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Why develop a Heat Network?
What are your objectives? Group Discussion
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How might a Local Authority be
involved? • As landowner
• As heat off-taker
• As cash investor
• As lead Authority or working with others
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Heat Networks – Delivery
Structures (1) • Authority model
• Contractor model
• Shared Risk model
– Contractual
– Joint Venture
• ESCo? HeatCo?
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Delivery Structures (2) –
Authority model • Most risk, benefit and control
• Funder – borrow, grants?
• Heat demand – short term/long term
• Public sector – ESCo/HeatCo?
• Sub-contract discrete Works and O&M packages
to the private sector
• Risks retained within the ESCo/HeatCo
• Needs leadership and political support
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Delivery Structures (3) –
Contractor model • Least risk, benefit and control
• Funding – more expensive?
• Private sector expertise and experience
• Long term contracts to underpin funding costs
• Heat demand – certainty?
• Private sector ESCo/HeatCo
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Delivery Structures (4) –
Shared risk • … Somewhere in between …
• Authority leads on the areas where it has
experience, knowledge or can take risk
• Contractor leads on the other areas
• How?
– Commercial Contracts
– Joint Ventures
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Joint Ventures
Benefits & Costs Benefits
• Share in profit
• Access to information
• Rights to participate in the control of Heat Co
Costs
• Initial investment
• Additional funding
• Administration and bureaucracy
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Risk
• Heat uptake
• Heat demand
- Void risk
- Credit/collection risks
• “Normal” O&M risks
• Gas price risk
• Future regulation
• S.20 LTA
• Commercial risks
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Procurement
What are you procuring? • Design and Build?
• Operate and Maintain?
• Supply of technology?
• Customer relationship management/metering?
• Your own heat/energy?
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Which regulations apply and
when? • Utilities Contracts Regulations (UCR) may apply
– Basic principles – similar to the Public Contracts Regulations
(PCR), but simpler, more flexibility, more exemptions
– A “utility” engaging in a “utilities activity” can award contracts
under the UCR:
• Provision or operation of a fixed network providing a
service to the public re production, transport or distribution
of heat
• Supply of heat to such a network
• NB if procuring a partner who will form a separate JV entity or if
purchasing heat as a customer then Public Contracts
Regulations 2015 (PCR) likely to apply.
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Exemptions under the UCR?
• Entities operating in competitive markets:
• Exemption for contracts for the supply of electricity and /
gas in England, Scotland and Wales. Exemption only
covers supply, not other activities such as distribution.
• Exemption for contracts awarded to enable electricity
generation in England, Scotland and Wales.
• Exemption for the purchase of energy and fuel for the production
of energy (e.g. purchase of fossil fuels in order to generate
electricity).
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Procedures
• Open
• Restricted
• Negotiated
• Competitive Dialogue
• Frameworks?
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Practical issues in a successful
procurement • Preliminary market engagement
• Establish the parameters of the competition –
Future proofing?
• Establish partnering with other public bodies early
• Timing
• Early consideration of evaluation criteria
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