The Environment Agency has published a Regulatory Position Statement  (RPS) that applies to the pEPR obligations contained in the Producer Responsibility Obligations (Packaging and Packaging Waste) Regulations 2024. The RPS delays the introduction of nation of sale and self-managed organisational waste data collection and reporting under pEPR until 2026. The Environment Agency will withdraw this RPS on 31st December 2026.

ISO 27001 / GDPR / Data Protection ICO Registration Fee Increase   From 17th February, the fee that must be paid to the ICO by data controllers is increasing by 29.8% across all tiers to take account of inflationary increases and in order to provide the ICO with the necessary funding to discharge their legal responsibilities: Charges for Tier 1 (10 or fewer employees or an annual turnover of less than £632,000 per annum) are increased from £40 to £52 Charges for Tier 2 (250 o

The HSE has released its annual statistics for work-related ill health and workplace injuries for the 2023/24 period. Key findings include: Work-Related Ill Health : Approximately 1.7 million workers reported suffering from work-related ill health, a figure consistent with the previous year's 1.8 million. Notably, around half of these cases were attributed to stress, depression, or anxiety, totalling an estimated 776,000 cases. While this number remains higher than pre-pandem