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Minimising Risk, Maximising Benefit - EAUC 10th Annual Conference

NetRegs: Environmental Compliance Help

for Universities and Colleges

Nottingham UniversityTuesday 11th April 2006

Tim Fanshawe - NetRegs Business Development Manager

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Overview

• Sustainable Development (SD) & Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR): the Big Picture!

• Background to NetRegs concept & current situation

• Future possibilities & guidelines for the Education sector

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Sustainable Development & Corporate Social Responsibility: the Big Picture

• EU Thematic Strategies to Member State Regulations

• An International Issue

• Insurance Industry pressures - climate change

• Supply chain and customer pressures

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Small Businesses: pressures & constraints

• lack of time and resource

• fear of legislation and the regulator

• lack of consistency of information

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Survey of Business AwarenessSME-nvironment 2005

93% - unaware of impact they could have on environment

86% - cannot name any environmental legislation unprompted

75% - do not have an environmental policy

94% - do not have an environmental management system

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Business Support Organisations across whole UK

BSI

Trade Associations

Environment Agency

Scottish Environment Protection Agency

Environment andHeritage Service NI

Local Authorities and LGA

Cabinet Office Regulatory Impact Unit

FSA

Better Regulation Task Force

Departmental Regulation Units

ScottishExecutive

Small Business Service / Business Connect Wales

RDAs

Govt Offices

DTI

DEFRA

NAW DoE NI

HSE

Interaction of key public and private sector bodies with SMEs on environmental issues

A lack of joined up thinking increases the administrative burden on small businesses

NetRegs: delivering consistent information across the UK for SMEs

4.0 million UK businesses(99.2% of which are SMEs)

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High risk,more

intervention

polluters take

responsibility

risk-based

proportionate

focussed on

outcomes

cost-effective

trust-based

What modern regulation looks like

Low risk,

less intervention

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The different regulatory approaches

clearoutcomes

Direct regulation Alternative approaches

Bespoke permits

Standard permits

Registrations

Directly applying

legislation

Environmental taxes

Trading schemes

Negotiated or

voluntary agreements

Education and advice

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What modern regulation means

An approach that delivers for the environment and for business:

– focusing on outcomes

– risk-based (targeted protection at lower cost)

– changing attitudes - regulatory prescription to corporate responsibility

– using alternatives to direct regulation

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The SME Engagement & Retention Process

Not interested

Interested butNOT active

Getting Started

Want an EMS& ContinuousImprovement

Want to go beyond compliance

Achieved BS8555, EMAS,ISO14001

Continuous Business Improvement Process

'the road to compliance and resource efficiency' 85% of 4m businesses are here!

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What is NetRegs?

A UK wide initiative built in partnershipby the three environmental regulators in the UK

Free, anonymous and available 24 hours a day

A website designed to help small businesses understand their environmental obligations

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How can NetRegs help businesses?

There are four ways to get information:

• Detailed advice for business groups - Sector Guidelines (over 100 are covered)

• General advice on specific issues - Management Guidelines

• Links to key future and current legislation - Legislation

• Links to other information/organisations - More Resources

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Website Demonstration

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Achievements so far

• Survey of Business Awareness

• guidance for over 100 sectors as well as general guidelines and information

• Focus Groups

• Excellent feedback from businesses, trade associations and business support organisations

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Current Activities

• Maintaining & adding content

• Improving user-friendliness

• Promoting the site

• Enhancing the service

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The Future for NetRegs

• Hampton Review

• BREW Projects for 2006

• Business Development and Revenue Generation

• New sector specific guidelines for Education

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The SME Engagement & Retention Process

Basic Registration & Manual Updates

• More Resources e.g. links to Envirowise

NetRegs Basic Compliance Information:

• Sector Guidelines

• Management Guidelines

• Future Legislation

Illegal Waste TippingProgramme Activities

Sustainable Business Award Schemes

IPP Directive Life CycleAssessment & Ecodesign

Established BREW work

Yr 2 BREW fund areas

Illegal Waste Year 2 work Incorporating:

• SME Strategy • What do I do with my waste? Tool (£150k)

Not interested Interested but NOT active

Getting Started Want an EMS& ContinuousImprovement

Want to go beyond compliance

Continuous Business Improvement Process

Achieved BS8555, EMAS, ISO14001

85% of 4m businesses are here!

Established Core NetRegs site

Other NetRegs development areas

Guides to usingNetRegs

Personalise NetRegs to meet business demand for automatic updates (£1,200k) [regionalisation]

ReducedInsurance Premiums

ReducedLicence &Permit Charges

Incentives

NetRegs Compliance Self assessment Tools (£400k)

Business Directories forPollution Abatement Equipment

Additional NetRegs Sectors

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Conclusions

• Delivering consistency

• Helping business deal with environmental risks

• Driving sustainability

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Workshop Questions

1 Where do you look for information? (eg internet , trade press, websites etc ?)

2 How do you search for information? (eg keywords, topic areas etc ?)

3 What style of language works best? (eg e-newsletters, academic docs etc ?)