This blog provides a brief overview of July’s Legal Updates, which are relevant to Quality, Environmental, Info Sec and Health & Safety to help your organisation stay aligned with the latest legal requirements.
How to use this Update:
- You should review these updates and decide whether they are applicable to your company.
- Add all relevant items to your legal resister and document your compliance.
- Ensure all policy and procedures align with the new governance and compliance requirements.
- Provide information and training to all relevant to ensure you remain compliant
- Please note ISO 14001, ISO 45001, ISO 27001 and other standards require you to conduct a compliance evaluation.
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Environment
9th July
Northern Ireland
The Environmental Protection (Single-use Vapes) (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2025
These Regulations will amend The Environmental Protection (Single-use Vapes). The Rule will strengthen the enforcement powers of the Department in the principal Regulations and safeguard against illegal single-use vapes re-entering the marketplace in Northern Ireland. Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2024 (the principal Regulations). The amendments will supplement the existing legislation and will ensure the proposed regulations are enforceable and apply equitably in Northern Ireland.
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Finance
15th July
UK
The Financial Services and Markets Act 2023 (Commencement No. 10 and Saving Provisions) Regulations 2025
Commencement of sections of the Act
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Finance
15th July
UK
The Financial Services and Markets Act 2000 (Markets in Financial Instruments) (Amendment) Regulations 2025
This instrument uses powers conferred by FSMA 2023 to amend the Financial Services and Markets Act 2000 (Markets in Financial Instruments) Regulations 2017 (MiFI Regulations), to give the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) fuller powers of direction in relation to commodity derivatives traded in the over-the-counter (OTC) market.
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Information Security
18th July
UK
The Protection and Disclosure of Personal Information (Amendment) Regulations 2025
This instrument will widen the range of circumstances in which individuals may apply to the registrar at Companies House to protect their personal information where it appears on the public register. Protection means that the registrar cannot make the
relevant information publicly available.
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Information Security
21st July
UK
The Online Safety Act 2023 (Commencement No. 6) Regulations 2025
They bring into force section 210 of the 2023 Act, which repeals the video-sharing platform regulatory regime under Part 4B of the Communications Act 2003 (c. 21) (“the 2003 Act”). Services known as “pre-existing Part 4B services” (defined in paragraph 1 of Part 1 of Schedule 17 to the 2023 Act) have been regulated under both the 2003 Act and the 2023 Act since entering a transition period on 10th January 2024. Detailed transitional arrangements are provided for in Schedule 17 to the 2023 Act.
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Environment
22nd July
UK
The Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment (Amendment, etc.) Regulations 2025
This Statutory Instrument (SI) amends the Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment
Regulations 2013 (“2013 WEEE Regulations”) by creating a new category of electrical and electronic equipment (EEE) for devices intended to be used for the consumption of tobacco, nicotine, vaping and other similar substances, such as e-cigarettes, vapes and heated tobacco products. It also shifts the obligation to finance the costs of dealing with the waste from EEE (“WEEE”) supplied by overseas sellers via online marketplaces (“OMPs”) to private households in the UK from those sellers
to the OMP operators.
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Information Security
22nd July
UK
The Online Safety Super-Complaints (Eligibility and Procedural Matters) Regulations 2025
These Regulations set out the criteria that an entity must meet to be an “eligible entity” for this purpose and contain provision about procedural matters relating to such complaints.
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Information security
25th July
UK
The Online Safety Super-Complaints (Eligibility and Procedural Matters) Regulations 2025
These Regulations set out the criteria that an entity must meet to be an “eligible entity” for this purpose and contain provision about procedural matters relating to such complaints.
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Environment
31st July
Wales
The Environment (Air Quality and Soundscapes) (Wales) Act 2024 (Commencement No. 2) Order 2025
Article 2 of this Order brings a number of provisions regarding local authority air quality reviews and smoke control into force on 31 July 2025, namely, sections 16, 17, 18, 19, 20 and 21 of, and Schedule 1 to, the Act.
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Environment
31st July
Wales
The Water (Special Measures) Act 2025 (Commencement No. 1) (Wales) Regulations 2025
Regulation 2 brings into force on 1 September 2025 sections 3 and 5 of the Act. Section 3 inserts new sections 205A, 205B and 205C into the Water Industry Act 1991, requiring relevant undertakers to prepare and publish annual pollution incident reduction plans. Section 5 inserts a new section 94A(3)(ea) into the Water Industry Act 1991 requiring sewerage undertakers to explain the use that is to be made of nature-based solutions in their drainage and sewerage management plans.
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ISO 14001, ISO 45001, ISO 27001 and other standards require you to conduct a compliance evaluation. If you haven’t done this, we can help.
Legal Register
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