IPPC will be based on the same principles as its predecessors. However, more installations will be subject to IPPC, including some currently regulated under LAPC, as well as many new to control. Where installations are subject to IPPC, a wider range of environmental impacts will be taken into account. The majority of installations currently regulated under LAPC will continue to have only releases to air controlled. An inventory of releases of substances from processes subject to integrated pollution control, called the pollution inventory, is published annually for England and Wales.
Public registers cover related areas as well, including waste regulation and discharges to water.
A permanent record is kept of the location of disposals of special waste within a landfill or at an underground site. Regulations can be made under section 142 to obtain relevant information from manufacturers, importers or suppliers about specific chemicals for the purposes of assessing their potential for causing pollution of the environment or harm to human health. Regulations can be made under section 140 to prohibit or restrict the importation into the UK, use, supply and storage of a substance, as considered appropriate to prevent the substance from causing pollution of the environment or harm to human health or to the health of animals or plants. We must notify the European Commission when taking forward such measures, and must be mindful of our single market obligations.