DVSA and Environment Agency target illegal waste transportation
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he Environment Agency and Driver and Vehicle Standards Agency (“DVSA”) will be carrying
out joint operations across England targeting the transportation of illegal waste and to improve road safety.
T e two organisations have signed a joint memorandum agreeing to a series of measures aimed at combating illegal waste operators.
DVSA and the Agency will use their ‘combined enforcement powers’ to address the problem, the two organisations have said.
T e agreement will see DVSA staff located within EA teams to ensure a coordinated and eff ective approach and sharing of information between the two bodies to increase the eff ectiveness of roadside enforcement on waste industry vehicles up and down the country.
As well as this, the two organisations will provide their enforcement teams with intelligence relating to waste industry operators.
Both organisations will work together to identify high risk or illegal goods vehicle operators involved in waste transport and reducing the number of seriously and serially non-compliant waste industry vehicles on England’s roads.
Sir James Bevan, Chief Executive of the Environment Agency said: “We want to protect people and communities from the impact that vehicle and waste crime can have and create a level playing fi eld for all operators. T is Memorandum of Understanding with the DVSA will help both organisations work with the waste industry to improve compliance and vehicle and driver safety standards. To help us with this, we are encouraging people to check with the Environment Agency if the company they are contracting to take their waste away is a fully registered waste carrier.”
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For a number of years, the Environment Agency and DVSA have worked together to stop waste crime, making sure companies are operating legally and vehicle safety is improved.
T is agreement will enable the two organisations to tackle waste crime more effi ciently by intervening earlier in the waste chain and using prevention tactics, the organisations claimed.
DVSA’s Chief Executive, Gareth Llewellyn, said: “DVSA priority is to protect you from unsafe drivers and vehicles. I am delighted that we will be
working with the Environment Agency to tackle those who illegally transport waste. By
combining our enforcement powers and intelligence we’ll be able work with
those who break the rules more eff ectively. DVSA traffi c examiners will issue fi nes to those waste carriers we fi nd to be operating in and unsafe manner. T ese operators are putting themselves and other road users at risk and pose a danger to our environment.”
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