Guidance
OPRED Offshore Enforcement Policy
OPRED Offshore Enforcement Policy
- OPRED
- Guidance
- Regulation and Legislation
- Environmental protectionRegulation and legislation
- Upstream oil and gas
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Summary
OPRED’s policy explains how it enforces offshore environmental legislation, including proportionality, evidence gathering and decision scrutiny. It describes enforcement, improvement and prohibition notices, monetary penalties and prosecution, together with appeal arrangements and public registers. Criminal prosecution is retained for the most serious breaches.
Classifications: Environmental protection; environmental safety; pollution prevention.
Classifications: Regulation and legislation; safety legislation; regulatory requirements.
Classifications: Upstream oil and gas; oil and gas extraction; upstream petroleum.
Summary
Sets out OPRED’s policy for enforcing offshore regulatory requirements.
Themes: regulation and legislation.