Month: October 2017

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Press release: Vital renovation for sea wall at Walton on the Naze

The sea wall at Walton on the Naze helps to protect a wetland site of designated international importance under the Ramsar Convention.

The repair work will ensure the wall remains an effective flood defence for years to come and prevent any further deterioration.

Starting later this month, a section of the tidal defence embankment will be refurbished over a 3 month period.
The project will see the renovation of a 1.7 kilometre stretch of the embankment, running north up the coast from Foundry Lane.

The work is being carried out by civil engineering contractors Breheny and will take place on the crest and seaward sides of the embankment.

Work is due to begin in the week commencing 9 October 2017 and normal working hours will be from 7:30am to 5pm, Monday to Friday.

Kerry Bentley, Asset Performance Officer for the Environment Agency, said:

This is very important work and will ensure the sea wall can continue to provide an effective level of protection in the area for years to come.

The damaged sections of existing sea wall will be removed and new sections will be added.

The old blocks will be placed at the toe of the sea wall as habitat and to help reduce wave impact.

In order to ensure the safe delivery of these works we will need to redirect short sections of the footpath to the rear of the wall.

Link: Press release: Vital renovation for sea wall at Walton on the Naze
Source: Environment Agency

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ICO Fee and Registration Changes in 2018

Data Protection Fees

 

The ICO has published a blog post to ‘clarify how the fees that data controllers have to pay to the ICO are changing’; however the post provided no actual figures for the new fees.

Currently organisations who process personal data ‘notify’ the ICO on an annual basis (unless in the rare circumstances they are exempt).  Most SMEs pay the £35 annual fee and appear on the ICO’s register of data controllers.

CHECK YOUR REGISTRATION HERE: https://ico.org.uk/about-the-ico/what-we-do/register-of-data-controllers/

The deadline for EU member states to implement the General Data Protection Regulations (GDPR) is May 2018 and the UK Parliament is already progressing a Data Protection Bill to meet that commitment.

The ICO have said that when this new legislation comes in to force:

there will no longer be a requirement to notify the ICO in the same way.

BUT

The Digital Economy Act did make provisions for funding the ICO in another way and those fees have not yet been approved by Parliament.

The new payment system will take in to account an organisation’s size, turnover and the amount of personal data it is processing. With a Three Tier System currently being proposed.

It is unclear how the “amount of personal data ” will be determined.

Despite the lack of information, this new system is proposed to “go live” 1st April 2018, however if you have already paid under the current scheme, you may not be affected until the renewal.

More details to follow…

Link: ICO fee and registration changes next year
Source: ICO .org.uk

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The Education (Hazardous Equipment in Schools) (Removal of Restrictions on Use) (Wales) Regulations 2017 / Rheoliadau Addysg (Offer Peryglus mewn Ysgolion) (Dileu’r Cyfyngiadau ar Ddefnydd) (Cymru) 2017

These Regulations revoke the Education (Schools and Further and Higher Education) Regulations 1989 (“the 1989 Regulations”) (regulation 2). This removes the requirement in the 1989 Regulations—

Mae’r Rheoliadau hyn yn dirymu Rheoliadau Addysg (Ysgolion ac Addysg Bellach ac Uwch) 1989 (“Rheoliadau 1989”) (rheoliad 2). Mae hyn yn dileu’r gofyniad yn Rheoliadau 1989—

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The Education (Hazardous Equipment in Schools) (Removal of Restrictions on Use) (Wales) Regulations 2017 / Rheoliadau Addysg (Offer Peryglus mewn Ysgolion) (Dileu’r Cyfyngiadau ar Ddefnydd) (Cymru) 2017


Source: Legislation .gov.uk