Environmental Information Regulations 2004
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The Environmental Information Regulations 2004 are UK regulations that give the public a right of access to environmental information held by public authorities, overseen and enforced by the Information Commissioner’s Office.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Environmental Information Regulations 2004 canonical | 8 |
| Environmental Information (Scotland) Regulations 2004 | 1 |
| The Environmental Information Regulations 2004 | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2004836 — resolving that mention is where its identity was fixed. The disambiguator weighed these candidate entities and picked the highlighted one (or “None”, minting a new entity). This is how homonymy is resolved: the same surface form can point to different entities.
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Environmental Information Regulations 2004 Context triple: [Information Commissioner’s Office, appliesStatutoryRegulation, Environmental Information Regulations 2004]
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A.
Environmental Protection Act 1990
The Environmental Protection Act 1990 is a key UK law that provides the framework for controlling pollution, managing waste, and protecting the environment.
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B.
Freedom of Information Act 2000
The Freedom of Information Act 2000 is a UK law that grants the public a general right of access to information held by public authorities, subject to certain exemptions.
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C.
Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999
The Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999 is Australia’s central environmental legislation, providing the legal framework for protecting nationally significant flora, fauna, ecological communities, and heritage places.
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D.
Emergency Planning and Community Right-to-Know Act
The Emergency Planning and Community Right-to-Know Act is a U.S. federal law that requires industries to report on the storage, use, and releases of hazardous chemicals to support emergency planning and inform the public about environmental risks.
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E.
Annex I Environmental Impact Assessment
Annex I Environmental Impact Assessment is a key component of the Protocol on Environmental Protection to the Antarctic Treaty that sets out procedures for evaluating and minimizing the environmental impacts of proposed activities in Antarctica.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Environmental Information Regulations 2004 Target entity description: The Environmental Information Regulations 2004 are UK regulations that give the public a right of access to environmental information held by public authorities, overseen and enforced by the Information Commissioner’s Office.
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A.
Environmental Protection Act 1990
The Environmental Protection Act 1990 is a key UK law that provides the framework for controlling pollution, managing waste, and protecting the environment.
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B.
Freedom of Information Act 2000
The Freedom of Information Act 2000 is a UK law that grants the public a general right of access to information held by public authorities, subject to certain exemptions.
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C.
Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999
The Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999 is Australia’s central environmental legislation, providing the legal framework for protecting nationally significant flora, fauna, ecological communities, and heritage places.
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D.
Emergency Planning and Community Right-to-Know Act
The Emergency Planning and Community Right-to-Know Act is a U.S. federal law that requires industries to report on the storage, use, and releases of hazardous chemicals to support emergency planning and inform the public about environmental risks.
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E.
Annex I Environmental Impact Assessment
Annex I Environmental Impact Assessment is a key component of the Protocol on Environmental Protection to the Antarctic Treaty that sets out procedures for evaluating and minimizing the environmental impacts of proposed activities in Antarctica.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (50)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
United Kingdom statutory instrument
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access to information law ⓘ |
| allowsExtension | up to 40 working days for complex or voluminous requests ⓘ |
| appealsHandledBy | Information Tribunal ⓘ |
| appliesTo |
NHS bodies
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central government departments ⓘ certain private bodies performing public functions ⓘ local authorities ⓘ public authorities ⓘ regulators and agencies with environmental responsibilities ⓘ |
| basedOn | Directive 2003/4/EC ⓘ |
| cameIntoForce | 2005-01-01 ⓘ |
| contains | exceptions to disclosure ⓘ |
| country | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| covers |
cost–benefit and other economic analyses used in environmental decision-making
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information on factors affecting or likely to affect the environment ⓘ information on measures and activities affecting or likely to affect the environment ⓘ information on the state of the elements of the environment ⓘ reports on the implementation of environmental legislation ⓘ the state of human health and safety as affected by the environment ⓘ |
| defines | environmental information ⓘ |
| doesNotExtendTo | Scotland ⓘ |
| enforcedBy | Information Commissioner’s Office ⓘ |
| exceptionType |
confidentiality of commercial or industrial information
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internal communications ⓘ manifestly unreasonable requests ⓘ protection of public security and national defence ⓘ protection of the environment to which the information relates ⓘ requests for unfinished or incomplete material ⓘ |
| implements | Directive 2003/4/EC on public access to environmental information ⓘ |
| jurisdiction |
England
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Northern Ireland ⓘ Wales ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| legalStatus | in force ⓘ |
| linkedTo | Aarhus Convention on Access to Information, Public Participation in Decision-making and Access to Justice in Environmental Matters ⓘ |
| madeUnder | European Communities Act 1972 ⓘ |
| overseenBy | Information Commissioner’s Office ⓘ |
| regulates |
procedures for requesting environmental information
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time limits for responding to environmental information requests ⓘ |
| relatedTo | Freedom of Information Act 2000 ⓘ |
| requires |
active dissemination of environmental information by public authorities
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public interest test for most exceptions ⓘ |
| rightGranted | right of access to environmental information ⓘ |
| setsTimeLimit | normally 20 working days to respond to a request ⓘ |
| shortName | EIR 2004 ⓘ |
| statutoryInstrumentNumber | 2004 No. 3391 ⓘ |
| subjectMatter | environmental information ⓘ |
| takesPrecedenceOver |
Freedom of Information Act 2000 for environmental information
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linked to:
Freedom of Information Act 2000
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| yearEnacted | 2004 ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
The pipeline generated the facts above by prompting gpt-5.1 with this entity's name + description and the instruction below.
Instruction
You are a knowledge base construction expert. Given a subject entity and a description of it, return factual statements that you know for the subject as a JSON list of dictionaries(triples), where keys must be "subject", "predicate" and "object". The number of facts may be very high, between 25 to 50 or more, for very popular subjects. For less popular subjects, the number of facts can be very low, like 5 or 10. # Requirements - If you don't know the subject at all, return an empty list. - If the subject is not a named entity, return an empty list. - Include at least one triple where predicate is "instanceOf". - Do not get too wordy. - Separate several objects into multiple triples with one object.
Input
Subject: Environmental Information Regulations 2004 Description of subject: The Environmental Information Regulations 2004 are UK regulations that give the public a right of access to environmental information held by public authorities, overseen and enforced by the Information Commissioner’s Office.
Referenced by (10)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
Information Commissioner’s Office
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appliesStatutoryRegulation
→
Environmental Information Regulations 2004
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Re-use of Public Sector Information Regulations 2005
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relatedTo
→
Environmental Information Regulations 2004
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Freedom of Information (Scotland) Act 2002
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relatedLegislation
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Environmental Information (Scotland) Regulations 2004
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linked to: Environmental Information Regulations 2004
linked to: Environmental Information Regulations 2004
Re-use of Public Sector Information Regulations 2015
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relatedTo
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Environmental Information Regulations 2004
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