Environmental Protection Agency Act, 1992
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Functions of Advisory Committee. |
28.—(1) (a) It shall be the duty of the Advisory Committee to make recommendations to the Agency or to the Minister relating to the functions of the Agency. | |
(b) The Agency or the Minister, as may be appropriate, shall have regard to any recommendations made by the Advisory Committee. | ||
(2) Without prejudice to the generality of subsection (1), the Advisory Committee may make recommendations— | ||
(a) to the Agency in relation to— | ||
(i) general staff requirements of the Agency but excluding decisions in relation to particular posts, individual employees, pay, grading and conditions, | ||
(ii) the provision of services, including laboratory facilities, required by the Agency, | ||
(iii) the provision of services, including laboratory facilities, by the Agency, | ||
(iv) standards, guidelines and codes of practice in relation to environmental protection, | ||
(v) the research programme of the Agency, its financing and priorities, | ||
(vi) the annual work programme of the Agency and priorities for different elements of the work programme, | ||
(vii) the organisation and promotion of training conferences and related matters for the purposes of environmental protection, | ||
(viii) any other matters related to the functions of the Agency, | ||
(b) to the Minister in relation to— | ||
(i) the assignment of specific functions to the Agency, | ||
(ii) the financing of the Agency, | ||
(iii) the activities or classes of activities for which the Agency should have licensing functions under Part IV , | ||
(iv) the assignment to the Agency of responsibility for specific environmental matters, | ||
(v) any other matter which, in the opinion of the Advisory Committee, is relevant to the effective performance by the Agency of its functions. | ||
(3) The Minister may consult the Advisory Committee on any matter arising in relation to his functions with respect to environmental protection. | ||
(4) The Advisory Committee shall be entitled to be informed at its meetings by the Director General, or a person appointed by him for the purpose, about the work of the Agency but (subject to section 110 ) not in relation to the detail of particular cases, and provided always that disclosure of such information shall not be in breach of section 39 . | ||
(5) Subject to section 110 , the Advisory Committee shall not as of right be entitled— | ||
(a) to receive specific information in relation to the processing of an application for, or the review of, an individual licence or revised licence under Part IV , or | ||
(b) to have any recommendations regarding such a licence taken into account. |