Legal Register Thirty four (34) new UK EHS & HR laws came into force in March 2025. With a further 52 coming into force later in 2025. There were no new Acts coming into force from either the UK or the devolved parliaments. Notable amongst the new safety Regulations is the Merchant Shipping (Light Dues) Regulations 2025 278. The Mercha...

Legal Register Twenty one (21) new UK EHS & HR laws came into force in February 2025. With a further 32 coming into force later in 2025. One new Act, the Water (Special Measures) Act 2025 5, came into force on the 24th February. Notable amongst the new safety Regulations is the Online Safety Act 2023 (Category 1, Category 2A and Catego...

UK Legal Register Forty two (42) new UK EHS & HR laws came into force in January 2025. This is from a total of 67 new EHS & HR laws set to be published this year so far. No new Acts from the UK or devolved parliaments in January. Of the 31 sets of Regulations and 11 Orders the majority were amending existing laws. You can see details o...

Legal Register A busy period for amending EHS & HR laws in the UK at the end of 2024. We added 54 new laws some of which come into force in 2025. As for the month of December forty (40) new laws came into effect. Notably the Aviation Safety (Amendment) Regulations 2024 1290, the Producer Responsibility Obligations (Packaging and Packag...

Legal Register Introduction November 2024 marked a significant month for legal updates in the UK, with 32 new Environmental, Health, Safety (EHS), and Human Resources (HR) laws coming into effect. This legislation reflects ongoing efforts to address critical issues such as climate change, workplace safety, and environmental protection....

New UK EHS Laws in September 2024 New Laws Fourteen (14) new EHS laws came into force in the UK during September 2024. Looking forward there are currently 20 new EHS related laws coming into force in October, 9 in November and 7 in December. Three are scheduled for 2025. One new Act of interest to those working in environment, safety o...

New Laws Sixteen (16) new EHS laws came into force in the UK during August 2024. New EHS laws in August 2024 by Family (category) The Circular Economy (Scotland) Act 2024 13 came into force in August. The Act requires the Scottish Ministers to prepare and publish a circular economy strategy; to make provision about circular economy tar...

We monitor change across 50 families of new law and July was a quiet month. Everyone is on the beach or at the Olympics! Notable changes to agricultural policy in Scotland and other agricultural laws was the main highlight. New planning law for the Hornsea 4 offshore wind farm was published. Employment law saw amendments on tipping (gr...

Summary Parliament is prorogued which means that the legislative timetable is suspended and bills are mostly not carried over to prevent one parliament binding a successor. Which means its a quiet time for new EHS laws! Legal Register New Laws Twenty two (22) new EHS laws came into force during June 2024. This compares to 2024's highpo...

Summary April was a very busy month here at Spongl HQ. We backed-up our Airtable Bases in Supabase and are busy migrating full-text articles. We fixed a bug meaning we can target and update our records for laws that have been changed by new laws. We processed all the new laws that get released in April. We harvested all the regulatory ...

Good news! We've reviewed our plan and pricing structure to better align with our social mission. The short announcement showcases our key plans: • STARTER - FREE w/ download • SUPPORTER - the ""pay what you can afford and think its worth"" option for some organisations. • SPONSOR - the ""what I would want if I was still doing complian...

Roles & Responsibilities Spongl is pleased to announce that we've dropped some super new reports into one of our Shared Bases! Here's the link: https://airtable.com/appYRKIg2jp7QXeGp/shrBke3qgN649Q4ho These have been built by aggregating the results of our models for Roles and Responsibilities (R&R). There is lots of value here for any...

Airtable Shares PUBLIC Shared Views 💙 https://airtable.com/appRe94r8wBTgGlUs/shrVx7cTCkvN3IT3R 💚 https://airtable.com/appH5esgHf6Pgf6vq/shrxW0wDsUzN8fvjh CrUD* Law Base *Create, Read, Update, Delete 💙💚 https://airtable.com/apprMouYhiAaqmH43/shrON0e84CgZRjO6j • MORE DATA>> Over 50 Fields of data. • LESS TIME>> Fields are organised into ...

TL; DR Marketing work during December and January came to fruition with at least two University courses agreeing to publicise and use our resources with their student cohort. Our update process led us to publish a comprehensive list of UK coronavirus laws. We completed our V1.0 when the code that generates data for various classificati...

Monthly Review for December 2023 Update We have a published update schedule. https://airtable.com/appNYgYNqE6TOsm3g/shriBRrUHef67L7sb However, at the beginning of December we updated our FULL Legal Register Table! The reasons for this were a change to the format of the `Name` field and combining the formally separate Environment and H&...

See this and past posts from the blog: https://spongl-blog.softr.app/ TL;DR 2x Environment and 7x H&S Families of Laws are included in the Update Process for November 2023 Update Process for November *This blog post is revised & appended over the course of the month to describe the execution and results of the update processes Ref: htt...

August saw us publish our update schedule https://airtable.com/appNYgYNqE6TOsm3g/shriBRrUHef67L7sb Therefore, October had to necessarily involve putting the meat to the bones of the schedule. Existing Laws Three sets of fields were identified as surfacing important information about changes to the underlying laws: 1. Live? status. Is t...

legl.cc is pleased to release full text articles for German health and safety, and environmental law. Links to the tables can be found here https://airtable.com/shrhWR6OsenXgV18B Translations to English are sometimes provided by the German authorities. These have been used when available and this is indicated in a new column in the Leg...

German Legal Register 🇩🇪 We released the first set of health, safety and environmental legislation for GERMANY 🇩🇪 as open data today! This is part of the https://legl.cc project that started this year. The data is shared using Airtable's native data sharing views. Check-out the share links here: https://airtable.com/shrhWR6OsenXgV18B T...

We released the first set of health, safety and environmental legislation for DENMARK 🇩🇰 as open data today! This is part of the https://legl.cc project that started this year. The data is shared using Airtable's native data sharing views. Check-out the share links here: https://airtable.com/shrhWR6OsenXgV18B There are 2 tables of data...

legl.cc is pleased to release full text articles for Russian health and safety, and environmental law. Links to the tables can be found here https://airtable.com/shrhWR6OsenXgV18B Here's an example. This is the Russian labor code which is the the Minimal package and higher for health & safety law.

We released the first set of health, safety and environmental legislation for RUSSIA 🇷🇺 as open data today! This is part of the https://legl.cc project that started this year. The data is shared using Airtable's native data sharing views. Check-out the share links here: https://airtable.com/shrhWR6OsenXgV18B There are 2 tables of data:...

We released the first set of health, safety and environmental legislation for TURKEY 🇹🇷 as open data today! This is part of the https://legl.cc project that started this year. The data is shared using Airtable's native data sharing views. Check-out the share links here: https://airtable.com/shrhWR6OsenXgV18B There are 2 tables of data:...

We released the first set of health, safety and environmental legislation for AUSTRIA 🇦🇹 as open data today! This is part of the https://legl.cc project that started this year. The data is shared using Airtable's native data sharing views. Check-out the share links here: https://airtable.com/shrhWR6OsenXgV18B There are 2 tables of data...

We released the first set of health, safety and environmental legislation for FInland as open data today! This is part of the https://legl.cc project that started this year. The data is shared using Airtable's native data sharing views. Check-out the share links here: https://airtable.com/shrhWR6OsenXgV18B There are 2 tables of data: (...

We released the first set of health, safety and environmental legislation for Scotland as open data today! This is part of the https://legl.cc project that started this year. The data is shared using Airtable's native data sharing views. Check-out the share links here: https://airtable.com/shrhWR6OsenXgV18B There are 2 tables of data: ...

We released the first set of health, safety and environmental legislation for Northern Ireland as open data today! This is part of the https://legl.cc project that started this year. The data is shared using Airtable's native data sharing views. Check-out the share links here: https://airtable.com/shrhWR6OsenXgV18B There are 2 tables o...

We released the first set of health, safety and environmental legislation for England and Wales as open data today! This is part of the https://legl.cc project I started this year. The data is shared using Airtable's native data sharing views. Check-out the share links here: https://airtable.com/shrhWR6OsenXgV18B There are 2 tables of ...

We released the first set of 🇳🇴 Norwegian health, safety and environmental legislation as open data today! This is part of the https://legl.cc project I started this year. The data is shared using Airtable's native data sharing views. Check-out the share links here: https://airtable.com/shrhWR6OsenXgV18B The code used to parse the law ...

We released the first set of 🇸🇪 Swedish health, safety and environmental legislation as open data yesterday. This is part of the https://legl.cc project I started this year. The data is shared using Airtable's native data sharing views. Check-out the share links here: https://airtable.com/shrhWR6OsenXgV18B The code used to parse the la...