Guidance

Effect of exemptions review on Environment Agency low risk positions

How the Environment Agency will regulate operations that were covered by low risk positions prior to the exemptions review.

• From: Environment Agency
• Published: 27 March 2014

This publication was withdrawn on 2 October 2020

We have withdrawn RPS056 as the Low Risk Waste Positions it authorises are not required.

LRW002 has been replaced by RPS233 - Treating microbiological laboratory waste on the site where it is produced.

LRW108 is not used by business.

LRW173 has already been replaced by RPS8 - Leaving decommissioned pipes in the ground which has subsequently been withdrawn.

Applies to England

Documents

Low risk positions that cannot benefit from an exemption and require a regulatory position: RPS 056

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Details

The exemptions review concluded that a number of waste operations currently covered by low risk positions could never benefit from an exemption because the Waste Framework Directive does not allow an exemption to be granted.

The Environment Agency recognises that as a result of this decision some operators using low risk positions will need a permit. We have identified operations where we believe it is not in the public interest to have a permit because this would act as a disincentive to good waste management practices. This guidance lists those operations.

Published 27 March 2014