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Information on waste batteries excluded from the regulations, definitions and battery types.
How UK environment agencies assess noise, legal requirements for managing noise, noise impact assessments and noise management plans. This replaces H3 guidance.
When to reject hazardous waste and what to do if you are the consignee, carrier, producer or holder.
How the Environment Agency and its partners will maintain and upgrade flood defences in the Thames Estuary to adapt to rising sea levels.
How to apply for an environmental permit if you rear pigs and poultry intensively, including how to comply with and change the permit.
How the new nuclear power station programme is supported through skills development, investment, regulatory justification and the work of the independent nuclear regulators.
How to choose a waste recovery or disposal method and assess its risks when applying for or changing your bespoke environmental permit.
This guidance explains the standards (appropriate measures) that are relevant to regulated facilities with an environmental permit to treat or transfer all types of WEEE.
A list of fluorinated gas (F gas) incumbent quota holders and authorisation managers in Great Britain (England, Scotland and Wales) for 2024 to 2026.
Use the pre-application advice service to find out the likelihood of getting a licence, what restrictions it may have and what you need to send with your application.
Guidance to help organisations choose a monitoring approach for stack emissions to air that meets Environment Agency and MCERTS requirements (formerly part of M2).
This guidance is aimed at helping readers understand the permitting and other requirements specific to Radioactive Substances Regulation.
Non-nuclear radioactive substances regulation (RSR), when you need a permit, types of permits, how to apply, change (vary), transfer or surrender your permit.
Find out if you need to report packaging data under extended producer responsibility (EPR) for packaging.
How to develop a management system for carrying out flood risk activities under an environmental permit.
This exemption allows you to temporarily store waste at a collection point before recovering or disposing of the waste elsewhere.
Environment Agency regulatory position on when you can carry out a small scale remediation scheme or trial to treat contaminated soil and groundwater.
Reduce the risk of disease and find out where listed diseases have been confirmed in England and Wales
The design requirements that you need to meet in your environmental permit application and how to comply with your permit.
Appoint a panel engineer for your reservoir.
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