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Find out when to prepare a water cycle study for your proposed development plan document, or development, and what to focus on.
Public and private waste collectors must follow the regulation on collecting certain wastes separately.
What happens when the Environment Agency stops maintaining a flood or coastal erosion defence, how to challenge the decision and how to manage your risk afterwards.
Guidance to help UK administered aeroplane operators comply with the Carbon Offsetting and Reduction Scheme for International Aviation (CORSIA).
How to avoid causing groundwater pollution when developing cemeteries for burying human remains.
Standard rules for repairing and protecting up to 20 metres of main river bank using natural materials.
Environment Agency regulatory position on storing, treating, and using excavated utilities wastes classified under RPS 298.
Rules for shipping WEEE into and out of England from 1 January 2025. How to check you are using the correct code and control.
The mechanisms, programmes and strategic initiatives for protecting and improving the water environment in each river basin district.
How to apply to the Environment Agency to trade water abstraction rights with another party.
What you need to monitor and how to report your performance to meet your permit conditions.
Guidance for EEE producers on how to accurately report the weight of EEE they place on the market under the waste electrical and electronic equipment (WEEE) regulations.
Standard rules for installing a clear span bridge up to 8 metres span and 4.2 metres wide across a main river.
Find out if you need to report packaging data under extended producer responsibility (EPR) for packaging.
Check if you need an environmental permit for a closed loop ground source heating and cooling system.
These are waste treatment appropriate measures for a regulated facility permitted to store, treat or transfer (or both) non-hazardous and inert waste.
A guide to documenting how you’ve collected your non-UK suppliers’ household electrical and electronic equipment (EEE) data, known as your ‘methodology’. Online marketplaces as defined in the amended waste EEE regulations mu…
The Environment Agency's current terms for refunding your boat registration and arrangements for new part year registration.
Assessing the discharge of sanitary and other pollutants to surface waters.
Meeting the standard for stack emissions monitoring sample locations – requirements for measurement sections and sites. This guidance was formerly called M1.
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