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Guidance on how we assess the quality of your monitoring procedures through an operator monitoring assessment (OMA) and what you can do to prepare.
A guide to documenting how you’ve collected your packaging data, known as your ‘methodology’. Online marketplaces affected by extended producer responsibility (EPR) for packaging must submit a methodology. This is also recom…
The groundwater protection code of practice on how to prevent pollution from petrol, diesel and other fuel tanks.
These are the appropriate measures for emissions control at regulated facilities with an environmental permit for treating or transferring chemical waste.
How to restore your landfill site to meet your permit conditions.
Updated guidance for risk management authorities (RMAs) and project teams on how to use the PF calculator 2020 when developing FCERM projects.
Map of water management catchments and list of catchment coordinators.
Standard rules to operate a household, commercial and industrial waste transfer station with treatment.
When fishery owners and suppliers of live fish must get a fish health check. How to arrange the check and how to report the results.
The mechanisms, programmes and strategic initiatives for protecting and improving the water environment in each river basin district.
How the Environment Agency regulates discharges and radioactive waste disposals from Sellafield through environmental permitting.
As a risk management authority (RMA) you can submit your FCERM project proposal to apply for grant-in-aid (GIA) funding.
This guidance explains the standards (appropriate measures) that are relevant to regulated facilities with an environmental permit to treat or transfer waste temperature exchange equipment (WTEE).
Find out when to prepare a water cycle study for your proposed development plan document, or development, and what to focus on.
Setting out how regulatory bodies can co-ordinate the separate processes for coastal development consents in England.
Assessing the discharge of sanitary and other pollutants to surface waters.
Use the Environmental Quality Standards Directive (EQSD) list when scoping an activity for a Water Framework Directive (WFD) assessment.
The fundamental objective of radioactive substances regulation and the 10 regulatory principles we apply when carrying out our work.
For a facility with a treatment capacity of less than 100 tonnes of waste, or a combination of waste and non-waste each day accepting no more than 35,000 tonnes each year.
How to manage the risk of flooding on your campsite, caravan park, holiday park or residential park.
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