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Check how coastal flood and erosion risks will be managed in your area.
Find out if and by when you need to apply for a medium combustion plant directive (MCPD) environmental permit to meet air quality requirements.
Rules you must follow, who’s responsible, when to tell the Environment Agency and what to do if you get an enforcement notice.
Checklists to help you prepare for flooding.
Find out about flood risk activity exemptions, which used to need flood defence consent, and how to register them.
How climate change agreements (CCAs) work, who is eligible and which sector associations hold a CCA.
How the Environment Agency charges for activities that need an environmental permit and the charges you must pay.
How you must control and monitor emissions from your activities that may cause pollution.
What you must do to manage manure, fertiliser and soil to prevent runoff, erosion and leaching.
Map showing the geographical areas of the Environment Agency's operations.
Find the 2022 update to the river basin management plans which describe the challenges that threaten the water environment and how these challenges can be managed.
How to assess the impact of your activity in estuarine (transitional) and coastal waters for the Water Framework Directive (WFD). The guidance is called Clearing the Waters for All.
How to assess household and non-household packaging from 2024 onwards if you’re a UK organisation affected by extended producer responsibility (EPR) for packaging.
What you need to do before you send waste to a landfill site.
Find out if your land is in a nitrate vulnerable zone (NVZ) and how to appeal.
Your responsibilities to check equipment for fluorinated gas (F gas) leaks.
How developers can get advice on Nationally Significant Infrastructure Projects (NSIPs) and applications for planning, permission in principle and technical details consent.
Uses of fluorinated gases (F gases) that are banned or will be banned in the future.
If you put EEE on the UK market you must follow rules on both the EEE you sell and the EEE that becomes waste (WEEE).
How to manage the burial of animal remains to prevent or limit groundwater pollution.
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