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The types of work on or near a main river or sea defence that don't need an environmental permit so are excluded from the regulations.
From 1 October 2024, more materials facilities will need to sample and report their waste. Sampling and reporting will be more detailed and more frequent under the amended regulations.
Plan for climate change impacts to and from your site. How to integrate climate change adaptation into your management system under an environmental permit.
How to stop the spread and dispose of invasive non-native plants that can harm the environment in England.
How to apply to be an authorised treatment facility (ATF) for ELVs, comply with ELV regulations and meet recycling targets.
Find out how much nitrogen you can use on your land and how to plan and record your fertiliser use in a nitrate vulnerable zone (NVZ).
Find out how to express the mass of a fluorinated greenhouse gas (F gas) in terms of carbon dioxide equivalent to comply with regulations on F gases.
Qualification, compliance and notification requirements for ESOS.
Get permission or a licence to trap crayfish, eels, elvers, salmon, sea trout, lamprey and smelt in England. How to apply and rules to follow.
The qualifications you need to work with fluorinated gas (F gas) and the organisations that offer them.
This guidance explains the appropriate measures that regulated facilities permitted to store, treat or transfer (or both) non-hazardous and inert waste should consider.
Groundwater flooding, how it might affect you and what to do.
For waste operators and exporters classifying some waste electrical and electronic equipment (WEEE) devices, waste components, and wastes from their treatment.
Explains the definition of ‘regulated facility’ and how they are grouped into classes.
Facilities for boaters at Environment Agency lock sites on the non-tidal River Thames and the River Kennet.
Find out which Environment Agency locks and weirs you can fish at, the licences and permits you need and when you can fish.
The U10 exemption allows you to spread specific waste on agricultural land to replace manufactured fertilisers or virgin materials (such as lime) to improve or maintain soil.
Environment Agency enforcement position on temporary discharges of uncontaminated water from excavations to surface water without a water discharge activity permit.
If you impound water, or plan to, you may need to apply for an impounding licence.
The S1 waste exemption lets you store certain waste in secure containers at a site separate to where it was produced, before transportation to another site for recovery.
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