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The convictions you must declare when you apply for a permit for waste activities or installations.
This document details the requirements for a laboratory undertaking the chemical testing of soil and the procurer of analytical services to the MCERTS performance standard.
Standard rules to operate non-hazardous and hazardous household waste amenity site at a specified location.
This document provides the performance standards and test procedures for validation of software used for processing monitoring data.
The D4 exemption allows you to deposit diseased crops where they were grown when a Plant Health Notice has been issued, to reduce the risk of spreading plant diseases or pests.
The U16 exemption allows you to reuse the parts from depolluted end-of-life vehicles in other vehicles.
Who, what, why and where
Standard rules to operate a clinical waste and healthcare waste transfer station at a specified location.
Managing radioactive waste with geological disposal
Regulators must use this process guidance note (PGN) to assess applications and write permits for printing of dry cleaning.
Standard rules SR2009 No 2: low impact part A installation.
For a Part A installation with a treatment capacity of more than 75 tonnes each day accepting no more than 75,000 tonnes each year.
Environment Agency regulatory position on when you can burn waste wood during community events such as Guy Fawkes’ bonfires and Scout and Guide campfires.
For facilities with a treatment capacity of less than 100 tonnes each day and accepting no more than 35,000 tonnes on site each year.
Environment Agency regulatory position on when you can store intact shock absorbers and undeployed airbags in otherwise fully depolluted ELVs on hardstanding.
When you can treat waste plastic using heat without an environmental permit.
The Environment Agency has provided these low risk waste positions (LRWPs) for waste operations that it considers may be suitable for an exemption.
RSR RGN2 provides an overview of the regulation of radioactive substances on nuclear sites.
Standard rules to operate mobile plant for land-spreading of sewage sludge and deployment form.
How to pay Environment Agency charges for international waste shipments (IWS) notifications.
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