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Find out about flood risk activity exemptions, which used to need flood defence consent, and how to register them.
How to complete an air emissions risk assessment, including how to calculate the impact of your emissions and the standards you must meet.
Find out if and by when you need to apply for a medium combustion plant directive (MCPD) environmental permit to meet air quality requirements.
How to develop a management system and keep it up to date so that you can carry out activities under an environmental permit.
Find out the legal, financial and professional requirements for operators and managers, including extra duties for waste activity operators.
How you must control and monitor emissions from your activities that may cause pollution.
The T28 exemption allows pharmacies and similar places to denature controlled drugs to comply with Misuse of Drugs Regulations 2001.
Guidance for regulated facilities with an environmental permit to treat or transfer chemical waste.
The S1 waste exemption lets you store certain waste in secure containers at a site separate to where it was produced, before transporting to another site for recovery.
Explains the definition of ‘regulated facility’ and how they are grouped into classes.
Find out if and by when you need to apply for a specified generator environmental permit to meet air quality requirements.
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.
This guidance explains the appropriate measures that regulated facilities permitted to store, treat or transfer (or both) non-hazardous and inert waste should consider.
Find out about Compliance Assessment Reports, assessments, inspections and permit reviews, and what the Environment Agency will do if you do not follow the rules.
Environment Agency enforcement position on temporary discharges of uncontaminated water from excavations to surface water without a water discharge activity permit.
The T11 exemption allows you to repair, refurbish or dismantle various types of WEEE so that the whole WEEE item or any parts can be reused for their original purpose or recovered.
What best available techniques are, when you must follow them, how to propose alternatives and how to refer to them in your application.
Plan for climate change impacts to and from your site. How to integrate climate change adaptation into your management system under an environmental permit.
The T4 exemption allows you to treat waste to reduce its volume for transport to another site for reuse, recycling or to make handling easier.
How to apply for standard rules and bespoke permits for A1 installations, including low impact installations.
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