Guidance and regulation

How to access the Environment Agency's public registers of environmental information.

• From: Environment Agency
• Updated: 13 January 2023

How UK organisations that supply or import packaging should comply with extended producer responsibility (EPR) for packaging.

• From: Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs and 1 others
• Updated: 2 May 2024

Import risk categories under the Border Target Operating Model (BTOM) for animals or animal products you’re importing from the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland, Liechtenstein, the Faroe Islands and Greenland to Great Britain…

• From: Animal and Plant Health Agency and 1 others
• Updated: 20 June 2024

• Import risk categories and inspection rates for animal and animal product imports from the EU to Great Britain: summary tables

  The summary tables on this page show the Border Target Operating Model…

When your waste operation does not need a permit but you may need to register.

• From: Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs and 1 others
• Updated: 10 May 2024

When you need an environmental permit to discharge liquid effluent or waste water to surface water or the ground, and how to apply.

• From: Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs and 1 others
• Updated: 21 February 2024

Permits for installations, medium combustion plant, specified generator, waste or mining waste operations, water discharge or groundwater activities, or work on or near a main river or sea defence.

• From: Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs and 1 others
• Updated: 23 October 2020

Standard rules and bespoke permits for using, treating, storing and disposing of waste. Check if you need a permit and find out how to apply.

• From: Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs and 1 others
• Updated: 21 February 2024

The Environment Agency's charging scheme for environmental permits, abstraction licences and impounding licences.

• From: Environment Agency
• Updated: 1 June 2024

Sign in or create an account for your organisation to report packaging data. This means it can comply with extended producer responsibility (EPR) for packaging.

• From: Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs and 1 others
• Updated: 16 August 2023

A guide to collecting data about your packaging. This is for UK organisations affected by extended producer responsibility (EPR) for packaging.

• From: Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs and 1 others
• Updated: 14 May 2024

Information on the UK government’s framework to create UK Sustainability Reporting Standards (UK SRS) by assessing and endorsing the global corporate reporting baseline of IFRS Sustainability Disclosure Standards.

• From: Department for Business and Trade
• Updated: 16 May 2024

Almost £5 billion of funding is available to help UK businesses become greener as part of the government’s commitment to reach net zero emissions by 2050.

• From: Department for Energy Security and Net Zero and 1 others
• Updated: 26 October 2022

Find the latest Climate Change Levy and Carbon Price Support rates for energy providers.

• From: HM Revenue & Customs
• Updated: 6 April 2024

How to change details of your environmental permit, transfer it to somebody else or cancel it.

• From: Environment Agency
• Updated: 25 August 2023

Find out where SPZs are, what defines the different zones and why the Environment Agency must protect groundwater from pollution.

• From: Environment Agency
• Updated: 1 August 2019

How to store oil, design standards for tanks and containers, where to locate and how to protect them, and capacity of bunds and drip trays.

• From: Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs and 1 others
• Updated: 2 May 2023

Guidance to landlords of privately rented non-domestic property on complying with the 2018 ‘Minimum Level of Energy Efficiency’ standard (EPC band E).

• From: Department for Energy Security and Net Zero
• Updated: 13 April 2023

How to assess and manage the risks from land contamination.

• From: Environment Agency
• Updated: 20 July 2023

How to carry out a risk assessment if you are applying for a bespoke permit that includes discharging hazardous chemicals and elements to surface water.

• From: Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs and 1 others
• Updated: 25 February 2022

How to develop a management system and keep it up to date so that you can carry out activities under an environmental permit.

• From: Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs and 1 others
• Updated: 3 April 2023