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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.
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.
How to apply for standard rules and bespoke permits for A1 installations, including low impact installations.
This guide sets out who has to apply for a permit, how to apply and explains the other rules covering travel to Antarctica.
When you need an environmental permit to discharge liquid effluent or waste water to surface water or the ground, and how to apply.
How to develop a management system and keep it up to date so that you can carry out activities under an environmental permit.
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.
Check if you need to apply for an environmental permit, formerly known as a flood defence consent, and get the forms you need.
Guidance documents, risk methods, permits and charge sheets for local authorities carrying out pollution control.
Your council has information on parking permit schemes in your area
Apply for permits to travel to or through Azerbaijan, Belarus, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Morocco, Russia, Tunisia, Turkey and Ukraine, and the rules you must follow.
Permits to travel to or through European Conference of Ministers of Transport (ECMT) member countries, and the rules you have to follow.
For each activity there is a set of rules and a risk assessment.
How to develop a management system for carrying out flood risk activities under an environmental permit.
How to change details of your environmental permit, transfer it to somebody else or cancel it.
You can use the pre-application advice service to make sure your permit application is correct.
View the permits issued by the Environment Agency under the Industrial Emissions Directive.
When and how the Environment Agency consults on permit applications and standard rules for environmental permits. This is our public participation statement.
How to apply for an environmental permit if you rear pigs and poultry intensively, including how to comply with and change the permit.
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