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Navigation on the River Thames may be restricted or closed in certain areas. Find out where and when these restrictions and closures are.
The U1 exemption allows you to use suitable waste in construction as a recovery activity.
Obligated packaging producers must register and meet their waste packaging recycling responsibilities.
A guide to collecting data about your packaging. This is for UK organisations affected by extended producer responsibility (EPR) for packaging.
How the Thames Barrier works, and when it is scheduled to close.
How to stop the spread and dispose of invasive non-native plants that can harm the environment in England.
Facilities for boaters at Environment Agency lock sites on the non-tidal River Thames and the River Kennet.
Find out if you need to follow standing advice when completing a flood risk assessment and what to do.
You can use the pre-application advice service to make sure your permit application is correct.
How to change details of your environmental permit, transfer it to somebody else or cancel it.
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.
Find out which Environment Agency locks and weirs you can fish at, the licences and permits you need and when you can fish.
What you need to know about the Environment Agency’s new national risk information for flooding and coastal erosion.
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 controls that apply if you transport waste out of or into England.
What information the consignment note must contain, who has to complete each part and when it has to be completed.
The S2 waste exemption allows you to store specific waste at a secure intermediate site, separate to where the waste was produced, before transportation to another site for recovery.
Find out if you need to carry out the sequential test as part of your flood risk assessment and how to complete one.
Find out where SPZs are, what defines the different zones and why the Environment Agency must protect groundwater from pollution.
Qualification, compliance and notification requirements for ESOS.
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