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Advises on how planning can ensure water quality and the delivery of adequate water and wastewater infrastructure.
How to report incidents, including pro-formas for PON1 and PON2 and guidance on completion; listing of environmental alerts for operators in the North Sea.
Amended charges for international waste shipments come into force as of 1 April 2024
Provides guiding principles on how planning can deal with land affected by contamination.
Guidance for policy officials in government to identify and assess the wider environmental impacts of their policy options.
Treating and disposing of non-hazardous farm waste, sending to landfill, burying waste, incinerating fallen stock and recycling waste fuel oil.
Environment Agency 2020 annual report on the environmental performance of regulated businesses in England and the work we do to regulate them.
How the maritime industry should treat waste at sea and in ports, reduce oil and air pollution, and control ozone-depleting substances.
Policy statement setting out how policymakers apply environmental principles to support environmental protection and enhancement.
Guidance documents, risk methods, permits and charge sheets for local authorities carrying out pollution control.
How spaceflight environmental objectives work and how the spaceflight regulator should interpret them when assessing applications.
For each activity there is a set of rules and a risk assessment.
Packaging regulations: environmental requirements, recycling
Environment Agency 2022 annual report on the environmental performance of regulated businesses in England and the work we do to regulate them.
How you must control and monitor emissions from your activities that may cause pollution.
Government response to the Office for Environmental Protection’s report on post-implementation reviews of environmental laws.
What you must do to manage manure, fertiliser and soil to prevent runoff, erosion and leaching.
Environment Agency's regulation of Sizewell A, B and C and how you can find out more about environmental permits and other activities at these nuclear sites.
The draft Environment Bill sets out how we will maintain environmental standards and build on the 25 Year Environment Plan. We've published a July 2019 update.
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