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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.
How to apply for standard rules and bespoke permits for A1 installations, including low impact installations.
When you need an environmental permit to discharge liquid effluent or waste water to surface water or the ground, and 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.
This guide sets out who has to apply for a permit, how to apply and explains the other rules covering travel to Antarctica.
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.
Apply for permits to travel to or through Azerbaijan, Belarus, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Morocco, Russia, Tunisia, Turkey and Ukraine, and the rules you must follow.
How to develop a management system and keep it up to date so that you can carry out activities under an environmental permit.
Permits to travel to or through European Conference of Ministers of Transport (ECMT) member countries, and the rules you have to follow.
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 a section 19 standard or large bus permit.
For each activity there is a set of rules and a risk assessment.
How to apply to import, export or re-export endangered animal and plant species on the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES) list.
The types of permit available, how much they cost and how to apply for your environmental permit.
Non-nuclear radioactive substances regulation (RSR), when you need a permit, types of permits, how to apply, change (vary), transfer or surrender your permit.
When and how the Environment Agency consults on permit applications and standard rules for environmental permits. This is our public participation statement.
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