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How to apply for standard rules and bespoke permits for A1 installations, including low impact installations.
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.
Non-nuclear radioactive substances regulation (RSR), when you need a permit, types of permits, how to apply, change (vary), transfer or surrender your permit.
Guidance documents, risk methods, permits and charge sheets for local authorities carrying out pollution control.
Interested parties can review records of applications and statements submitted to OPRED as required by environmental regulations.
The types of permit available, how much they cost and how to apply for your environmental permit.
Check if you need to apply for an environmental permit, formerly known as a flood defence consent, and get the forms you need.
An overview of the process by which bills become law.
Environmental regulations and guidance on offshore oil and gas exploration and production, offshore gas unloading and storage and offshore carbon dioxide storage activities
For each activity there is a set of rules and a risk assessment.
Guidance on the pre-application stage for Nationally Significant Infrastructure Projects.
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.
Provides an introduction to National Infrastructure Planning Guidance.
When you need an environmental permit to discharge liquid effluent or waste water to surface water or the ground, and how to apply.
What you need to do to comply with regulations on manufactured goods you place on the Northern Ireland market.
Get consent to introduce (site permit) or remove fish (excluding fish farms): application forms and rules.
Sets out when planning permission is required and different types of planning permission which may be granted.
When the Environment Agency will not require you to get a permit to carry out certain activities that they regulate.
Controls under the Firearms (Northern Ireland) Order 2004, prohibited weapons, applications for removal of prohibition and making an appeal.
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.
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