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Register to vote Register by 18 June to vote in the General Election on 4 July.
How to access the Environment Agency's public registers of environmental information.
If you run a waste recovery site with a permit in England and regularly receive shipments of the same waste, you may benefit from having a 'pre-consent' certificate.
How to develop a management system for carrying out flood risk activities under an environmental permit.
Details of fees and charges including information on how to pay.
The D5 exemption allows you to deposit and store waste samples when required to comply with or enforce specified regulations, or before testing and analysis for research.
Paper and cardboard production can cause significant pollution. This guide describes industry responsibilities for preventing pollution.
The Environment Agency deals with applications for environmental permits and the Planning Inspectorate deals with appeals.
How to carry out a risk assessment if you are applying for a bespoke permit that includes discharging hazardous chemicals and elements to surface water.
The U16 exemption allows you to reuse the parts from depolluted end-of-life vehicles in other vehicles.
The conditions that new cemetery developments, or new extensions of a cemetery, can operate under without needing an environmental permit.
Mining waste permits, waste management plans and extra requirements you must comply with if you have a mining waste facility.
Check if you need to apply for an environmental permit, formerly known as a flood defence consent, and get the forms you need.
Complete if you are applying to vary (change) your permit to a mining waste permit or vary a bespoke mining waste permit.
How to apply for and comply with environmental permits for surface water discharge activities or groundwater activities.
View a list of environmental permitting applications that have been submitted to the Environment Agency.
Environmental permit public consultation now open for comments until 2 August 2023.
Public and private waste collectors must follow the regulation on collecting certain wastes separately.
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