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The Environment Agency’s Generic Design Assessment (GDA) of new nuclear power station designs and how we engage with others during the process.
How to record and report fluorinated gas (F gas) you produce, import, export or destroy in Great Britain.
Guidance to help aircraft operators understand and meet their compliance obligations under the UK Emissions Trading Scheme (UK ETS).
Midlands rod fishing byelaws are statutory (regulated by law) rules and regulations explaining who can fish, and where, when and what fish you can take.
How to assess and report B2C and B2B electrical and electronic equipment (EEE) and waste electrical and electronic equipment (WEEE) products.
Guidance and information on flood risk management and surface water management.
Use this guide to understand when your waste water discharge is classed as domestic sewage.
Where to deposit non-hazardous dredging spoil, how to treat it, and the quantities allowed under a D1 waste exemption.
Formerly part of M18, technical guidance for industrial plant operators (and their contractors) who monitor effluent discharges to water and sewer.
North West and Border Esk byelaws are statutory rules (regulated by law) and regulations explaining who can fish, where, when and what fish you can take.
S3 waste exemption lets you store sewage sludge at a site where it will be used in accordance with the Sludge (Use in Agriculture) Regulations 1989.
Guidance explaining the use of soil guideline values (SGV) to asses the long-term exposure of chemicals in soil on human health.
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.
Environment Agency regulatory position on collecting and reporting nation of sale, self-managed organisational waste and plastic and paper bags data for 2024 and 2025.
Standard rules permit and generic risk assessment for new and existing, low risk, stationary medium combustion plant.
You can use the pre-application advice service to make sure your application is correct.
Standard rules for a household waste recycling centre.
Standard rules to operate a mobile plant for the treatment of soils and contaminated material, substances or products.
Appoint a panel engineer for your reservoir.
Standard rules to operate a household, commercial and industrial waste transfer station. These rules also allow the storage of asbestos, batteries, cable and waste electrical and electronic equipment (WEEE).
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