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Find out if you qualify for ESOS and how to comply.
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.
Find out when you need to do a flood risk assessment as part of your planning application, how to complete one and how it is processed.
The current conditions affecting boaters on the River Thames and what the warnings mean.
A guide to collecting data about your packaging. This is for UK organisations affected by extended producer responsibility (EPR) for packaging.
How to meet the general binding rules if your septic tank or small sewage discharge treatment plant releases (discharges) waste water to a surface water.
When you can get permission to trap or remove crayfish in England, how to apply, and rules to follow.
Boat registration charges for the River Thames.
You can use the pre-application advice service to make sure your permit application is correct.
Guidance to help maritime operators understand and meet their compliance obligations under the UK Emissions Trading Scheme (UK ETS).
How the Thames Barrier works, and when it is scheduled to close.
Your responsibilities and rules to follow for watercourses on or near your property, and permissions you need to do work around them.
S2 waste exemption allows you to store specific waste at a secure intermediate site, separate to where the waste was produced, before transportation to another site for recovery.
Find out if you need to follow standing advice when completing a flood risk assessment and what to do.
Find out where SPZs are, what defines the different zones and why the Environment Agency must protect groundwater from pollution.
An overview of the recyclability assessment methodology (RAM). Under extended producer responsibility for packaging, large producers must report the recyclability of some packaging materials
How to apply to the Environment Agency for a water abstraction or impounding licence.
When you need company certification to work with fluorinated gas (F gas) and how to get it.
How to change details of your environmental permit, transfer it to somebody else or cancel it.
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.
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