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What you must do to prevent water pollution when you manage organic manures, manufactured fertiliser, soil and livestock.
Get help to improve water and air quality, and reduce flood risk on agricultural land.
What you must do when you keep livestock or manage land.
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.
If you abstract water or plan to, you may need to apply for an abstraction licence.
When to use standing advice on site-specific flood risk assessments, and when to consult the Environment Agency.
How to complete waste or materials facility returns, and deadlines for submission.
How to complete an air emissions risk assessment, including how to calculate the impact of your emissions and the standards you must meet.
Find out what waste exemptions are and when you need to register them. Understand waste exemption conditions and charges.
Rules you must follow, who’s responsible, when to notify the Environment Agency and what to do if you get an enforcement notice.
This code provides practical guidance on how to meet your waste duty of care requirements in England and Wales.
Find out how much nitrogen you can use on your land and how to plan and record your fertiliser use in a nitrate vulnerable zone (NVZ).
How to identify, stop the spread and dispose of Japanese knotweed in England.
When a material is waste, is a by-product or meets ‘end of waste’ status.
How to apply to the Environment Agency for a water abstraction or impounding licence.
How to develop a management system and keep it up to date so that you can carry out activities under an environmental permit.
The regulations farmers and land managers must follow when storing more than 1,500 litres of agricultural fuel oil, such as red diesel and white diesel.
Details of fees and charges including information on how to pay.
How to identify and classify waste that contains POPs.
When you need to do an environmental risk assessment, when the Environment Agency will do it for you, and how to do a risk assessment.
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