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How to store oil, design standards for tanks and containers, where to locate and how to protect them, and capacity of bunds and drip trays.
Find out what waste exemptions are and when you need to register them. Understand waste exemption conditions and charges.
If you abstract water or plan to, you may need to apply for an abstraction licence.
How to develop a management system and keep it up to date so that you can carry out activities under an environmental permit.
Registers of electrical and electronic equipment (EEE) producers, approved exporters, approved authorised treatment facilities and producer compliance schemes.
General binding rules for small sewage discharges from septic tanks or sewage treatment plants in England.
How to assess and manage the risks from historic land contamination.
How to structure your packaging data submission. It includes information about the different types of data you need to submit and the codes you need to use.
The T28 exemption allows pharmacies and similar practitioners to denature controlled drugs, to comply with Misuse of Drugs Regulations 2001.
How to assess household and non-household packaging from 2024 onwards if you’re a UK organisation affected by extended producer responsibility (EPR) for packaging.
Checklists to help you prepare for flooding.
Find out about flood risk activity exemptions, which used to need flood defence consent, and how to register them.
Details of fees and charges including information on how to pay.
Get permission or a licence to trap crayfish, eels, elvers, salmon, sea trout, lamprey and smelt in England. How to apply and rules to follow.
How you must control and monitor emissions from your activities that may cause pollution.
What you must do to prevent water pollution when you manage organic manures, manufactured fertiliser, soil and livestock.
How to apply to the Environment Agency for a water abstraction or impounding licence.
Rules you must follow, who’s responsible, when to tell the Environment Agency and what to do if you get an enforcement notice.
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.
What you need to know about the Environment Agency’s new national risk information for flooding and coastal erosion.
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