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How the Environment Agency charges for activities that need an environmental permit and the charges you must pay.
Map showing the geographical areas of the Environment Agency's operations.
Find out which Environment Agency locks and weirs you can fish at, the licences and permits you need and when you can fish.
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 to assess household and non-household packaging from 2024 onwards if you’re a UK organisation affected by extended producer responsibility (EPR) for packaging.
Find out if and by when you need to apply for a medium combustion plant directive (MCPD) environmental permit to meet air quality requirements.
Groundwater flooding, how it might affect you and what to do.
How to complete an air emissions risk assessment, including how to calculate the impact of your emissions and the standards you must meet.
Rules you must follow, who’s responsible, when to tell the Environment Agency and what to do if you get an enforcement notice.
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).
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.
Check how coastal flood and erosion risks will be managed in your area.
How businesses and organisations can avoid causing pollution from oil and chemical storage, car washing, construction and other activities.
Get help to improve water and air quality, and reduce flood risk on agricultural land.
How you must control and monitor emissions from your activities that may cause pollution.
How to apply for accreditation, comply with your accreditation and packaging waste technical information.
The types of work on or near a main river or sea defence that don't need an environmental permit so are excluded from the regulations.
Find out the legal, financial and professional requirements for operators and managers, including extra duties for waste activity operators.
T4 exemption allows you to treat waste to reduce its volume for transport to another site for reuse, recycling or to make handling easier.
This exemption allows you to temporarily store waste you have produced when working away from your normal business premises.
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