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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.
The T28 exemption allows pharmacies and similar practitioners to denature controlled drugs, to comply with Misuse of Drugs Regulations 2001.
What you must do to prevent water pollution when you manage organic manures, manufactured fertiliser, soil and livestock.
How businesses and organisations can avoid causing pollution from oil and chemical storage, car washing, construction and other activities.
How to identify, stop the spread and dispose of Japanese knotweed in England.
A list of all F gases and their global warming potentials.
Find out if and by when you need to apply for a medium combustion plant directive (MCPD) environmental permit to meet air quality requirements.
What you must do when you keep livestock or manage land.
Use this service to view and share your licence information and to submit abstraction returns. Find out about water abstraction alerts.
Find out about flood risk activity exemptions, which used to need flood defence consent, and how to register them.
Explains the definition of ‘regulated facility’ and how they are grouped into classes.
Check if you operate a materials facility. Understand your sampling, measuring, recording and reporting requirements.
Map showing the geographical areas of the Environment Agency's operations.
If you put EEE on the UK market you must follow rules on both the EEE you sell and the EEE that becomes waste (WEEE).
Businesses such as joiners, gardeners and farmers can burn their own untreated wood and plant waste on a bonfire, at the place it was produced.
How the Environment Agency charges for activities that need an environmental permit and the charges you must pay.
How developers can get advice on Nationally Significant Infrastructure Projects (NSIPs) and applications for planning, permission in principle and technical details consent.
Substances that are classed as persistent organic pollutants (POPs) and when you're allowed to use them.
Groundwater flooding, how it might affect you and what to do.
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