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When to use standing advice on site-specific flood risk assessments, and when to consult the Environment Agency.
How to develop a management system and keep it up to date so that you can carry out activities under an environmental permit.
How to identify and classify waste that contains POPs.
How to send returns to the Environment Agency and waste producer if you receive or dispose of hazardous waste in England.
Map showing the geographical areas of the Environment Agency's operations.
How developers can get advice on Nationally Significant Infrastructure Projects (NSIPs) and applications for planning, permission in principle and technical details consent.
Use this service to view and share your licence information and to submit abstraction returns. Find out about water abstraction alerts.
How to complete an air emissions risk assessment, including how to calculate the impact of your emissions and the standards you must meet.
How to complete waste returns and deadlines for submission.
Rules you must follow, who’s responsible, when to notify the Environment Agency and what to do if you get an enforcement notice.
The T11 exemption allows you to repair, refurbish or dismantle various types of WEEE so that the whole WEEE item or any parts can be reused for their original purpose or recovered.
Information on the lock keeper service on the River Thames.
UK organisations that are affected by extended producer responsibility (EPR) for packaging may need to get evidence of packaging waste recycling and pay disposal fees.
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 you must control and monitor emissions from your activities that may cause pollution.
What you must do when you keep livestock or manage land.
Find out what waste exemptions are and when you need to register them. Understand waste exemption conditions and charges.
This guidance explains the appropriate measures that regulated facilities permitted to store, treat or transfer (or both) non-hazardous and inert waste should consider.
Environment Agency regulatory position on when you can accept non-hazardous filter cake waste from soil and aggregate washing facilities, at landfill and deposit for recovery sites.
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).
Do not include personal or financial information like your National Insurance number or credit card details.
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