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How developers can get advice on Nationally Significant Infrastructure Projects (NSIPs) and applications for planning, permission in principle and technical details consent.
Explains the definition of ‘regulated facility’ and how they are grouped into classes.
How the Environment Agency charges for activities that need an environmental permit and the charges you must pay.
Find out the legal, financial and professional requirements for operators and managers, including extra duties for waste activity operators.
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.
Find out if and by when you need to apply for a medium combustion plant directive (MCPD) environmental permit to meet air quality requirements.
Waste codes for common construction and demolition waste.
Standard rules to operate a household, commercial and industrial waste transfer station with treatment. These rules also allow the storage of asbestos, batteries, cable and waste electrical and electronic equipment (WEEE).
Rules to follow if you put batteries, including batteries in vehicles or appliances, on the UK market for the first time.
Standard rules for the treatment of waste to produce soil, soil substitutes and aggregate.
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.
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.
How to report releases and transfers from industrial activities that the Environment Agency regulates.
Guidance for regulated facilities with an environmental permit to treat or transfer chemical waste.
What you must do to manage odour when you apply for, change (vary) or hold an environmental permit.
What the reservoir flood maps show, how they were created and how to use them for your assessments.
How to appeal a regulatory decision from the Environment Agency or challenge them if they fail to act in line with the Regulators’ Code.
U10 exemption lets you spread certain wastes on agricultural land to improve soil, instead of using manufactured fertilisers or virgin materials.
The qualifications you need to work with fluorinated gas (F gas) and the organisations that offer them.
Your responsibilities to check equipment for fluorinated gas (F gas) leaks.
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