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Find out the legal, financial and professional requirements for operators and managers, including extra duties for waste activity operators.
Find out which Environment Agency locks and weirs you can fish at, the licences and permits you need and when you can fish.
This exemption allows you to temporarily store waste you have produced when working away from your normal business premises.
Groundwater flooding, how it might affect you and what to do.
Use this service to view and share your licence information and to submit abstraction returns. Find out about water abstraction alerts.
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 the Environment Agency and its partners will maintain and upgrade flood defences in the Thames Estuary to adapt to rising sea levels.
Waste codes for common construction and demolition waste.
How to send returns to the Environment Agency and waste producer if you receive or dispose of hazardous waste.
A list of all F gases and their global warming potentials.
This guidance explains the appropriate measures that regulated facilities permitted to store, treat or transfer (or both) non-hazardous and inert waste should consider.
How to appeal a regulatory decision from the Environment Agency or challenge them if they fail to act in line with the Regulators’ Code.
How developers can get advice on Nationally Significant Infrastructure Projects (NSIPs) and applications for planning, permission in principle and technical details consent.
The qualifications you need to work with fluorinated gas (F gas) and the organisations that offer them.
Guidance for regulated facilities with an environmental permit to treat or transfer chemical waste.
How climate change agreements (CCAs) work, who is eligible and which sector associations hold a CCA.
Standard rules for the treatment of waste to produce soil, soil substitutes and aggregate.
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).
T4 exemption allows you to treat waste to reduce its volume for transport to another site for reuse, recycling or to make handling easier.
Rules to follow if you put batteries, including batteries in vehicles or appliances, on the UK market for the first time.
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