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Find out the legal, financial and professional requirements for operators and managers, including extra duties for waste activity operators.
Substances that are classed as persistent organic pollutants (POPs) and when you're allowed to use them.
Standard rules for the treatment of waste to produce soil, soil substitutes and aggregate.
What the reservoir flood maps show, how they were created and how to use them for your assessments.
This guidance describes interventions eligible for funding as part of standalone NFM projects through the FCERM investment programme.
Distances between locks on the River Thames and measurements restricting navigation.
A list of registration charges for Anglian Waterways.
For waste operators and exporters classifying some waste electrical and electronic equipment (WEEE) devices, waste components, and wastes from their treatment.
Plan for climate change impacts to and from your site. How to integrate climate change adaptation into your management system under an environmental permit.
Get consent to introduce (site permit) or remove fish (excluding fish farms): application forms and rules.
How to assess the impact of your activity in estuarine (transitional) and coastal waters for the Water Framework Directive (WFD). The guidance is called Clearing the Waters for All.
Your responsibilities to check equipment for fluorinated gas (F gas) leaks.
How to destroy the POPs in waste and when you can recycle, recover or reuse waste containing POPs. How to apply to permanently store waste containing POPs.
How the Environment Agency carries out government policy for groundwater and adopts a risk-based approach where legislation allows.
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).
Rules to follow if you put batteries, including batteries in vehicles or appliances, on the UK market for the first time.
What you need to know about the Environment Agency’s new national risk information for flooding and coastal erosion.
T9 exemption allows you to treat scrap metal for handling or recovery by sorting, grading, shearing by manual feed, baling, crushing or cutting with handheld equipment.
These are the appropriate measures for waste storage, segregation and handling at regulated facilities with an environmental permit for treating or transferring chemical waste.
How to apply for standard rules and bespoke permits for A1 installations, including low impact installations.
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