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T23 exemption allows you to compost small volumes of vegetation, cardboard and food waste to spread on soil to add nutrients or improve the structure.
How to apply to be an authorised treatment facility (ATF) for ELVs, comply with ELV regulations and meet recycling targets.
Common waste codes for batteries, lightbulbs and electrical devices.
Guidance for regulated facilities with an environmental permit to treat or transfer chemical waste.
Find the 2022 update to the river basin management plans which describe the challenges that threaten the water environment and how these challenges can be managed.
These are the appropriate measures for waste storage, segregation and handling at regulated facilities with an environmental permit for treating or transferring chemical waste.
Get consent to introduce (site permit) or remove fish (excluding fish farms): application forms and rules.
What best available techniques are, when you must follow them, how to propose alternatives and how to refer to them in your application.
Plan for climate change impacts to and from your site. How to integrate climate change adaptation into your management system under an environmental permit.
T1 waste exemption allows you to treat waste packaging so it can be reused in its original form or becomes clean waste suitable for recycling.
Standard rules for the treatment of waste to produce soil, soil substitutes and aggregate.
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.
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).
Apply to become an approved authorised treatment facility (AATF) and how to operate legally under the approval.
How the Environment Agency carries out government policy for groundwater and adopts a risk-based approach where legislation allows.
Anglia rod fishing byelaws are statutory (regulated by law) rules and regulations explaining who can fish, and where, when and what fish you can take.
This exemption allows you to temporarily store waste at a collection point before recovering or disposing of the waste elsewhere.
This manual is a guide for industry sector associations and operators of a climate change agreement (CCA).
When the MCP is exempt from meeting emission limit values (ELVs), which ELVs apply and the deadlines for meeting them.
How to appeal a regulatory decision from the Environment Agency or report when they have not followed the Regulators’ Code.
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