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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 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.
Common waste codes for batteries, lightbulbs and electrical devices.
Find out which Environment Agency locks and weirs you can fish at, the licences and permits you need and when you can fish.
Environment Agency regulatory position on when you can abstract water outside of the conditions of your abstraction licence during a ‘flood warning’ for purposes other than land drainage.
When the MCP is exempt from meeting emission limit values (ELVs), which ELVs apply and the deadlines for meeting them.
How to apply for accreditation, comply with your accreditation and packaging waste technical information.
Guidance to help aircraft operators understand and meet their compliance obligations under the UK Emissions Trading Scheme (UK ETS).
The types of permit available, how much they cost and how to apply for your environmental permit.
This guidance explains the standards (appropriate measures) that are relevant to regulated facilities with an environmental permit to treat or transfer all types of WEEE.
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 stop the spread and dispose of invasive non-native plants that can harm the environment in England.
Plan for climate change impacts to and from your site. How to integrate climate change adaptation into your management system under an environmental permit.
Apply to become an approved authorised treatment facility (AATF) and how to operate legally under the approval.
A guide to adapting your home or business to flooding, and how to pump water out of your property after a flood.
What information local planning authorities need to include in a strategic flood risk assessment.
Check if you need to do a risk assessment, how to do a risk assessment, and how the Environment Agency can help you.
Increase flood resilience with Natural Flood Management
How to apply to be an authorised treatment facility (ATF) for ELVs, comply with ELV regulations and meet recycling targets.
Qualification, compliance and notification requirements for ESOS.
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