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Plan for climate change impacts to and from your site. How to integrate climate change adaptation into your management system under an environmental permit.
How to apply for accreditation, comply with your accreditation and packaging waste technical information.
How to register a reservoir, appoint a panel engineer, produce a flood plan, prepare an inspection information pack and report an incident.
Find out how to express the mass of a fluorinated greenhouse gas (F gas) in terms of carbon dioxide equivalent to comply with regulations on F gases.
Guidance to help aircraft operators understand and meet their compliance obligations under the UK Emissions Trading Scheme (UK ETS).
How to use the maps to find out if you are at risk of flooding from surface water.
The types of permit available, how much they cost and how to apply for your environmental permit.
South West byelaws are statutory (regulated by law) rules and regulations explaining who can fish, where, when and what fish you can take.
River Great Ouse: bridge heights, locks, overhead power lines and facilities.
To properly classify and manage waste, you must identify when EEE becomes WEEE.
You can report serious concerns about your employer to us, if you suspect wrongdoing in an area we regulate.
What best available techniques are, when you must follow them, how to propose alternatives and how to refer to them in your application.
How to comply with your permit, including maintenance, record keeping and pollution reporting requirements.
Common waste codes for batteries, lightbulbs and electrical devices.
Environment Agency enforcement position on temporary discharges of uncontaminated water from excavations to surface water without a water discharge activity permit.
How to change, revoke or transfer your licence, including if the licence holder dies or becomes bankrupt and find out when changes can be enforced.
Non-nuclear radioactive substances regulation (RSR), when you need a permit, types of permits, how to apply, change (vary), transfer or surrender your permit.
What information local planning authorities need to include in a strategic flood risk assessment.
From 1 October 2024, more materials facilities will need to sample and report their waste. Sampling and reporting will be more detailed and more frequent under the amended regulations.
S3 waste exemption lets you store sewage sludge at a site where it will be used in accordance with the Sludge (Use in Agriculture) Regulations 1989.
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