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  • Access the public register for environmental information

    How to access the Environment Agency's public registers of environmental information.

    • From: Environment Agency
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  • Extended producer responsibility for packaging: who is affected and what to do

    How UK organisations that supply or import packaging should comply with extended producer responsibility (EPR) for packaging.

    • From: Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs and 1 others
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  • Report packaging data

    Sign in or create an account for your organisation to report packaging data. This means it can comply with extended producer responsibility (EPR) for packaging.

    • From: Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs and 1 others
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  • Check import risk categories, inspection rates and related rules for animals and animal products imported from the EU to Great Britain

    Import risk categories under the Border Target Operating Model (BTOM) for animals or animal products you’re importing from the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland, Liechtenstein, the Faroe Islands and Greenland to Great Britain…

    • From: Animal and Plant Health Agency and 1 others
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  • Waste: environmental permits

    Standard rules and bespoke permits for using, treating, storing and disposing of waste. Check if you need a permit and find out how to apply.

    • From: Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs and 1 others
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  • Discharges to surface water and groundwater: environmental permits

    When you need an environmental permit to discharge liquid effluent or waste water to surface water or the ground, and how to apply.

    • From: Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs and 1 others
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  • Register, renew or change waste exemptions

    When your waste operation does not need a permit but you may need to register.

    • From: Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs and 1 others
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  • UK Sustainability Reporting Standards

    Information on the UK government’s framework to create UK Sustainability Reporting Standards (UK SRS) by assessing and endorsing the global corporate reporting baseline of IFRS Sustainability Disclosure Standards.

    • From: Department for Business and Trade
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  • Packaging data: what to collect for extended producer responsibility

    A guide to collecting data about your packaging. This is for UK organisations affected by extended producer responsibility (EPR) for packaging.

    • From: Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs and 1 others
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  • Check if you need an environmental permit

    Permits for installations, medium combustion plant, specified generator, waste or mining waste operations, water discharge or groundwater activities, or work on or near a main river or sea defence.

    • From: Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs and 1 others
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  • Environmental permits and abstraction licences: tables of charges

    The Environment Agency's charging scheme for environmental permits and abstraction and impounding licences from 1 April 2022.

    • From: Environment Agency
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  • Find funding to help your business become greener

    Almost £5 billion of funding is available to help UK businesses become greener as part of the government’s commitment to reach net zero emissions by 2050.

    • From: Department for Energy Security and Net Zero and 1 others
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  • Check if your material is waste

    When a material is waste, is a by-product or meets ‘end of waste’ status.

    • From: Environment Agency
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  • Change, transfer or cancel your environmental permit

    How to change details of your environmental permit, transfer it to somebody else or cancel it.

    • From: Environment Agency
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  • Climate Change Levy rates

    Find the latest Climate Change Levy and Carbon Price Support rates for energy providers.

    • From: HM Revenue & Customs
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  • Pollution prevention for businesses

    How businesses and organisations can avoid causing pollution from oil and chemical storage, car washing, construction and other activities.

    • From: Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs and 1 others
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  • Groundwater source protection zones (SPZs)

    Find out where SPZs are, what defines the different zones and why the Environment Agency must protect groundwater from pollution.

    • From: Environment Agency
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  • Develop a management system: environmental permits

    How to develop a management system and keep it up to date so that you can carry out activities under an environmental permit.

    • From: Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs and 1 others
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  • Non-domestic private rented property: minimum energy efficiency standard - landlord guidance

    Guidance to landlords of privately rented non-domestic property on complying with the 2018 ‘Minimum Level of Energy Efficiency’ standard (EPC band E).

    • From: Department for Energy Security and Net Zero
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  • Oil storage regulations for businesses

    How to store oil, design standards for tanks and containers, where to locate and how to protect them, and capacity of bunds and drip trays.

    • From: Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs and 1 others
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