Guidance and regulation

When you need to do an environmental risk assessment, when the Environment Agency will do it for you, and how to do a risk assessment.

• From: Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs and 1 others
• Updated: 21 November 2023

Plan for climate change impacts to and from your site. How to integrate climate change adaptation into your management system under an environmental permit.

• From: Environment Agency
• Updated: 3 April 2023

How you must control and monitor emissions from your activities that may cause pollution.

• From: Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs and 1 others
• Updated: 24 November 2022

The types of work on or near a main river or sea defence that don't need an environmental permit so are excluded from the regulations.

• From: Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs and 1 others
• Updated: 13 October 2016

Environment Agency enforcement position on temporary discharges of uncontaminated water from excavations to surface water without a water discharge activity permit.

• From: Environment Agency
• Updated: 6 January 2023

Find out if and by when you need to apply for a medium combustion plant directive (MCPD) environmental permit to meet air quality requirements.

• From: Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs and 3 others
• Updated: 12 December 2023

How to apply for a standard rules environmental permit from the Environment Agency.

• From: Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs and 1 others
• Updated: 22 August 2022

How to comply with your permit, including maintenance, record keeping and pollution reporting requirements.

• From: Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs and 1 others
• Updated: 31 December 2014

Find out the legal, financial and professional requirements for operators and managers, including extra duties for waste activity operators.

• From: Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs and 1 others
• Updated: 11 June 2019

How to complete waste or materials facility returns, and deadlines for submission.

• From: Environment Agency
• Updated: 4 September 2020

What to include in your fire prevention plan, the fire prevention measures you must put in place, a template for your plan and examples of alternative measures.

• From: Environment Agency
• Updated: 11 January 2021

Emerging techniques on how to prevent or minimise the environmental impacts of post-combustion carbon dioxide capture.

• From: Environment Agency
• Updated: 27 March 2024

Check if you need to do a risk assessment, how to do a risk assessment, and how the Environment Agency can help you.

• From: Environment Agency
• Updated: 6 April 2016

How to apply for standard rules and bespoke permits for A1 installations, including low impact installations.

• From: Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs and 1 others
• Updated: 21 February 2024

Find out if and by when you need to apply for a specified generator environmental permit to meet air quality requirements.

• From: Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs and 3 others
• Updated: 1 September 2022

What best available techniques are, when you must follow them, how to propose alternatives and how to refer to them in your application.

• From: Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs and 1 others
• Updated: 1 February 2016

Use this guide to understand when your waste water discharge is classed as domestic sewage.

• From: Environment Agency
• Updated: 29 July 2021

If you operate a medium combustion plant (MCP) or a generator, find out if you need to meet MCP and/or specified generator regulations.

• From: Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs and 3 others
• Updated: 27 March 2023

The types of permit available, how much they cost and how to apply for your environmental permit.

• From: Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs and 3 others
• Updated: 26 June 2023

Non-nuclear radioactive substances regulation (RSR), when you need a permit, types of permits, how to apply, change (vary), transfer or surrender your permit.

• From: Environment Agency
• Updated: 31 January 2023