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How the Environment Agency charges for activities that need an environmental permit and the charges you must pay.
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.
The T28 exemption allows pharmacies and similar places to denature controlled drugs to comply with Misuse of Drugs Regulations 2001.
How to develop a management system and keep it up to date so that you can carry out activities under an environmental permit.
This guidance explains the appropriate measures that regulated facilities permitted to store, treat or transfer (or both) non-hazardous and inert waste should consider.
The D7 exemption allows you to burn plant tissue and untreated wood waste from joinery or manufacturing in the open air.
Find out if and by when you need to apply for a medium combustion plant directive (MCPD) environmental permit to meet air quality requirements.
A T6 exemption allows you to chip, shred, pulverise or cut waste wood and plant matter to make it suitable for a specific purpose.
The T11 exemption allows you to repair, refurbish or dismantle various types of WEEE so that the whole WEEE item or any parts can be reused for their original purpose or recovered.
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.
The U10 exemption allows you to spread specific waste on agricultural land to replace manufactured fertilisers or virgin materials (such as lime) to improve or maintain soil.
Explains the definition of ‘regulated facility’ and how they are grouped into classes.
Find out the legal, financial and professional requirements for operators and managers, including extra duties for waste activity operators.
Plan for climate change impacts to and from your site. How to integrate climate change adaptation into your management system under an environmental permit.
The S1 waste exemption lets you store certain waste in secure containers at a site separate to where it was produced, before transporting to another site for recovery.
Find out if and by when you need to apply for a specified generator environmental permit to meet air quality requirements.
Environment Agency enforcement position on temporary discharges of uncontaminated water from excavations to surface water without a water discharge activity permit.
How to apply for standard rules and bespoke permits for A1 installations, including low impact installations.
Where to deposit non-hazardous dredging spoil, how to treat it, and the quantities allowed under a D1 exemption.
Guidance for regulated facilities with an environmental permit to treat or transfer chemical waste.
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