Guidance and regulation

Use the climate change risk assessment examples for your industry sector when developing or reviewing your management system.

• From: Environment Agency
• Updated: 17 May 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

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

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

The S1 waste exemption lets you store certain waste in secure containers at a site separate to where it was produced, before transportation to another site for recovery.

• From: Environment Agency
• Updated: 9 February 2023

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

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

This guidance explains the appropriate measures that regulated facilities permitted to store, treat or transfer (or both) non-hazardous and inert waste should consider.

• From: Environment Agency
• Updated: 1 August 2023

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

Explains the definition of ‘regulated facility’ and how they are grouped into classes.

• From: Environment Agency
• Updated: 3 May 2019

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

Environment Agency enforcement position on when you can store and treat hazardous waste cable without the correct waste codes on your permit or exemption.

• From: Environment Agency
• Updated: 5 February 2024

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

When the MCP is exempt from meeting emission limit values (ELVs), which ELVs apply and the deadlines for meeting them.

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

Find out if your groundwater discharges are extremely low risk so don’t need an environmental permit or exemption.

• From: Environment Agency
• Updated: 5 August 2021

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

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

How to choose a waste recovery or disposal method and assess its risks when applying for or changing your bespoke environmental permit.

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

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