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What best available techniques are, when you must follow them, how to propose alternatives and how to refer to them in your application.
Comprehensive help for those operating, regulating or interested in facilities that are covered by the Environmental Permitting regulations.
The types of permit available, how much they cost and how to apply for your environmental permit.
If you need to submit packaging data under extended producer responsibility for packaging, this spreadsheet can help you generate a valid packaging data file
Declarations between the UK and North Seas countries at the 3rd North Sea Summit, Hamburg, Germany, January 2026.
Recyclability assessment methodology (RAM): how to classify your packaging and technical definitions.
An introduction to the summary logs that reprocessors and exporters need to use to record packaging waste activity under Extended Producer Responsibility for packaging requirements.
Base fees for year 1 (2025 to 2026) of Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR) for packaging.
Apply to become an approved authorised treatment facility (AATF) and how to operate legally under the approval.
How to choose a waste recovery or disposal method and assess its risks when applying for or changing your bespoke environmental permit.
Process to apply for mandatory registration and voluntary accreditation as a reprocessor or exporter under extended producer responsibility (EPR) for packaging for 2026.
Waste codes for common healthcare and related wastes.
When the MCP is exempt from meeting emission limit values (ELVs), which ELVs apply and the deadlines for meeting them.
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.
End of waste criteria for the production and use of aggregates from inert waste.
Find out the methodology and procedure used to calculate payments to local authorities for Year 1 (2025 to 2026) and Year 2 (2026 to 2027).
An overview of our priorities at Sellafield and the progress we're making in the clean-up of the most hazardous buildings, the legacy ponds and silos.
How to apply for accreditation, comply with your accreditation and packaging waste technical information.
If you're an electricity producer or energy supplier, check if you should register, send returns and pay the levy. Also, find out how to change or cancel a registration.
Standard rules to operate a household, commercial and industrial waste transfer station. These rules also allow the storage of asbestos, batteries, cable and waste electrical and electronic equipment (WEEE).
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