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The convictions you must declare when you apply for a new permit or to transfer a permit.
Find out about Compliance Assessment Reports, assessments, inspections and permit reviews, and what the Environment Agency will do if you do not follow the rules.
How to choose a waste recovery or disposal method and assess its risks when applying for or changing your bespoke environmental permit.
Treating and disposing of non-hazardous farm waste, sending to landfill, burying waste, incinerating fallen stock and recycling waste fuel oil.
Standard rules to operate a materials recycling facility.
T10 exemption allows small organisations, such as charities, to sort recyclable waste so that it can be recovered.
D5 exemption allows you to deposit and store waste samples when required to comply with or enforce specified regulations, or before testing and analysis for research.
How to trial new operating models and technologies at regulated facilities.
U11 exemption lets you spread waste on non-agricultural land to improve soil, instead of using manufactured fertilisers or virgin materials.
Environment Agency regulatory position on when you can store and spread waste gypsum to benefit land.
D3 exemption allows the burial of waste from a portable toilet, to avoid long-distance transportation of small quantities of waste to sewage treatment works.
Guidance to help organisations choose a monitoring approach for stack emissions to air that meets Environment Agency and MCERTS requirements (formerly part of M2).
Standard rules for research and development activities which support products and processes associated with permitted activities at Part A(1) installations.
How to get support for nature projects that require a range of environmental permits and licences.
The conditions that new cemetery developments, or new extensions of a cemetery, can operate under without needing an environmental permit.
Emerging techniques on how to prevent or minimise the environmental impacts of post-combustion carbon dioxide capture.
Standard rules for discharges to surface water of 5 cubic metres per day using equipment that does not conform to the British Standard or where the receiving watercourse does not always have flow, or both.
How and when to assess the risks of noise and vibration associated with your environmental permit application, with guidance on using the noise advisory tool.
The monitoring certification scheme (MCERTS) standard that applies to holders of environmental permits who must monitor liquid flow (sewage or trade effluent).
Use this tool to find out if you need to apply for a simple bespoke or complex bespoke medium combustion plant permit.
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