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Find out if Medium Combustion Plant Directive (MCPD) or specified generator regulations apply to your operations.
Apply for approval as a facility to treat, recycle or export waste batteries for treatment and recycling and the rules you must follow.
Use this technical documentation for individual returns if you're a software developer working with the Self Assessment online service.
How to document the way you collect your packaging and packaging waste data - known as your ‘methodology' - as an online marketplace or other producer obligated under extended producer responsibility (EPR) for packaging.…
Guidance for EEE producers on how to accurately report the weight of EEE they place on the market under the waste electrical and electronic equipment (WEEE) regulations.
The monitoring certification scheme (MCERTS) standard that applies to holders of environmental permits who must monitor liquid flow (sewage or trade effluent).
This document provides general guidance to electricity companies that propose applying to the Secretary of State for the grant of a necessary…
Standard rules for discharges to surface water.
Nuclear site radioactive substances regulation (RSR), when you need a permit, how to apply, how to change (vary), transfer or surrender your permit
Map showing nuclear power stations in the UK.
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.
This guidance specifies the standards for the continuous monitoring and sampling of stack emissions.
The emission limit values (ELVs) and air quality standards specified generators must meet, including the deadlines for complying.
Guidance for operators, test laboratories and equipment suppliers on the quality assurance of continuous emissions monitoring systems (CEMS).
Unofficial list of waste description codes listed in annexes to the Waste Shipments Regulation.
Find out when Aggregates Levy applies to extracted rock, sand and gravel and when you need to register and pay.
S3 waste exemption lets you store sewage sludge at a site where it will be used in accordance with the Sludge (Use in Agriculture) Regulations 1989.
Guidance on the application of the Chapter I provision of the Competition Act 1998 to environmental sustainability agreements between businesses operating at the same level of the supply chain.
Provides best practice advice on minimising the risk of causing pollution while protecting natural resources.
DECC has today at 7AM published the outcome of the first CFD allocation round.
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