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Use this service to create a UK storage document for fish and shellfish that have been imported or landed directly into the UK for storage, ready for export.

• Updated: 15 April 2025

How businesses and organisations can avoid causing pollution from oil and chemical storage, car washing, construction and other activities.

• Updated: 8 January 2024

How to store oil safely, check which oil storage regulations apply and pollution penalties

• Overview

  You have to follow certain regulations if you have an oil storage…

• Storing oil at your home

  You must meet building regulations if you have a new or replacement oil…

• Storing oil at your business

  You must follow the regulations for businesses if your oil container can…

How to store oil, design standards for tanks and containers, where to locate and how to protect them, and capacity of bunds and drip trays.

• Updated: 2 May 2023

Find out more about getting authorised consignor or consignee status to start or end transit movements at your own premises.

• Updated: 19 January 2023

Storage guidance for standardised waste packages containing Low Heat Generating Waste (LHGW)

• Updated: 20 November 2020

Find out about movements to temporary storage facilities from border locations in Great Britain operating the pre-lodgement model.

• Updated: 31 December 2021

Find out what repairs or processing you can do to your goods in a customs warehouse without authorisation, this is known as usual forms of handling.

• Updated: 15 June 2020

How you must control and monitor emissions from your activities that may cause pollution.

• Updated: 11 June 2025

S2 waste exemption allows you to store specific waste at a secure intermediate site, separate to where the waste was produced, before transportation to another site for recovery.

• Updated: 1 July 2025