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The T28 exemption allows pharmacies and similar places to denature controlled drugs to comply with Misuse of Drugs Regulations 2001.
When you need to do an environmental risk assessment, when the Environment Agency will do it for you, and how to do a risk assessment.
The D7 exemption allows you to burn plant tissue and untreated wood waste from joinery or manufacturing in the open air.
How you must control and monitor emissions from your activities that may cause pollution.
How the Environment Agency charges for activities that need an environmental permit and the charges you must pay.
Find out if and by when you need to apply for a medium combustion plant directive (MCPD) environmental permit to meet air quality requirements.
This guidance explains the appropriate measures that regulated facilities permitted to store, treat or transfer (or both) non-hazardous and inert waste should consider.
How to apply for standard rules and bespoke permits for A1 installations, including low impact installations.
Explains the definition of ‘regulated facility’ and how they are grouped into classes.
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.
How to complete waste or materials facility returns, and deadlines for submission.
The T11 exemption allows you to repair, refurbish or dismantle various types of WEEE so that the whole WEEE item or any parts can be reused for their original purpose or recovered.
Find out if and by when you need to apply for a specified generator environmental permit to meet air quality requirements.
The T4 exemption allows you to treat waste to reduce its volume for transport to another site for reuse, recycling or to make handling easier.
Plan for climate change impacts to and from your site. How to integrate climate change adaptation into your management system under an environmental permit.
Environment Agency enforcement position on temporary discharges of uncontaminated water from excavations to surface water without a water discharge activity permit.
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.
When the MCP is exempt from meeting emission limit values (ELVs), which ELVs apply and the deadlines for meeting them.
Find out the legal, financial and professional requirements for operators and managers, including extra duties for waste activity operators.
Appropriate measures for permitted waste management facilities that handle organic waste, also known as biowaste.
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