Consultations

SEPA welcomes your involvement in its policy making and you are invited to comment on any of the current consultations shown in the table below. Each consultation document gives details of how to respond and the closing date for responses.

You can also view our closed consultations, as well as SEPA's responses to third party consultations:

Consultations that fall under the Public Participation Directive can be found below:

Advertised applications under the Water Environment (Controlled Activities) (Scotland) Regulations 2011 can be found below:

Please note that most documents are in PDF format. If you can’t view these documents, download Adobe Reader for free:

Title Deadline for comment

Thermal Treatment of Waste Guidelines 2013

 

SEPA is consulting on proposed Thermal Treatment of Waste Guidelines 2013. They update and replace the 2009 guidelines to take account of new policy, legislation and practice in the industry.

 

19 July 2013

Revising the Scottish Pollutant Release Inventory (SPRI) pollutant list and reporting requirements

 

The purpose of this consultation is to seek comments on the proposed revision of the Scottish Pollutant Release Inventory (SPRI) pollutant list and other reporting requirements. This is the first time the SPRI pollutant substance list has been subject to review since its introduction in 2002.

 

Our proposal should reduce the regulatory burden on industry and simplify the SPRI system. We are proposing the removal of substances from the SPRI reporting list that are not currently reported, infrequently reported or not required to be reported under legislation.

 

The consultation provides information on what substances SEPA intends to retain within the SPRI pollutant list, the substances it proposes to remove and a justification for the decision-making.

 

This consultation also provides additional suggestions for revising the methods of reporting substances.

 

You can access the consultation by clicking on the following links:

17 July 2013