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Likelihood of Flooding

Likelihood of Flooding The chance of flooding occurring. You can select to see information for three flooding likelihoods: High, medium and low.High likelihood: A flood event is likely to occur in the defined area on average once in every ten years (1:10). Or a 10% chance of happening in any one year. Medium likelihood: A flood event is likely to occur in the defined on average once in every two h

Policy and strategy

Policy and strategy lead and co-ordinate environmental policy and strategy development within SEPA, promote improvements in regulation and deliver integrated policies and strategies. Our Policy and Strategy departments are responsible for implementing emerging legislation and putting effective monitoring in place and reporting on the progress of these implementations.

Policy and strategy lead and co-ordinate environmental policy and strategy development within SEPA, promote improvements in regulation and deliver integrated policies and strategies. Our Policy and Strategy departments are responsible for implementing emerging legislation and putting effective monitoring in place and reporting on the progress of these implementations. Our Policy and Strategy departments are responsible for implementing emerging legislation and putting effective monitoring in place and reporting on the progress of these implementations. The personnel within each department specialise in one of five key areas of environmental significance; air, waste, water, land and radioactive substances. Policy Officer

Compliance assessment scheme summaries

A summary of the yeary compliance assessments.

A summary of the yeary compliance assessments. 2019 assessment summary Scottish business environmental compliance was over 90% for the fifth year in a row in the latest data recovered and published following the cyber-attack on SEPA in December 2020. In 2019, we assessed 4,924 environmental authorisations and 91% of Scottish regulated business sites were assessed as compliant ('Excellent’, ‘Good’ or ‘Broadly Compliant’). 78.2% of Scottish regu

Waste

Conserving and protecting the world’s natural resources is vital. For Scotland to become a resilient, resource efficient economy, we must cut waste production, keep materials circulating for as long as possible, prevent the harms from waste management and tackle waste crime. SEPA’s waste to resources framework sets out how we work to deliver these goals, in line with our Sector Planning approach a

Marine Pen Fish Farm Monitoring

Temporary Regulatory Position Statement Scope This temporary regulatory position applies to marine pen finfish farms. SEPA’s latest template for finfish farms permits (October 2022) includes different monitoring requirements to those applying under previously issued permits. SEPA has agreed a process with operators to vary all active farms onto its latest permit template. This process is expected

Resource efficiency

As a society, we are over-using our planet’s resources. If everyone lived as we do in Scotland, we would need three planets to sustain ourselves. In the 21st century and beyond, only those businesses that operate in harmony with our one planet will thrive. Everyday SEPA works to protect and enhance Scotland's environment, helping communities and businesses prosper within the ecological capacities

Environmental monitoring

Our Science & Strategy Directorate is split into five specialist areas: marine, chemistry, environmental quality, ecology and hydrology. Each team in the Science & Strategy Directorate specialises in one of these key areas. The role and person specification information provided below is generic - specialist knowledge relating to the specific area of science will also be required. Science roles are

News and events

The latest news articles from the LFE SMART Waste project.

The latest news articles from the LFE SMART Waste project. LIFE SMART Waste project completion The LIFE SMART Waste project (2014-2020) has finally drawn to a close with the completion of its ambitious action plans to develop and demonstrate innovative ways of understanding, tackling and reducing the issue of waste crime. - Read the full news story INTERPOL publishes report on global plastic waste management INTERPOL have published a new open-source stra

Waste data reporting

Some of the reporting carried out by the Dataflows Unit is given below. Publication Latest reporting year Publication frequency Driver Next publication due Waste from all sources - data and quality report 2022 Annual 1 July 2025 Household Waste Discover Data tool 2022 Annual 1 29th October 2024, 9:30am Household waste data - commentary and data tables 20

Business waste data

Publication Reporting year When published Business waste data 2021 2021 June 2023 Business waste data 2018 2018 July 2020 Business waste data 2017 Methodology 2017 2017 May 2019 Business waste data 2016 Methodology 2016 2016 July 2018 Business waste data 2015 Methodology 2015 2015 Sept 2017 Business waste data 2014Methodology 2014 2014 Business waste data 2013Methodolog

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