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Compliance is important in ensuring that the environment and human health are protected. Once you have received authorisation for your activity, we will inspect and monitor against your conditions to ensure at these are being met and remain relevant. Our compliance assessment scheme (CAS) has been designed to demonstrate the level of compliance associated with specific licence conditions. The 2009-2019 Compliance Assessment Scheme is no longer applied. Our work to develop a new approach to assessing environmental performance can be found on our Performance Assessment Scheme page....

Position statements These set out our approach to particular issues that arise during the regulatory process: WAT-PS-06-08: Policy and supporting guidance on provision of waste water drainage in settlements WAT-PS-10-01: Assigning groundwater assessment criteria for pollutant inputs WAT-PS-10-02: Assigning groundwater assessment criteria for pollutant inputs This applies from 1 February 2025 Gui

The UK-PRTR is a publicly accessible dataset that provides detailed information about pollution emissions from industrial sites and other designated sources across the United Kingdom. As a consequence of EU exit, the E-PRTR Regulation became UK law and is known as the UK-PRTR. The EU and the UK are signatories to the UNECE PRTR Protocol, which is the overarching legal instrument for the respective

Pollution control Pollution control authorisations We are now able to accept pre-application proposals, new applications, variations, transfers and surrenders covering abstractions, impoundments and hydro schemes. We would strongly encourage pre-application enquiries prior to submitting applications. What should you do now? Email application forms along with supporting information to registry Email pre-application