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Overview of PPC regulations, how they are applied and available guidance. We are transitioning to a new website and authorisation process and the information on this webpage is not up to date. Please go to our Environmental Authorisation (Scotland) Regulation (EASR) webpage to find information on applying for Industrial activities authorisations. The following pages can also be found on our Topics page: Best Available Techniques (BAT) for industrial activitie

SEPA often receives environmental event notifications for issues for which are the statutory responsibility of other organisations. To help you get to the right place quickly the table below provides a quick guide to a number of issues, together with how you can contact the right organisation. Responsibilities by topic Responsibilities Organisations Abandoned vehicles Your local authority Y

This content is currently under review and the following pages have now moved over to our BETA website: Regulatory framework Pre-application Permit application Environmental standards Medicines and chemicals Sea lice regulatory framework Screening modelling and risk identification report Aquaculture is the growing of finfish and shellfish. In Scotland, this primarily involves the farming of: sa

Links Acronyms and abbreviations Glossary of terms European Waste Catalogue – for coding waste NACE and SIC codes Recovery and Disposal codes* Scottish Government guidance on applying the waste hierarchy Nomenclature of Units for Territorial Statistics (NUTS) areas(14kb) Waste strategy areas(86kb) *Recovery and Disposal codes Waste management activities are classed as recovery (R) or disposal (D

Description of the type of data held about waste sites and why we collect it. Scottish waste sites and capacity tool Information Reporting years Last updated Landfill sites and capacity (Annual) 2014 - 2024 January 2026 Waste sites and capacity (Annual) 2014 - 2024 January 2026 Site return data (Quarterly) Q1 2007 – Q4 2024 January 2026 Waste sites and capacity information This Scottish waste sites and capacity tool provides an annual summar

Further technical guidance This page brings together a number of ancillary guidance documents and previous email bulletin information relating to modelling of marine fish-farms for CAR licence applications. Auxiliary biomass sampling transect In areas where the tidal residual current is weak, the auxiliary transect (site-specific sampling 2) may be aligned along a bearing reciprocal to the primary

List of data published by SEPA. Links to access data itself or applications that show the data We publish a range of datasets related to the environment, and we are continually reviewing and adding to this list. Please use our online form to contact us if you cannot find the dataset you require. We have a Corrections policy for handling revisions and corrections to the statistical summaries we produce. Our User engagement policy specifies how we engage with users to ensure our statistics ar