UK Statutory Instrument
2010
United Kingdom
The Environmental Permitting (England and Wales) Regulations 2010 (revoked)
At a glance
Enforced by
What's here
3 compliance obligations
Penalty landscape
1 of 3 obligations carry imprisonment (51 weeks). 2 have no criminal penalty — flagged in the list below.
Who this Act binds
Business-side actors with duties under this Act, ranked by how often they appear.
- Any Person 1
Plus 2 non-business duties on Crown ministers, regulators, local authorities or tribunals — shown collapsed under each section below.
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Any Person also bound by 770 other Acts (top 5 shown)
- Human Medicines Regulations 2012 2012 110 duties
- Merchant Shipping Act 1995 1995 97 duties
- Road Traffic Act 1988 1988 95 duties
- Air Navigation Order 2016 2016 86 duties
- Licensing Act 2003 2003 78 duties
What this Act requires
Sections that create concrete duties on businesses or carry penalties. Procedural and definitional sections are folded into the “Browse other sections” expander at the bottom of each group. Click any section title to read the source text on legislation.gov.uk.
Part 1 — General
Browse 10 other sections in this Part — procedural / definitional / commencement
Interpretation: general
Interpretation: Directives
Exempt facilities
Interpretation: exempt facilities
Interpretation: local authority
Interpretation: operate a regulated facility and operator
Interpretation: regulated facility and class of regulated facility
Interpretation: relevant function
Giving notices, notifications and directions, and the submission of forms
Part 2 — Environmental Permits
Browse 21 other sections in this Part — procedural / definitional / commencement
Application to the Crown
Requirement for environmental permit
Grant of an environmental permit
Content and form of an environmental permit
Conditions in relation to certain land
Mobile plant operating on the site of another regulated facility: conflict of permit conditions
Single site permits etc.
Consolidation of an environmental permit
Subsistence of an environmental permit
Variation of an environmental permit
Transfer of an environmental permit
Revocation of an environmental permit: general
Revocation of an environmental permit: steps to be taken after the revocation takes effect
Notification of the surrender of an environmental permit
Application for the surrender of an environmental permit
Preparation and revision of standard rules
Standard rules as conditions of an environmental permit
Notification of revisions of standard rules
Revocation of standard rules
Variation of an environmental permit: revocation of standard rules
Appeals to an appropriate authority
Part 3 — Discharge of functions in relation to a regulated facility
Browse 4 other sections in this Part — procedural / definitional / commencement
Part 4 — Enforcement and offences
Offences
51 weeks imprisonment- Fail to comply with a gambling enforcement or suspension notice Any Person
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Enforcement notices
Suspension notices
Penalties
Defences
Offences by bodies corporate
Enforcement by the High Court
Admissibility of evidence
Power of court to order cause of offence to be remedied
Part 5 — Public Registers
Duty of the regulator to maintain a public register
Other duties (1) — Crown / regulator
- Gambling Commission must maintain a public register Statutory regulator
Duty to determine confidentiality
Other duties (1) — Crown / regulator
- Gambling Commission must determine if information is confidential Statutory regulator
Browse 10 other sections in this Part — procedural / definitional / commencement
Interpretation of this Part
Exclusion from public registers of information affecting national security
Exclusion from public registers of confidential information
Procedure if the regulator considers that information may be confidential
Determination of confidentiality
Procedure following a determination
Appeals in relation to confidentiality
Consequences of an appeal
Reconsideration of confidentiality
Directions of the appropriate authority in relation to confidentiality
Part 6 — Powers and functions of the regulator and the appropriate authority
Browse 10 other sections in this Part — procedural / definitional / commencement
Power of the regulator to prevent or remedy pollution
Environment Agency: notices in relation to emissions to water
Environment Agency: public participation statement
Power to require the provision of information
Directions to regulators and exemption registration authorities: general
Reference of applications to an appropriate authority
Directions to the Agency: installations outside the United Kingdom
Guidance to regulators and exemption registration authorities
Fees and charges in relation to the exercise of regulator's functions by local authorities
Plans relating to emissions
Part 7 — Miscellaneous provisions
Browse 47 other sections in this Part — procedural / definitional / commencement
Interpretation of this Part
Further provision in relation to waste and extractive waste
Existing permits
Site plans not required for existing permits
Review of existing groundwater permits
Radioactive substances exemption orders
Exempt water discharge activities
Exempt groundwater activities
Transitional applications
Transfer notices under former enactments
Existing notices under former enactments
Outstanding appeals against existing notices
Appeals under these Regulations against existing notices
Decisions under former enactments
Outstanding appeals against decisions under former enactments
Appeals under these Regulations against decisions under former enactments
Existing directions under former enactments
Public registers under former enactments
Recovery of expenses for disposal of radioactive waste
Existing environmental permits
Applications under the 2007 Regulations
Applications for grant of PPC permit or waste management licence
2007 transitional applications for grant of PPC permit, other than in relation to landfill
2007 transitional applications for grant of PPC permit in relation to landfill
2007 transitional applications for grant of PPC permit in relation to landfill: applications determined under the 2007 Regulations
2007 transitional applications not relating to grant of PPC permit
Notifications of surrender
Existing notices under the 2007 Regulations or former PPC or waste legislation
Outstanding appeals against existing notices
Appeals under these Regulations against existing notices
Decisions under the 2007 Regulations or former PPC or waste legislation
Outstanding appeals against decisions under the 2007 Regulations or former PPC or waste legislation
Appeals under these Regulations against decisions under the 2007 Regulations or former PPC or waste legislation
Other existing notices and instruments
Existing directions under the 2007 Regulations
Public registers
Existing exempt waste operations
Existing Part A(1) installations
Existing mining waste operations
Savings
Consequential amendments
Revocations
Repeals
End time: regulations 72A and 72B
Existing radioactive substances permits
Previously excluded radioactive material and radioactive waste
Previously exempt radioactive substances activities
Schedules
Browse 207 other Schedules — structural / supplementary
Activities, installations and mobile plant
Application of Part B activities: releases into the air
References to releases into water
References to certain substances
Exempt facilities: general
Interpretation: general
Restrictions on registering exempt waste operations carried on at the same place
Fee for registration relating to WEEE operations
Validity of registration of waste operations
Changes to relevant particulars relating to waste operations
Record keeping for exempt waste operations
Periodic inspections of establishments and undertakings
Interpretation: exemption registration authority
Exempt waste operations
Exempt water discharge activities
Exempt groundwater activities
Procedure for registering an exempt facility
Register of exempt facilities
Duty to remove entries from the register
Exclusion from the register of information affecting national security
Exempt facilities: descriptions and conditions
Crushing waste fluorescent tubes (T17)
Dewatering using flocculants (T18)
Physical treatment of waste edible oil and fat to produce biodiesel (T19)
Treatment of waste at a water treatment works (T20)
Recovery of waste at a waste water treatment works (T21)
Treatment of animal by-product waste at a collection centre (T22)
Aerobic composting and associated prior treatment (T23)
Anaerobic digestion at premises used for agriculture and burning of resultant biogas (T24)
Anaerobic digestion at premises not used for agriculture and burning of resultant biogas (T25)
Treatment of kitchen waste in a wormery (T26)
Treatment of sheep dip for disposal (T27)
Sorting and de-naturing of controlled drugs for disposal (T28)
Treatment of non-hazardous pesticide washings by carbon filtration for disposal (T29)
Recovery of silver (T30)
Recovery of monopropylene glycol from aircraft antifreeze fluids (T31)
Treatment of waste in a biobed or biofilter (T32)
Recovery of central heating oil by filtration (T33)
Application to the Crown
Crown application
Contravention of these Regulations by the Crown
Entry to Crown premises
Service on certain Crown operators
Application of this Schedule to certain radioactive substances activities
Environmental permits
Consultation with other member States
Duty to consider representations
Duty to determine an application
Identity and competence of the operator
Surrender applications
Time limits for determination
Calculation of the relevant period
Notification of a determination or decision
Date of effect of certain determinations and decisions
Form of certain determinations and decisions: consolidation of permits
Consultation: conditions mentioned in regulation 15(1)
Appeals to the appropriate authority
Interpretation
Making an appeal
Time limit for making an appeal
Notice to affected and interested persons
Hearing before an appointed person
Notice of determination of an appeal
Procedure following the quashing of a determination of an appropriate authority
Part A installations and Part A mobile plant
Application
Interpretation
Exercise of regulator's functions: general
Applications for the grant of an environmental permit
Exercise of relevant functions
Public participation
Review of environmental permits
Developments in best available techniques
Part B installations and Part B mobile plant
Application
Interpretation
Exercise of regulator's functions: general
Applications for the grant of an environmental permit
Exercise of relevant functions
Review of environmental permits
Developments in best available techniques
Waste operations
Application
Interpretation
Grant of an environmental permit for a relevant waste operation: requirement for prior planning permission
Exercise of relevant functions
Exercise of relevant functions: disposal of waste
Landfill
Application
Closure of a landfill
Surrender applications
Interpretation: general
Applications for the grant of an environmental permit
Inspection prior to operation
Exercise of relevant functions
Interpretation of the Landfill Directive for the exercise of relevant functions
Interpretation of the Decision Annex for the exercise of relevant functions: general
Interpretation of the Decision Annex for the exercise of relevant functions: additional acceptance criteria relating to physical stability and bearing capacity of granular waste
Interpretation of the Decision Annex for the exercise of relevant functions: additional acceptance criteria in relating to monolithic waste
Waste motor vehicles
Application
Interpretation
Exercise of relevant functions
Waste electrical and electronic equipment
Application
Interpretation
Exercise of relevant functions
Waste incineration
Application
Interpretation
Applications for the grant of an environmental permit
Exercise of relevant functions
SED installations
Application
Interpretation
Exercise of relevant functions
Large combustion plants
Application
Interpretation
Exercise of relevant functions
Asbestos
Application
Interpretation
Exercise of relevant functions
Titanium dioxide
Application
Interpretation
Exercise of relevant functions
Petrol vapour recovery
Application
Interpretation
Exercise of relevant functions
Waste batteries and accumulators
Application
Exercise of relevant functions
Mining waste operations
Application
Closure of a mining waste facility
Inventory of closed mining waste facilities
Developments in best available techniques
Planning permission requirements and conditions
Applications for grant or variation of an environmental permit for a Category A mining waste facility
Interpretation
Applications for grant or variation of an environmental permit
Review of environmental permits
Classification of mining waste facilities
Inspections
Exercise of relevant functions
Public participation
Derogation from requirements
Water discharge activities
Application
Interpretation
Meaning of “water discharge activity”
Highway drains – notice requiring environmental permit
Discharge of trade effluent or sewage effluent into lake or pond – notice requiring environmental permit
Liability resulting from discharge of sewage effluent from public sewer
Groundwater activities
Application
Notice requiring environmental permit
Notice in relation to a highway drain
Notice in relation to a domestic septic tank or sewage treatment plant
Guidance
Liability resulting from discharge of sewage effluent from public sewer
Interpretation
Meaning of “groundwater activity”
Meaning of “hazardous substance”
Meaning of “non-hazardous pollutant”
Exercise of relevant functions
Applications for grant of environmental permit
Groundwater activities for which a permit may be granted
Prohibition notice
Radioactive substances activities
Exemption for receiving and disposing of solid radioactive waste
Conditions in respect of aqueous radioactive waste in paragraph 21
. . . . . . . . . ....
Exemption for accumulating radioactive waste
Radioactive substances exempted under paragraphs 3 and 4
Conditions in respect of the total quantity or concentration of radioactive substances on any premises
Public registers
Matters to be included in a public register
Information no longer relevant for public participation
Formal cautions
Waste and extractive waste
Consequential amendments
The Weighing Equipment (Automatic Catchweighing Instruments) Regulations 2003
The Water Environment (Water Framework Directive) (England and Wales) Regulations 2003
The Hazardous Waste (England and Wales) Regulations 2005
The Greenhouse Gas Emissions Trading Scheme Regulations 2005
The Hazardous Waste (Wales) Regulations 2005
The Volatile Organic Compounds in Paints, Varnishes and Vehicle Refinishing Products Regulations 2005
The Railways Infrastructure (Access and Management) Regulations 2005
The Waste Management (England and Wales) Regulations 2006
The Measuring Instruments (Automatic Rail-weighbridges) Regulations 2006
The Measuring Instruments (Automatic Catchweighers) Regulations 2006
The Measuring Instruments (Automatic Gravimetric Filling Instruments) Regulations 2006
The Contaminated Land (England) Regulations 2006
The Contaminated Land (Wales) Regulations 2006
The Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment Regulations 2006
The Producer Responsibility Obligations (Packaging Waste) Regulations 2007
The Transfrontier Shipment of Waste Regulations 2007
The Large Combustion Plants (National Emission Reduction Plan) Regulations 2007
The Persistent Organic Pollutants Regulations 2007
The Environmental Damage (England) Regulations 2009
The Waste Batteries and Accumulators Regulations 2009
Revocations
Repeals
Other sections — not classified into a Part
These sections exist in the Act but the contents-of-Parts walker did not place them under a Part. Likely amendments or sections inserted out of the original Part structure.
Browse 113 other unclassified sections
Citation, commencement, extent and application
Interpretation: general
Interpretation: Directives
Exempt facilities
Interpretation: exempt facilities
Interpretation: local authority
Interpretation: operate a regulated facility and operator
Interpretation: regulated facility and class of regulated facility
Interpretation: relevant function
Giving notices, notifications and directions, and the submission of forms
Application to the Crown
Requirement for environmental permit
Grant of an environmental permit
Content and form of an environmental permit
Conditions in relation to certain land
Mobile plant operating on the site of another regulated facility: conflict of permit conditions
Single site permits etc.
Consolidation of an environmental permit
Subsistence of an environmental permit
Variation of an environmental permit
Transfer of an environmental permit
Revocation of an environmental permit: general
Revocation of an environmental permit: steps to be taken after the revocation takes effect
Notification of the surrender of an environmental permit
Application for the surrender of an environmental permit
Preparation and revision of standard rules
Standard rules as conditions of an environmental permit
Notification of revisions of standard rules
Revocation of standard rules
Variation of an environmental permit: revocation of standard rules
Appeals to an appropriate authority
Discharge of functions
Direction to a regulator: discharge of functions by a different regulator
Review of environmental permits and inspection of regulated facilities
Specific provisions applying to environmental permits
Enforcement notices
Suspension notices
Offences
Penalties
Defences
Offences by bodies corporate
Enforcement by the High Court
Admissibility of evidence
Power of court to order cause of offence to be remedied
Interpretation of this Part
Duty of the regulator to maintain a public register
Exclusion from public registers of information affecting national security
Exclusion from public registers of confidential information
Procedure if the regulator considers that information may be confidential
Duty to determine confidentiality
Determination of confidentiality
Procedure following a determination
Appeals in relation to confidentiality
Consequences of an appeal
Reconsideration of confidentiality
Directions of the appropriate authority in relation to confidentiality
Power of the regulator to prevent or remedy pollution
Environment Agency: notices in relation to emissions to water
Environment Agency: public participation statement
Power to require the provision of information
Directions to regulators and exemption registration authorities: general
Reference of applications to an appropriate authority
Directions to the Agency: installations outside the United Kingdom
Guidance to regulators and exemption registration authorities
Fees and charges in relation to the exercise of regulator's functions by local authorities
Plans relating to emissions
Interpretation of this Part
Further provision in relation to waste and extractive waste
Existing permits
Site plans not required for existing permits
Review of existing groundwater permits
Radioactive substances exemption orders
Previously excluded radioactive material and radioactive waste
Previously exempt radioactive substances activities
End time: regulations 72A and 72B
Existing radioactive substances permits
Exempt water discharge activities
Exempt groundwater activities
Transitional applications
Transfer notices under former enactments
Existing notices under former enactments
Outstanding appeals against existing notices
Appeals under these Regulations against existing notices
Decisions under former enactments
Outstanding appeals against decisions under former enactments
Appeals under these Regulations against decisions under former enactments
Existing directions under former enactments
Public registers under former enactments
Recovery of expenses for disposal of radioactive waste
Existing environmental permits
Applications under the 2007 Regulations
Applications for grant of PPC permit or waste management licence
2007 transitional applications for grant of PPC permit, other than in relation to landfill
2007 transitional applications for grant of PPC permit in relation to landfill
2007 transitional applications for grant of PPC permit in relation to landfill: applications determined under the 2007 Regulations
2007 transitional applications not relating to grant of PPC permit
Notifications of surrender
Existing notices under the 2007 Regulations or former PPC or waste legislation
Outstanding appeals against existing notices
Appeals under these Regulations against existing notices
Decisions under the 2007 Regulations or former PPC or waste legislation
Outstanding appeals against decisions under the 2007 Regulations or former PPC or waste legislation
Appeals under these Regulations against decisions under the 2007 Regulations or former PPC or waste legislation
Other existing notices and instruments
Existing directions under the 2007 Regulations
Public registers
Existing exempt waste operations
Existing Part A(1) installations
Existing mining waste operations
Savings
Consequential amendments
Revocations
Repeals
Enforcement and responsible bodies
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