Statutory guidance: Abstraction Licences Charging Scheme

Regional charges (standard unit charges and environmental improvement unit charges) for abstraction licences from April 2018.

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Statutory guidance: Waste (Miscellaneous) Charging Scheme

This charging scheme covers:

  • Waste electrical and electronic equipment
  • Waste batteries and accumulators
  • Waste carriers, brokers and dealers
  • International waste shipments
  • Transfrontier shipment of radioactive waste and spent fuel

See the Environmental Permitting Charging Scheme and the Environmental permitting charges guidance for waste permit charges.




Statutory guidance: European Union Emissions Trading Charging Scheme

This detailed legal document is the Environment Agency’s charging scheme for the EU ETS. It covers charges for installation and aircraft operators, registry users and for applications in respect of the Kyoto Protocol project activities (Joint Implementation and Clean Development Mechanism).




Statutory guidance: Environmental Permitting Charging Scheme

Updated: This page has been updated by the Environment Agency as a result of the strategic review of charges. The review was consulted on between November 2017 and January 2018. The changes commence from April 2018.

This document covers charges for activities that require a permit or registered exemption from the Environment Agency under Environmental Permitting (England and Wales) Regulations 2016.

The charging scheme covers these activities:

  • flood risk activities
  • installations
  • waste operations
  • mining waste operations
  • mobile plant
  • land spreading
  • water discharge activities
  • groundwater activities
  • radioactive substances activities
  • exempt waste operations

See the Environmental permitting charges guidance for more information about these charges.

Help

For billing queries contact the address on the back of your invoice.

For queries regarding the interpretation of charges email enquiries@environment-agency.gov.uk.




Research and analysis: Future of the sea

This report considers the role that science and technology can play in understanding and providing solutions to the long-term issues affecting the sea. It outlines a number of recommendations to help the UK utilise its current expertise and technological strengths to foster trade links, build marine capacity across the world and collaborate to tackle climate change.

Further details of the project and the supporting evidence are available from the Foresight project page.