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These Regulations provide a system for permitting specified environmentally significant operations, a system of consenting of water discharges, a groundwater permitting system and a system of radioactive substances regulation. They provide for the implementation of EU legislation in the field of, among other things, integrated pollution prevention and control, waste management and landfill, water policy, groundwater protection and radioactivity. The Regulations require every regulated facility (as defined) to be operated under the authority of an environmental permit.The Regulations provide, among other things, for: the discharge of functions by the regulator in relation to permits, procedures for environmental permitting, enforcement notices and other enforcement measures and powers of the regulator.
Amended by: Environmental Permitting (England and Wales) (Amendment) Regulations 2015 (S.I. No. 918 of 2015). (2015-03-20)
Amended by: Environmental Permitting (England and Wales) (Amendment) Regulations 2010 (S.I. No. 676 of 2010). (2010-03-10)
Amended by: Environmental Permitting (England and Wales) (Amendment) (No. 2) Regulations 2010 (S.I. No. 2172 of 2010). (2010-08-31)
Amended by: Environmental Permitting (England and Wales) (Amendment) Regulations 2011 (S.I. No. 2043 of 2011). (2011-08-11)
Amended by: Environmental Permitting (England and Wales) (Amendment) (No. 2) Regulations 2011 (S.I. No. 2933 of 2011). (2011-12-06)
Amended by: Environmental Permitting (England and Wales) (Amendment) Regulations 2012 (S.I. No. 630 of 2012). (2012-02-28)
Amended by: Environmental Permitting (England and Wales) (Amendment) Regulations 2015 (S.I. No. 324 of 2015). (2015-02-16)
Amended by: Environmental Permitting (England and Wales) (Amendment)(No.2) Regulations 2015 (S.I. No. 934 of 2015). (2015-03-26)
Amended by: Environmental Permitting (England and Wales) (Amendment)(No.3) Regulations 2015 (S.I. No. 1756 of 2015). (2015-10-06)
Amended by: Environmental Permitting (England and Wales) (Amendment) Regulations 2016 (S.I. No. 149 of 2016). (2016-02-04)
Amended by: Environmental Permitting (England and Wales) (Amendment) Regulations 2013 (S.I. No. 390 of 2013). (2013-02-20)
Amended by: Environmental Permitting (England and Wales) (Amendment) Regulations 2014 (S.I. No. 2852 of 2014). (2014-10-23)
Amended by: Waste (England and Wales) Regulations 2011 (S.I. No. 988 of 2011). (2011-03-28)
Amended by: Environmental Permitting (England and Wales) (Amendment) (No. 2) Regulations 2013 (S.I. No. 766 of 2013). (2013-03-27)
Amended by: Large Combustion Plants (Transitional National Plan) Regulations 2015 (S.I. No. 1973 of 2015). (2015-12-02)
Amended by: Environmental Permitting (England and Wales) (Amendment) (No. 2) Regulations 2016 (S.I. No. 475 of 2016). (2016-03-24)
Amended by: Waste (Meaning of Recovery) (Miscellaneous Amendments) (Wales) Regulations 2016 (S.I. No. 691 (W. 189) of 2016). (2016-06-28)
Amended by: Controlled Waste (England and Wales) Regulations 2012 (S.I. No. 811 of 2012). (2012-03-12)
Amended by: Hazardous Waste (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 2015 (S.I. No. 1360 of 2015). (2015-06-05)
Amended by: Hazardous Waste (Miscellaneous Amendments) (Wales) Regulations 2015 (W.S.I. No. 1417 (W. 141) of 2015). (2015-06-24)
Amended by: Animal By-Products (Enforcement) (England) Regulations 2013 (S.I. No. 2952 of 2013). (2013-11-18)
Amended by: Animal By-Products (Enforcement) (No. 2) (Wales) Regulations 2011 (W.S.I. No. 2377 (W.250) of 2011). (2011)
Amends: Environmental Protection Act 1990 (Chapter 43). (1990-11-01)
Amends: Water Resources Act 1991 (Chapter 57). (1991-07-25)
Amends: Radioactive Substances Act 1993 (c. 12). (1993-05-27)
Amends: Environment Act 1995 (Chapter 25). (1995-07-19)
Amends: Food Standards Act 1999 (Chapter 28). (1999-11-11)
Amends: Climate Change Act 2008 (Chapter 27 of 2008). (2008-09-26)
Repealed by: Environmental Permitting (England and Wales) Regulations 2016 (S.I. 1154 of 2016). (2016-12-11)
Repeals: Environmental Permitting (England and Wales) Regulations 2007 (S.I. 3538 of 2007). (2007-12-13)
Repeals: Groundwater (England and Wales) Regulations 2009 (S.I. No. 2902 of 2009). (2009-10-29)