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What is the Environmental Permitting Programme?

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The Environmental Permitting Programme (EPP) is a joint Environment Agency, Defra and Welsh Assembly Government initiative that will streamline the waste management licensing and pollution prevention control regimes from April 2008.

The focus is on streamlining and simplifying the nuts and bolts of environmental permitting and compliance systems (eg, the processes of obtaining, varying and transferring permits), beginning with Waste Management Licensing, Pollution Prevention and Control. It is designed so that it could be extended to other systems in future.  

EPP will:

• be a modern, proportionate, risk-based system that is easier, quicker and cheaper to use
• not change what is regulated or who regulates
• drastically reduce the amount of guidance and forms used
• use a streamlined IT system being developed under Core Regulation and the charging scheme being developed under the Unified Charging Scheme
• save industry and regulators time and money

 

Recent developments

11 October 2007

• The draft Environmental Permitting (England and Wales) Regulations 2007 have been laid in Parliament.
  Please see the Regulations and the accompanying Explanatory Memorandum.
• The Final Regulatory Impact Assessment document has now been published.
  

10 October 2007

• The fourth EPP consultation on Government Guidance for EU Directives and Waste Technical Competence is now closed. A summary of responses will be published in the new year.

13 September 2007

• Environment Agency consultation on standard permits - seeking views on the first sets of standard rules that will be made available when the Environmental Permitting (EP) Regulations come into force in April 2008. They cover 28 low to medium risk activities that currently require a waste management licence, such as waste transfer stations and civic amenity sites. 

18 July 2007

• Fourth EPP consultation on Government Guidance for EU Directives and Waste Technical Competence, the deadline for comments is 10 October 2007
• Third EPP consultation: summary of responses

26 June 2007

• A draft revised version of the local authority General Guidance Manual was launched for consultation as part of the Environmental Permitting Programme. The deadline for comments is 4 September 2007.

13 April 2007

• The Environment Agency have launched the EPP Public Participation Statement consultation, Working together: your role in our environmental permitting decision making. This is a necessary part of the new environmental permitting system being delivered under EPP: Environment Agency’s consultation website.

 

If you would like more information about EPP please contact your trade organisation - or the EPP team directly on epp@defra.gsi.gov.uk.

Page last modified: 2 November 2007
Page published: 28 October 2005

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