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Policy Paper Published 13 Mar 2025 Environment Agency ↗ View on GOV.UK

Assessing and scoring environmental permit and licence compliance

How the Environment Agency assesses and scores compliance with environmental permits, abstraction licences and impounding licences.

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How the Environment Agency assesses and scores compliance for:

  • abstraction and impounding licences
  • discharges to surface water and groundwater permits
  • radioactive substances activities permits
  • waste operations and installations permits

These guides include:

  • 6 principles which explain how the Environment Agency assesses and scores permit compliance
  • an explanation of what happens after a compliance assessment
  • an explanation of how the Environment Agency uses the results of an assessment, including how this affects subsistence charges for waste operations and installations