ENVIRONMENT AGENCY REGULATORY POSITION STATEMENT - REPORTING DURING COVID-19

We have published a COVID-19 Regulatory Position Statement (RPS) titled ‘Reporting for installations, radioactive substances and waste activity permits’ on gov.uk (21^st April 2020): https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/reporting-for-installations-radioactive-substances-and-waste-permits-rps-c10.

This COVID-19 RPS explains when you can delay sending in certain data, reports and other records, required by your permit, because of Coronavirus (COVID-19) restrictions. This RPS only applies where Coronavirus (COVID-19) prevents you complying with the reporting deadlines required by your environmental permit. This COVID-19 RPS will be withdrawn on 30 June 2020 unless we extend it. After this date you must comply with your permit.

This Regulatory Position Statement includes strict conditions which must be followed to continue protecting people and the environment during this period. We expect all operators to abide by the law and the terms of their environmental permits, unless covered by this or another RPS.

You must notify the Environment Agency before you use this COVID-19 RPS. For further information or to notify us you wish to use this COVID-19 RPS, contact your Environment Agency regulatory officer or site inspector.

We will be publishing further COVID-19 RPSs over the next few weeks to support industry by being as flexible as possible in relation to permit requirements during the current Coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak whilst still providing a high standard of protection for the environment and human health.

You can find out more information about the Environment Agency’s operational response to Coronavirus (COVID-19) here:  https://www.gov.uk/government/news/environment-agency-operational-update-3-april-2020

Read a blog from our Chair, Emma Howard Boyd -  https://environmentagency.blog.gov.uk/2020/04/18/the-environment-agency-and-the-coronavirus-crisis/

Anne-Marie Gawronski

SULG Technical Secretary

Regulatory Officer RSR

Hertfordshire and North London

Environment Agency

Alchemy, Bessemer Road, Welwyn Garden City, AL7 1HE

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