| Title: |
Environmental Permitting Programme. Second consultation on proposals for creating a streamlined environmental permitting and compliance system
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| Resource Type: |
document --> policy documents
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| Country: |
United Kingdom
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| Year: |
2006 |
| Availability: |
PB 12124b
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| Author 1/Producer: |
Department for Environment Food and Rural Affairs - Defra
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| Author / Producer Type: |
Agency, regulator or other governmental or inter-governmental body
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| Publisher: |
Defra
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| Publisher City: |
Nobel House
17 Smith Square
London SW1P 3JR
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| Format (e.g. PDF): |
PDF
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| Size: (e.g. 20mb) |
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EUGRIS Keyword(s): |
Contaminated land-->policy and regulatory
Contaminated land-->Remediation options-->Ex situ treatment technologies
Contaminated land-->Remediation options-->Excavation
Contaminated land-->Remediation options-->In situ treatment technologies
Contaminated land-->Remediation options-->Recycling/reuse
Contaminated land-->Remediation options-->Remediation options overview
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| Short description: |
The Environmental Permitting Programme (EPP) is a Better Regulation initiative designed to reduce costs for business and regulators by cutting red tape, without changing levels of protection for the environment and human health.
It will do this by streamlining and simplifying environmental permitting and compliance systems.
These systems aim to minimise the environmental impact of business (e.g. by determining whether to give approvals for more potentially polluting processes, and where approvals are issued, by including operating conditions which must be met).
EPP seeks to enable them to do this more efficiently and effectively, cutting out unnecessary bureaucracy.
The focus is on streamlining and simplifying the nuts and bolts of environmental permitting and compliance systems (e.g. the processes of obtaining, varying and transferring permits), beginning with Waste Management Licensing and Pollution Prevention and Control.
No change to environmental standards, who the regulator is or what is regulated.
It is designed so that it could be extended to other systems in future.
Savings of around £90 million over ten years are forecast, through a reduction of the administrative burden on business and regulators and through wider economic benefits.
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Submitted By:
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Professor Paul Bardos WhoDoesWhat?
Last update: 07/12/2006
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