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Research: Environment Agency 2022 data on regulated businesses in England

Environment Agency

February 28
15:00 2024

These datasets support theReview of activities regulated by the Environment Agency, 2022 report.

Compliance ratings for waste and installation permits

Thecompliance ratings dataseton data.gov.uk contains compliance ratings for all waste and installation permits. We use compliance ratings to help assess the risks from a regulated facility. It helps us identify the operators and facilities that pose a higher risk to the environment and where we need to spend more time regulating and carrying out compliance assessments. Ratings A and B indicate good performance whilst bands D, E and F indicate poor performance.

Pollution inventory

Thepollution inventory dataseton data.gov.uk contains information from thepollution inventoryfor each release type (to air, land and waste transfers off-site). The data is grouped by sector for the industrial activities we regulate.

Pollution incidents

The pollution incidents dataset attached to this page provides information about incidents that met our category 1 and 2 impact criteria for those reported in 2022. These are the most serious environmental incidents we deal with.

Compliance assessment

Thenational compliance assessmentandcompliance classification schemedatasets on data.gov.uk contain details of compliance assessments and breaches of permits.

Enforcement action

Theprosecutions dataseton data.gov.uk contains details of prosecutions for all the regimes we regulate. Find out more about ourposition on enforcement and sanctions.

Waste crime

The waste crime summary dataset attached to this page contains details of the numbers, types and activities associated with illegal waste sites, large-scale illegal dumping and illegal waste exports.

Thewaste investigations dataseton data.gov.uk contains information about our waste crime investigation work and outcomes.

Theillegal dumping incidents dataseton data.gov.uk contains all incidents of illegal dumping (fly-tipping) reported to us. Illegal dumping means the illegal deposit of liquid or solid waste on land, not covered by a permit or exemption.

Use of this data

Weve made the data on this page available to members of the public for information. Weve published each dataset under either theopen government licenceor theEnvironment Agency conditional licence. Each dataset states the licence its published under. If you use the information you must meet the conditions of the relevant licence.

Published 28 February 2024

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