If your permit states that your operations will start from a specified date in the future, the subsistence charge is payable from that date. If there is a delay between the issue of your permit and beginning work to construct or operate your site, you do not need to start paying the subsistence charge. For radioactive substances activities you do not need to start paying subsistence until the radioactive source needed for the activity is on the permitted site.
This is because the Environment Agency has not yet started regulatory scrutiny of the site. Sometimes the Environment Agency sets pre-operational conditions and will carry out additional assessments at the design stage before an operation starts.
They recover the costs for this work under their charge for approvals required by permit conditions. The Environment Agency will also charge a higher charge for the first 2 years of operation after a new plant has been commissioned. See table 2. Or, it could be at some other point in the commissioning process, if agreed in writing with the Environment Agency.
This section only applies to the waste treatment sector activities in table 2. You must pay this in full. This charge covers the costs of additional regulatory effort by the Environment Agency to provide advice and support during your first year of operations. Annual subsistence charges pay for planned compliance work at a site with a permit.
The Environment Agency will charge for time and materials costs if they have to carry out unplanned compliance work in specific sets of circumstances. Time and materials charges for regulatory work needed after the suspension of a permit will apply from 1 April Time and materials charges for regulatory work needed as the result of an unplanned event for example a pollution incident will apply from 1 October The Environment Agency will charge time and materials costs for dealing with an unplanned event that could cause significant harm to human health or the environment.
The suspension could be due to either:. Charging for time and materials allows the Environment Agency to recover costs quickly for the additional regulatory effort resulting from:. If the Environment Agency needs to charge you for time and materials they will keep you informed of any costs incurred and how they are broken down. Where the Environment Agency can already recover costs for unplanned work they may continue to do so. For example, by applying section ZC of the Water Resources Act for water pollution incidents.
The Environment Agency will only ever charge an operator once for any costs they incur. If your permit has a condition that states you must send the Environment Agency information for them to assess or approve, you must pay a charge to cover the cost of this work. For example, you may need to send them a plan, report or assessment to approve.
This charge will cover the amount of time taken to assess your information and decide whether to approve it. The wording of the conditions in your permit will make it clear when you need to get approval or agreement from the Environment Agency.
This charge will not apply to pre-operational or improvement conditions in new waste incinerator or co-incinerator permits. Some subsistence charges are adjusted according to your compliance band. But this does not apply to permits for:. Your compliance band is worked out using the compliance rating score you have accumulated over the previous calendar year.
If your record deteriorates you will pay more the following year. If you have a poor compliance record you will pay more than somebody in band A, for example. For the first year of the new charging scheme, the Environment Agency has worked out compliance rating scores using the Opra scheme.
This section explains adjustments the Environment Agency will make to subsistence charges if a change takes place partway through a financial year. That is, after the payment due date for the charge has passed. If you have already paid the subsistence charge in full and a change puts your account into credit, the Environment Agency will refund any money due back to you. Here are some other examples of when pro rata adjustments would be made. In all of these cases, the Environment Agency would make a pro rata adjustment to the subsistence charge from the date on which the change takes place.
You must notify the Environment Agency if you are going to stop activities temporarily for a period of more than 12 months. The Environment Agency will only reduce the charge if they agree that you meet the criteria for temporary cessation.
For radioactive substances activities, for operations to stop you must have removed from site all:. Where operations have stopped for more than 12 months the Environment Agency needs to review activities before they can restart.
This is to make sure the site meets the same standards as other competitor operators. For example, to check the site meets the requirements of Best Available Techniques Reference guidance. The Environment Agency may add an improvement condition to your permit stating that you cannot restart activities until you have submitted the information they need to carry out this review.
You will need to pay a minor variation charge if this improvement condition is added to your permit. The Environment Agency will also charge time and materials for any approvals they need to provide under this permit condition. If you have a permit that covers more than one type of activity your subsistence charge will usually be the sum of the subsistence charge for each of the activities.
The subsistence charge tables list the subsistence charges for all activities. The descriptions of each activity aim to set out all the activities that are included within that description. If an activity is not included under a description, then it is likely that an additional charge will apply to it. If any of your activities are listed in table 2. Some charging rules have been carried forward from the previous water discharge charging scheme.
In particular where:. This charge applies where the activity is not a part A 1 , part A 2 or part B activity. In these instances the operator will pay the local authority activity annual subsistence charge in table 2. This charge will only apply if the activity is not already included in the activity description of the main installation.
For 2 very diverse process industry sectors, food and drink and pulp and paper, the activity descriptions may include a number of additional components. To find the correct subsistence charge first select the number of additional components on your site from the table in part 4 of the tables of charges. Then look up the correct charge in table 2.
You need to pay a subsistence charge for all flood risk activity permits. See the tables of charges. The subsistence charge applies for each year there is a compliance check. Normally there will be one compliance check. The Environment Agency may sometimes need to carry out several compliance checks, for example, where permit conditions apply over a period of time. If this is the case, the Environment Agency will only charge you once in each financial year for compliance checks.
They will invoice you for this charge when they carry out the first compliance check. Before you use the plant, you must submit a deployment form for approval by the Environment Agency. These are in table 2. This charge covers the costs of reviewing permits and monitoring compliance. Reviews will make sure you have systems in place to prevent incidents and manage your operations well. Each time you submit a deployment application form you must pay a charge.
See the tables of charges for these costs. This charge relates to operators who sort 1, tonnes or more a year of mixed dry household waste or material like household waste to produce:. You must sample, record and report the amounts you have processed to the Environment Agency on a quarterly basis. The Environment Agency will carry out inspections, assess your compliance and, if necessary, take enforcement action. The charge covers additional regulatory costs specific to the regulations and is in addition to the annual subsistence charge for the permit.
You may withdraw notifications at any time if you consider that your facility is no longer likely to qualify for the regulation and charge.
Where a notification is withdrawn, charges will terminate from the start of the reporting period immediately following the date of receipt of the withdrawal notice.
When you send an application to the Environment Agency you need to pay the application charge when you apply. For example this could be an application:. Tel: see call charges. If you wish to pay by credit or debit card let the Environment Agency know and they will contact you when they receive your application. Include an Environment Agency reference number or permit number with your payment, particularly if you are making an electronic payment. This will make sure your payment can be identified and matched to your application.
For these types of charges the Environment Agency will send an invoice to the person and contact address you provided. This will make sure your payment can be identified and matched to your invoice. If you have not paid the full application charge, the Environment Agency will ask you to pay the balance. They cannot determine the application and will not issue a new or revised permit if any part of an application charge is missing.
If you do not pay the subsistence charge when it is due, the Environment Agency may revoke or suspend your permit and take action to recover the debt. If the Environment Agency has varied your permit and you do not pay the variation charge, they will take action to recover the debt. If you have not paid the charges for a discretionary service requested by you, the Environment Agency may refuse to provide any more discretionary services until payment is received.
They may do this in cases where they think that the charge is significantly disproportionate when compared to the costs they have incurred or will incur.
If you wish to complain about your charges, or ask the Environment Agency to review a decision they have made about your charges, please see their complaints procedure.
Invoices for a permit variation made by the Environment Agency must be paid when the invoice is issued. Fixed and time and materials charges for work to determine an application must be paid when the invoice is issued. Invoices for subsistence charges are issued annually on 1 April and must be paid when you receive the invoice.
Or, in the first year the permit is granted, you will receive a pro rata invoice when your permit is issued. You must pay this when you receive the invoice. You must pay the deployment application charge when you send in the notification for each deployment.
If you have any queries about working out how to calculate your charges, please contact the Charges Team. Email: enquiries environment-agency. Telephone: see call charges. The Environment Agency welcomes views from their users, stakeholders and the public, including comments about the content and presentation of this scheme.
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Permit application charges 3. Vary a permit charges 4. Transfer a permit 5. Surrender a permit 6. Subsistence charges 7. How to pay for charges Print this page. General information about charges This section is about: the types of charges you need to pay whether the charges are fixed costs or charged on a time and materials basis who needs to pay for charges 1. These sections have more information: vary a permit transfer a permit surrender a permit 1.
For example: legal advice work by technical staff who do not time record for charging purposes accommodation IT support systems health and safety producing guidance financial services other support costs If you request a discretionary service that has a time and materials cost, for example enhanced pre-application advice, the Environment Agency will give you a written estimate.
This will include: a breakdown of the work they will carry out with costs when these costs will be charged approximately If they receive new information from you or others that means they need to revise their estimate, they will tell you.
Subsistence charges have to be paid by the holder of the permit. The Environment Agency does not recover the full cost of processing applications for: non-commercial flood-risk activities carried out to improve the environment flood risk activity work in the area of land around a house and carried out by or on behalf of the householder under permitted development rights sewage effluent discharges with a volume up to and including 5m 3 a day to surface water or groundwater from domestic households or organisations operating for charitable purposes You also do not pay an annual subsistence charge to discharge sewage effluent if both of these apply: the maximum daily volume of discharge authorised by the permit is 5 cubic metres or less the permit holder is a domestic householder, or an organisation or entity that operates for charitable purposes 1.
Permit application charges This section is about permit application charges and when you need to pay extra application charges.
You must pay your charge when you apply. For example if: the permit is of high public interest an extra technical assessment is needed, for example of an odour management plan 2. You must read the relevant Environment Agency guides for your activity before you apply: Waste: environmental permits A1 installations: environmental permits Discharges to surface water and groundwater: environmental permits Flood risk activities: environmental permits Radioactive substances regulation for non-nuclear sites Radioactive substances regulation for nuclear sites 2.
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