Designed to keep your business compliant.
A compliance package is a retained service to help operators of permitted waste sites manage compliance with their Environmental Permits.
What is a Compliance Package?
A compliance package is a retained service to help operators of permitted waste sites manage compliance with their Environmental Permits. An Environmental Permit has a fixed set of rules that a site is required to comply with. This can range from operating inline with a written management system that identifies and minimises risks of pollution, complying with approved competence schemes, implementing fire prevention measures, managing fugitive emissions plans, monitoring for point source emissions, filing reports and notifications to the regulator, etc. Our compliance packages are designed to help operators remain compliant with their permit to satisfy Environment Agency requirements.
How does the compliance package work?
The compliance package is the ultimate piece of mind that all of your compliance related matters are identified and resolved as an on-going service. The Permitting Company has the resource to be instantly accessible to deal with any issues the site comes across.
This could range from unannounced Environment Agency visits, incidents on site, fast advice and guidance based on an emergency, or just a quick bit of support to get a situation resolved. The compliance package offers access to our team of industry experts to help and protect your business. Once the compliance package is in place, we will carry out site audit visits to establish if there is a baseline level of compliance.
We will then identify areas where the site is underperforming and then get to work to resolve the issue. Most consultancies will only point out the non-compliances and give It to you as a set of actions to take to bring the site back into compliance.
We work differently to this, we won’t only identify non-compliances, we will fix the non-compliances ourselves if its within our power to do so.
What type of operator or activity would benefit from a compliance package?
Our compliance packages are built around a broad range of operations and permits. The permitting company team consists of experts who have experience in dealing with standard rules permits, bespoke permits, and installations. Within these types of permits, we are experienced across the following activities:
In-Vessel-Composting
- ABP Hygiene & Biosecurity
- Product analysis
- Feedstock additive consultation
- Leachate management
- Batch Management
- Process Monitoring Records
Open Windrow Composting
- Windrow management
- Bioaerosol and odour monitoring
- Oversize/reject management
- Batch Monitoring
PAS 100 Compliance
- Applications to become PAS 100 Certified
- HACCP hazard analysis
- Sampling plans
- Batch non-conformity
- Process monitoring records
- Pas100 audit preparation
WEEE ATFs & AATF’s
- Reporting of evidence notes
- POP’s analysis, WM3 classifications
- End of Waste Criteria assessments
- Annual review of compliance schemes
ABTO Compliance
- ABTO Applications & Renewals
- Auditing Downstream sites
- ABTO Reporting
- Compliance with ABTO license
- Recycling and Recovery Rates
- Management of Battery Compliance Schemes
ELV ATF’s
- DEFRA Annual Reporting
- EA Quarterly Reporting
- Depollution Procedures
- Compliance with Scrap Metal Dealer Act
- Certificates of Destruction
- Export of Waste
- Consent to Discharge Applications
Scrap Yards
- Manage the export/import of scrap metals
- Provide RPS to comply with IIR17 regulation (XRF)
- Scrap Metal Dealer Act compliance
- Undertake a comprehensive WM3 waste assessment across waste streams.
HealthCare Facilities
- EA Waste Returns
- Packaging, labelling and handling
- Storage and management of Clinical Waste
- Digital Waste Tracking Systems
- Waste Classification
Asbestos Transfer Stations
- Waste Acceptance Protocols
- Asbestos Consulting
- Waste Classifications
- Handling and Packaging of Asbestos Waste
- Consignee and Producer Returns
Material Recovery Facilities
- Waste Sampling and Reporting
- Operator Returns
- Waste Classification and Coding
- Export of Waste
- Digital Waste Tracking Systems
- RDF & SRF Consultation
Anaerobic digestion - PAS 110
- Feedstock homogenisation/stability
- Process control monitoring
- Sampling and analysis protocol and implantation
- Digestate management and deployment
Mobile Plant Permits & Deployments
- Agricultural benefit statements
- Consultation on deployments
- (LCRA) Land contamination risk assessments
- Environmental Risk Assessment
Industrial, Commercial and Household Transfer Stations
- Quarterly Returns
- Digital Waste Tracking Systems
- WM3 Waste Classification
- Waste Brokering
- Sampling Plans
Household Waste & Recycling Centres
- Waste Acceptance Protocols
- Waste Assessment and Classification
- End-of-Waste Protocols
- Operator Returns
ABE Compliance
- ABE Reporting
- ABE Applications and Renewals
- Downstream Auditing
- Management of Battery Compliance Schemes
- Management of TFS’s
As well as the above for activity specific operations and compliance schemes, we also offer the below services as part of our compliance packages
Materials Recovery Facilitys (MRFs)
Support in understanding the legal framework surrounding waste and environmental permitting.
Support with completion of legally reportable documents as required by the permit
Carrying out pre-operational inspections to ensure the site can comply with the permit
Leading Environment Agency visits
Carrying out audit visits to ensure the site is compliance with permit and management systems
Support in managing environmental incidents and schedule 5 notifications
Assistance with training and competence schemes for employees
Providing support for regulator-initiated variations.
Review and update key management system documents each year to ensure permit conditions are being met
Liaising with the Environment Agency in the approval of changes to management system documents.
Inspection of key areas to ensure pollution prevention systems are being managed
Managing key compliance documents to ensure legibility during audit visits from the regulator
Completion of operator returns and consignee returns
Duty of care checks to ensure waste is being sent to sites with the correct authorisations
WM3 waste classifications
Provide assistance implementing a regulator-ready digital waste tracking system.
Guidance on achieving EoW (end of waste)
Compliance tracker to check for early signs of non-compliance
What are the main benefits?
Running a permitted waste operation and complying with all the regulations can be a complicated process which is always on-going due to the fact waste sites are under regular audit from the Environment Agency. We will become an extension of your company to manage compliance with your permit, and to be the main point of contact with the regulator. This means you can focus your efforts on where it counts, running a profitable business
What are the core requirements of operating a regulated facility?
The type of permit you have and the operations you are undertaking will dictate how much there is to comply with.
For example, if you are operating an End-of-Life Vehicle ATF permit to break category b vehicles, the types of things that will need to be complied with are:
DEFRA Annual Reporting
You will be require to track each vehicle you depolluted/dismantle, and record the recycling and recovery rate achieved. There is a 95% target to be met which you must demonstrate via the submission of a reporting table each year.
Scrap Metal Dealer Act
You are required to comply with the Scrap Metal Dealers Act when accepting scrap into the site. There are various records you must retain for every transaction.
Certificate of Destruction
You are required to issue a certificate of destruction for every ELV that has been securely destroyed.
Operator Returns
You are required to track every waste movement in and out of the site and report to the Environment Agency every quarter. This includes all the separately recovered fraction from the dismantling and depollution process. You must show what the recovery or disposal code is for each waste type, along with its physical form, European Waste Code, Weight, and physical form.
Consignee Returns
For hazardous waste that has been received onto site you are required to produce and consignee and producer returns. This details each consignment received at the site, and reports on the EWC code, Hazardous Property Code, Consignment Note Code, R&D code, and place of production.
Waste Transfer Notes
You are required to produce and receive waste transfer notes for all non-hazardous waste types received and dispatched from the site. The Waste Transfer Note must be completed to the required standard for it be legally valid in compliance with The Waste Regulations 2011.
Consignment Notes
You are required to produce and receive consignment notes for all hazardous waste types received and dispatched from the site. Consignment notes must be completed to the required standard for it be legally valid in compliance with The Hazardous Waste Regulations 2005.
Depollution Process
Depolluting an End-of-Life Vehicle must be carried out to at least the minimum standards as set out in the End-of-Life Vehicle Regulations. Failure to do so will result in breaches of your Environment Permit.
Hazardous Waste Storage
Storing hazardous waste and components must have the necessary infrastructure in place and stored in accordance with written management systems to comply with the Hazardous Waste Regulations 2005.
Site Inspections/Diary
Permits require a site diary is to be maintained to record operational activities, monitoring undertaken, maintenance that’s been carried out, environmental incidents and non-compliances, and general activities carried out at the site. It should also log the hours of your technically competent manager.
Complying with specific details within your written management systems
Operating in line with a written management systems is required under the permit to protect receptors from your operations. The Environment Agency will assess the site against this during audit visits
Digital Waste Tracking
Digital Waste Tracking Systems – As of October 2026, all waste operators in the UK are required to implement a digital waste tracking system that complies with the requirements as set out by DEFRA, this will provide the Environment Agency with live tracking data as waste movements take place.
What exactly will the Permitting Company do?
Essential Compliance
From £125.00 Per Month
- Compliance Health check
- Responding to Environment Agency compliance assessment reports
- Providing Advice and Guidance to the operator on permit compliance
- Regular updates on activity specific regulatory changes
- Core documentation templates
- Remote support and assistance
- Advice on legal notifications and reporting
Enhanced Compliance Package
From £400.00 Per Month
- Everything listed in the ‘Essential Compliance’ package
- 6 monthly compliance visit
- Post audit written compliance reports
- Completion of consignee and operator returns
- Completion of other legally reportable documents for permit compliance
- Review of written management systems
- Staff training schemes
- Main point of contact for the Environment Agency
- Pollution incident advice and reporting
Total Assurance
Priced on site requirements
- Everything listed in the ‘Enhanced Compliance’ package
- Bespoke package tailored to the operation
- 3 monthly compliance visit
- Post audit written compliance reports
- Pollution and complaint investigations
- Leading scheduled Environment Agency visits
- Environmental Permit variations
- Development, implementation and Review of written management systems
- Assistance with ISO audits
- Assistance with export and import of waste
- Implementation of digital waste tracking
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Why work with us?
At The Permitting Company we are more that just consultants – we’re your partners in achieving compliant successful waste operations. Here is why our clients chose us:
Regulator insight
Specialist in the sector
Fast turnaround
Stay ahead of compliance with the Permitting Company.
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The Permitting Company are one of the most competitively priced permitting consultancies in United Kingdom. Because every site and application is unique, there are no standard prices when it comes to applications for Environmental Permits.