Environmental Performance Assessment Scheme (EPAS) - a fair way to report performance​ 

Closes 30 Jun 2025

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Annex 3: Major non-compliance criteria

There are nine documents that set out the major non-compliance criteria by regime:

  1. Marine and freshwater pen fish farms, CAR.
  2. Water resources: abstractions and impoundments of water, including the installation and operation of boreholes, CAR.
  3. Engineering, CAR.
  4. Point source discharges (excluding sewage), CAR.
  5. Waste Water Treatment Works (public and private), CAR..
  6. Sewer Network Licences, CAR.
  7. Industrial activities, PPC.
  8. Waste, WML
  9. Radioactive substances, EASR

For each activity, the major non-compliance criteria are grouped into the following key areas:

  1. Major impact of the authorised activity.
  2. Scope of site.
  3. Understanding of authorised activities.
  4. Overall management of authorised activities.
  5. Wider legal environmental requirements and financial non-compliance.

Following this consultation, these tables will be published on our website and we will start using them to verify compliance. They will be subject to review and update.