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

Closes 30 Jun 2025

Annex 4: Environmental events

This annex sets out the definition of environmental harm.

It also provides examples of Category 1, 2, 3 and 4 environmental events together with an overview of likely impacts associated with an event of that category:

  1. Impacts to all receptors.
  2. Impacts to air.
  3. Impacts to surface water.
  4. Impacts to groundwater.
  5. Impacts to land.