details
- Name
- Scottish Environment Protection Agency (SEPA)
- Native name
- Scottish Environment Protection Agency
- Address
- Strathallan House, Castle Business Park
- Zipcode
- FK9 4TZ
- City
- Stirling
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Phone
- +441786 457700
- Centre Website
- https://www.sepa.org.uk/
organisation profile
There are many public bodies in Scotland responsible for protecting and improving our environment. The overall framework for environmental legislation and policy in Scotland is provided by the Scottish Government. As a non-departmental public body of the Scottish Government, SEPA's role is to make sure that the environment and human health are protected, to ensure that Scotland's natural resources and services are used as sustainably as possible and contribute to sustainable economic growth.
With around 1300 people based across Scotland, from the Highlands and Islands to the Borders, we regulate and advise on a wide range of environmental activities.
The Scottish Environment Protection Agency (SEPA) is Scotland's principal environmental regulator, protecting and improving Scotland's environment.SEPA is responsible for regulating the following activities:
- discharges of wastes to water;
- emissions to air;
- removal (abstraction) of water from surface water and ground water;
- waste sites (including landfill sites, recycling centres, waste transfer stations and waste contractors), the movement of waste and illegal waste disposal;
- river engineering;
- diffuse pollution;
- impoundment;
- noise at sites with a Pollution Prevention and Control (PPC) permit;
- offshore oil and gas industry (radioactivity only);
- Control of Major Accident Hazards (COMAH);
- European Union Greenhouse Gas EmissionTrading Scheme (EU-ETS);
- use of radioactive material, storage of radioactive waste (except at nuclear licensed sites), and disposal of radioactive waste
edmo metadata
- EDMO record id
- 5126
- Collating centre
- British Oceanographic Data Centre (BODC)
- Latest update
- 16 August 2019 5:07:57 PM