Legal operator and competence requirements: environmental permits
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Find out the legal, financial and professional requirements for operators and managers, including extra duties for waste activity operators.
Adapted edition
- Document type
- Reference Guide
- Format
- DOCX
- Pages
- 8
- Language
- English
- Version
- 1.0
- Updated
- 2026-09-16
- Category
- Safety & operations
- Licence
- Open Government Licence v3.0
Description
Find out the legal, financial and professional requirements for operators and managers, including extra duties for waste activity operators. Consult the original guidance for current legal and operational details.
Contents
- What a legal operator is
- What a legal entity is
- Examples of legal entities
- Joint operators of one activity
- Separate operators of one activity
- What a competent operator is
- Technical competence
- Environmental record
- Financial competence
- Financial provision
- Financial provisions for Category A or hazardous waste mining facilities
- Qualifications required by waste activity managers
- CIWM and WAMITAB scheme
- EU Skills scheme
- Deadline for meeting scheme requirements
- Record the operating hours of your waste facility
Source and licence
Environment Agency
AttributionEnvironment Agency, ‘Legal operator and competence requirements: environmental permits’ (updated 11 June 2026), reused under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
ChangesNeutral text-only adaptation from the official GOV.UK Content API body: headings, paragraphs, ordered and unordered list items and clickable source-link destinations in an appendix preserved. Images, logos, page design, accessible-format request widgets and linked attachments excluded; normalised whitespace, invisible format marks and typography.
Version history
- v1.016/09/2026