{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/environmental-permitting-england-and-wales-regulations-2016/schedule-9/paragraph-1",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/environmental-permitting-england-and-wales-regulations-2016/schedule-9/paragraph-1.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2016/1154",
  "legislation_title": "The Environmental Permitting (England and Wales) Regulations 2016",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/environmental-permitting-england-and-wales-regulations-2016",
  "path": "schedule/9/paragraph/1",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "1",
  "heading": "Written management system conditions",
  "text": "(1) An environmental permit which meets each of the following criteria is subject to conditions A and B—\n(a) the permit was granted before 6th April 2008;\n(b) the permit does not authorise a waste operation carried on at an installation or by means of a Part B mobile plant; and\n(c) the permit does not, immediately before 7th April 2019, contain a condition referring to a management system recorded in writing relating to risks relating to pollution.\n(2) Condition A is that the operator must manage and operate the waste operation in accordance with a system (a “written management system”), described in a document or documents, which identifies and minimises the risks of pollution arising from the waste operation, including (but not limited to) those—\n(a) arising from operations (including maintenance);\n(b) arising from an accident or other incident;\n(c) arising from a failure to comply with or from a contravention of the environmental permit in question;\n(d) identified following a complaint; or\n(e) arising from the closure of the operation.\n(3) Condition B is that the operator must—\n(a) from time to time, review the written management system and keep it up to date; and\n(b) keep a written record of—\n(i) activities carried out in accordance with the written management system; and\n(ii) any review or update under paragraph (a).\n(4) If the regulator varies an environmental permit which meets the criteria in paragraph (1) so as to include a condition referring to a management system recorded in writing relating to risks relating to pollution, this paragraph ceases to apply to that environmental permit.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Sch. 9 Pt. 3 inserted (7.4.2019) by The Environmental Protection (Miscellaneous Amendments) (England and Wales) Regulations 2018 (S.I. 2018/1227), regs. 2(2), 4(5)"
    }
  ],
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    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2016/1154/schedule/9/paragraph/1",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-11-05T03:41:31.926820+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}