# The Environmental Permitting (England and Wales) Regulations 2016, Paragraph 1: Written management system conditions


(1) An environmental permit which meets each of the following criteria is subject to conditions A and B—
(a) the permit was granted before 6th April 2008;
(b) the permit does not authorise a waste operation carried on at an installation or by means of a Part B mobile plant; and
(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.
(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—
(a) arising from operations (including maintenance);
(b) arising from an accident or other incident;
(c) arising from a failure to comply with or from a contravention of the environmental permit in question;
(d) identified following a complaint; or
(e) arising from the closure of the operation.
(3) Condition B is that the operator must—
(a) from time to time, review the written management system and keep it up to date; and
(b) keep a written record of—
(i) activities carried out in accordance with the written management system; and
(ii) any review or update under paragraph (a).
(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.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2016/1154/schedule/9/paragraph/1 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/environmental-permitting-england-and-wales-regulations-2016/schedule-9/paragraph-1
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