How EA assurance scheme can slash permit costs

Farms with units of this size legally require the New Bespoke Intensive Farming Installation (Part B3.5) environmental permit. Because application and inspection charges are high, the EA launched the scheme as a financial incentive to encourage high levels of compliance. The farm must not: * Have an...

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Published in:Farmers Weekly 2021-03, Vol.174 (26), p.62-62
Main Author: Noble, Natalie
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Agricultural economics
Ammonia
Classification schemes
Compliance
Enforcement
Environmental impact
Expulsion
Farms
Inspection
Inspections
Intensive farming
Poultry
Public concern
Public interest
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Summary:Farms with units of this size legally require the New Bespoke Intensive Farming Installation (Part B3.5) environmental permit. Because application and inspection charges are high, the EA launched the scheme as a financial incentive to encourage high levels of compliance. The farm must not: * Have an improvement condition relating to ammonia emissions * Be subject to outstanding enforcement action by the FLA * Be operated by someone who has, in relation to that farm, received an EA conviction in the previous three years, or have accepted a formal caution in the previous two years * Have more than 10 Compliance Classification Scheme points in the past calendar year * Have any unresolved amenity issues or be a site of high public interest * Be in arrears for Environmental Permitting Regulations (EPR) charges. Scheme expulsion Reasons for scheme expulsion include: * Non-compliance with EA notices, including enforcement * Prosecution by the EA or acceptance of a formal breach caution * Gross failure of permit condition 1.1 * Farm is transferred to another ojierator * Doesn't have a CB visit when it's due, fails to co-ojx'rate with the CB to arrange visits or provide access to relevant areas and records, or does not pay for a visit * Improvements are not made to rectify non-compliance within agreed timescales or refusal to agree reasonable timescales * Not paying EPR charges * Becomes a site of high public interest.
ISSN:0014-8474
2059-3422