The Scottish Environment Protection Agency (SEPA) is consulting on its plan to introduce a new compliance assessment scheme. Your responses to this consultation will inform the development of the final scheme, which is proposed to be phased in from 1st January 2009. The scheme will to be used to assess compliance with:

• Registrations and authorisations issued under the Radioactive Substances Act 1993 (RSA)
• Waste management licences issued under the Environmental Protection Act 1990 (EPA)
• Permits issued under the Pollution Prevention and Control (Scotland) Regulations 2000 (PPC)
• Licences issued under the Water Environment (Controlled Activities) (Scotland) Regulations 2005 (CAR)

The new scheme will gradually replace the existing Operator Performance Assessments (OPA) which are currently undertaken in Pollution Prevention and Control (PPC), waste management activities licensed under the Environmental Protection Act 1990 (EPA) and Radioactive Substances Act (RSA). The new scheme aims to provide a simple consistent framework and approach across various regulatory regimes, which will lead to objective and transparent compliance assessment results.

Comments on this consultation should be received by 3 October 2008

The consultation document can be accessed from:

http://www.sepa.org.uk/pdf/consultation/current/compliance/scheme.pdf

Further information is available from:

http://www.sepa.org.uk/consultation/current/compliance/index.htm

Source: http://www.sepa.org.uk/  (accessed 28/07/2008)

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