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Registers definition

What does Registers mean? In legal practice, “Registers” refers to the statutory public registers kept by environmental regulators that record prescribed information such as environmental permits and licences, consents, waste carrier registrations, enforcement notices, convictions, monitoring data and certain site-specific determinations, made available for public inspection. The term is descriptive rather than a single defined concept; duties to establish and maintain particular registers arise under specific legislation and regulatory regimes (for example, the environmental permitting regime in England and Wales, pollution prevention and control regimes in Scotland and Northern Ireland, and EPA/Waste Management legislation in Ireland). Key features include: mandatory content set by statute, public...

Environmental public registers for due diligence and compliance: access, content and confidentiality across EPCs, flooding, reservoirs, contaminated land, permitting, waste, packaging, WEEE, batteries and marine licensing

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Practice notes

Numerous public Registers containing environmental information are required by statute to be created and maintained. These sources hold valuable detail about a business or its assets and provide a practical way to obtain environmental data. They can be used to, for example:

check the likelihood of a site flooding without holding a commercial stake in that site
view a property’s energy performance information
see the conditions of water or waste discharge permits, even when those permits are privately held
get details of approved producers or exporters of WEEE
access information on producer compliance schemes
locate data on packaging types and quantities handled, and waste recovery records

Energy performance certificates

The Energy Performance of Buildings (England and Wales) Regulations 2012 (the EPC Regulations), SI 2012/3118, require the Secretary of State to maintain one or more registers containing:

energy performance certificates (EPCs)
display energy certificates (DECs)
inspection reports
recommendation reports

The digital Energy Performance of Buildings Register was launched in September 2020 and holds searchable data on over 27 million energy assessments...

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