Office of Environmental Enforcement

This Office of the Environmental Protection Agency implements and enforces environmental legislation. It also deals with members of the public who have exhausted all other avenues of complaint. Its main functions are to:

• Enforce the Integrated Pollution Control (IPC), Integrated Pollution Prevention and Control (IPPC) and waste licences that we issue
• Prosecute or assist in the prosecution of significant breaches of environmental protection legislation
• Monitor and report on how local authorities perform in their environmental protection functions, and help them to improve their performance