The EPA visits industrial and waste licensed facilities to assess compliance and overall environmental performance. The visits can involve
We issue a report to the licensee for each inspection. Site inspection reports are available in the View Enforcement Documents tab of the Licence Details Page for each licence.
The Industrial Emissions Directive (IED) sets out a minimum frequency for inspecting facilities. The period between two site inspections to a licensed site must be based on an assessment of the environmental risks of the site and its activities. Our interval between inspections must not exceed one year for high-risk sites and three years for low-risk sites.
1434 inspections were carried out at 602 licensed sites.
87% of these inspections were unannounced.
Summary information for our site inspections for 2022 are provided below.
