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Charge details

A summary of our current regulatory schemes and links to the legal scheme documents for full details.

Environmental Permitting (EP) charges

The Environmental Permitting (EP) Charging Scheme 2011/12 reflects our duties and charging powers set out in the Environmental Permitting Regulations which came into effect in April 2010. Although the following regimes are covered by one charging scheme we have introduced separate links to allow easy access to additional documents.

For a full breakdown of charges for different types of permit application please refer to the "application charge" section on the EP "making an application" page:

Other charging schemes

Other charges

  • Charging for information
    Find out more about the information we provide for free and what we charge for.
  • Fisheries charges
    Rod licence duties, temporary and general fisheries licence duties, and lock and weir fishing permits.
  • Flood defence levies
    The charges and levies we raise to fund our flood defence works. This includes Internal Drainage Board precepts and General Drainage Charges.
  • Navigation charges
    This section identifies the waters where we are responsible and thus reclaim the costs incurred through the fees for the registration of vessels and charging for non-vessel related items.
  • Pollution incident and cost recovery (PICR)
    We have to recover the costs of pollution incidents.

Please note: All our charges for environmental permits and licences are outside the scope of VAT.