Position Statements

Policies

• Bringbank Policy Revised April 2009(.PDF 186Kb)
• Management of Gypsum Wastes Policy Revised April 2009(.PDF 216Kb)
• Testing Regime for Soils and Wastes May 2010(.PDF 60Kb)
• Testing Regime for Receiving Soils and Sewage Sludge to be applied to those Soils, under a Paragraph 10A Exemption from Waste Management Licensing Nov 2011(.PDF 73Kb)

Regulatory Position Statements

• The Environmental Regulation of Wood(.PDF 159Kb)
• Guidance on the production of fully recovered asphalt road planings(.PDF 591Kb)
• NIEA facts: Fully recovered asphalt road planings (.PDF 486Kb)
• NIEA Position – Consumer Goods Deposited At Household Recycling Centres / Civic Amenity Sites (.PDF 16Kb)
• The Revised Waste Framework Directive Regulation of Excluded Wastes (.PDF 175Kb)
• Guidance on Low Risk Activities (.PDF 128Kb)
• Anaerobic Digestion of Agricultural Manure and Slurry (.PDF 80Kb)
• Regulation of Anaerobic Digestion of Waste April 2011(including flowchart) (.PDF 221Kb)
• Authorising the Storage and Treatment of Used Cooking Oil and the Production of Biodiesel (.PDF 51Kb)
• Information required by the NIEA specific to the Commissioning of an Anaerobic Digestion Plant (PDF 73Kb)
• Information required by the NIEA for an Operational Anaerobic Digestion Plant (PDF 73Kb)

Quality Protocols

• Waste Quality Protocols page
• NIEA Soil Guidance page

The Pulverised Fuel Ash / Furnace Bottom Ash (PFA/FBA) Protocol:

• Regulatory position statement describing how we will regulate the use of the Quality Protocol for PFA / FBA (.PDF 180Kb)

The Anaerobic Digestate (AD) Protocol:

• Regulatory Position statement describing how we will regulate the use of the Quality Protocol for anaerobic digestate (.PDF 147Kb)

The Compost Protocol:

• Regulatory Position statement describing how we will regulate the use of the Quality Protocol for compost (.PDF 134Kb)

The Processed Fuel Oil (PFO) Protocol:

• Regulatory Position statement describing how we will regulate the use of the Quality Protocol for processed fuel oil (.PDF 142Kb)