A round-up of the latest environmental enforcement, including a waste company fined for breaching fire safety conditions under its environmental permit.

A round-up of the latest environmental enforcement, including the prosecution of South West Water Limited over a drinking water contamination incident.

A round-up of the latest environmental enforcement, including the prosecution of people involved in a large-scale waste crime operation and a farmer fined after Fivehead River was polluted by silage.

A round-up of the latest environmental enforcement, including a skip-hire company and its director pleading guilty to multiple waste offences after operating an illegal waste site in Essex.

A round-up of the latest environmental enforcement, including a water company found guilty for illegally discharging sewage into a watercourse that feeds into the Broads Special Area of Conservation in Norfolk.

A round-up of the latest environmental enforcement, including a poultry keeper sentenced for falsifying salmonella test results during a regulatory audit.

A round-up of the latest environmental enforcement, such as environmental prosecutions and enforcement undertakings. This edition includes breaches in environmental legislation being addressed by an enforcement undertaking.

A round-up of the latest environmental enforcement, including a construction company fined after polluting a stream.

A round-up of the latest environmental enforcement, including prosecution of waste operator for running illegal waste site and causing river pollution.

A round-up of the latest environmental enforcement, including a man being prosecuted for running an illegal waste site and burning waste on the land.

A round-up of the latest environmental enforcement, including civil penalties issued to two farmers for unauthorized river engineering works in Scotland, and the prosecution of a man for operating an illegal waste site in Lincolnshire.

ARCHIVED: This Practice Note has been archived and is not maintained. Regulatory Enforcement and Sanctions Act 2008 (RESA 2008) enables regulators to be given powers to deal with offences using civil sanctions, including environmental enforcement undertakings, instead of commencing a criminal prosecution. The Environment Agency (EA) and Natural Resources Wales (NRW) have the power to impose enforcement undertakings in relation to a number of offences under the Environmental Permitting (England and Wales) Regulations 2016 (EPR 2016), SI 2016/1154. An enforcement undertaking is a written undertaking to take actions within a specified period: • to ensure that the offence does not continue or recur • to restore the position so far as possible to what it would have been had the offences not been committed • to benefit a third party (including, where appropriate, a money payment), or • to secure equivalent benefit or improvement to the environment, where it is not possible to restore the harm caused Those who breach environmental regulation can, where an enforcement undertaking is available for the particular offence,