The Environment Agency welcomes the Code
From 6 April 2008, all regulators, including the Environment Agency, must have regard to the Regulators’ Compliance Code in setting their policies for the way that they carry out their regulatory duties.
The Code sets out standards for how we should work, based on the principles of better regulation, in seven particular areas of regulatory activity. These include:
• Allowing or encouraging economic progress
• Using risk assessment
• Providing advice and guidance
• Undertaking inspections
• Requesting information and sharing data
• Undertaking compliance and enforcement actions
• Being accountable.
The Code supports the Government’s better regulation agenda and is based on the recommendations in the Hampton Report. Its purpose is to promote efficient and effective approaches to regulatory inspection and enforcement which improve regulatory results without imposing unnecessary burdens on those we regulate.
To read more about how we should carry out our regulatory duties see:
