Which EPA licence does your site need, and how do you get it?

Only if your activity, at its scale, falls under a licensing regime. Industrial installations under the Industrial Emissions regime, First Schedule activities under IPC, and specified waste activities need an EPA licence; some waste activities need only a council permit or a registration, and some are exempt. Verdé checks your activity and capacity against the schedules before anything is drafted.

No. Planning permission and environmental licensing are separate processes, and a licensable activity needs both. Planning documents form part of the information the EPA considers, so the two run best side by side. Verdé lines up the planning evidence and the licence application together, so the conditions of one do not contradict the other.

It depends on the route, how complete the application is when it is lodged, and whether anyone objects. Further-information requests, the proposed determination, the objection period and any oral hearing each add time. A complete application at lodgement is the surest way to keep it short, and the readiness checklist above shows what is still missing.

A waste licence is issued by the EPA for specified waste disposal and recovery activities. A waste facility permit is usually issued by the local authority for activities under the permit regime, and a certificate of registration covers the registration regime. Some activities are exempt. The EPA lists all four outcomes, and Verdé checks which applies first.

The EPA Act 1992, as amended, lists the licensable activities in its First Schedule, and the EPA's IPC guidance cites the IPC Licensing Regulations 2013 (S.I. 283 of 2013), amended by S.I. 189 of 2020. Industrial Emissions licensing has its own regime under the Industrial Emissions Directive. Verdé confirms which regime applies before any notice goes out.

Yes. When the EPA issues a proposed determination, the applicant and any other person may object under Section 87(5) of the EPA Act 1992, giving their grounds, and can ask for an oral hearing (EPA notice). The EPA considers objections before its final decision. Regulator liaison, part of Verdé's licensing service, continues through this stage.

Verdé does, among others. An Annual Environmental Report, or AER, is the yearly account of a licensed site's environmental performance that its licence and the EPA's guidance require, and it draws on the monitoring the licence sets. Verdé prepares AERs and can carry out the monitoring that feeds them, so the data and the report come from one team.

BAT means Best Available Techniques. A BAT assessment compares the techniques your installation uses with the techniques and requirements the Industrial Emissions regime expects, and shows where the site meets them and what it will change. Verdé prepares BAT assessments for IE applications and licence reviews, alongside the emissions studies that support them.

Yes. Any business sending trade effluent into a public sewer needs a trade effluent licence from Uisce Éireann, unless an EPA licence already regulates that discharge. The application fee is a one-off €380 (Uisce Éireann). Verdé prepares trade effluent discharge licence applications alongside EPA applications, so both sets of conditions line up.

Not automatically. A material change can need a licence review, which the licensee applies to the EPA for, and the review goes through its own proposed determination before a revised licence issues. Tell Verdé what is changing and the team checks whether a review, a new authorisation or no change at all applies.