UK Waste and Installation Compliance Ratings with Subsistence Charge Impact, 2015-2024

Data from 2015 to 2024 records compliance ratings for regulated waste and installation facilities in the UK. The Environment Agency calculates ratings based on a points system for permit breaches, which then determines financial adjustments to operator subsistence charges. The dataset was previously part of the Opra scheme and is now provided under a new charging scheme.

Use Cases

• Assessing operator compliance risk based on recorded permit breaches.
• Modeling the financial impact of non-compliance on subsistence charges based on the described points-to-band system.
• Analyzing trends in regulatory enforcement over the 2015-2024 period.
• Comparing compliance performance across different waste operation and installation permits.

Strengths

• Defined temporal coverage from 2015 to 2024.
• Clear, standardized points system for classifying permit breaches into four categories.
• Explicit mapping of cumulative points to six compliance bands (A-F) with specific charge impacts.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Data may reflect temporal and regulatory bias inherent to the UK Environment Agency's scheme.

Provenance

Source

Environment Agency

Collection Method

Calculated by the Environment Agency based on recorded permit breaches using the Compliance Classification Scheme.

Time Range

2015-2024

Freshness

Last updated 2026-04-17 13:04:20.046319; freshness should be verified.

Geography

United Kingdom