Environmental Information Regulations

Environmental information regulations for organisations

Your responsibilities and obligations

If you are a public authority you have a legal obligation to provide information about the environment through an approved publication scheme and in response to requests. Find out what you need to do to comply with the regulations.

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Key questions

  • What is environmental information?
  • Do the Regulations apply to me?
  • How do I answer an information request?
  • What should I do if an individual complains about an information request?
  • How should I make information available in a publication scheme?

Guidance index

View a full list of our environmental information guidance.

ICO specialist guidance

We have published specialist guidance, including our detailed knowledge base, an internal resource which gives the ICO’s position on many of the issues we deal with, and sample questions we ask public authorities.

Useful items

FAQs

Read all our FAQs