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About us

Find out more about our organisation.

We are an Executive Non-departmental Public Body responsible to the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs and an Assembly Sponsored Public Body responsible to the National Assembly for Wales.

Our principal aims are to protect and improve the environment, and to promote sustainable development. We play a central role in delivering the environmental priorities of central government and the Welsh Assembly Government through our functions and roles.

  • Creating a better place 2010 - 2015

    This is our strategy for the next five years. It sets out how we – working with others – will bring pace and ingenuity to the challenge of a changing environment.

  • How we work

    How we aim to make your community a better place, who to contact if you have an environmental problem, and how we work with others.

  • Our organisation

    Information on how our organisation is structured.

  • Our customer charter

    What standards have we set ourselves? What can you expect from us? And how can you get in touch with us?

  • Procurement in the Environment Agency

    Guidance on how to sell to the Environment Agency and Tools and Techniques for Environmental Procurement.

  • Your right to know

    Find out how and where information may be obtained from the Environment Agency; plus, details of our obligations under the Freedom of Information Act.

  • Our information charter

    Find out how we look after personal information.