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Environment Agency prosecutions

England · environmental-enforcement · enforcement

Prosecutions brought by the Environment Agency under its regulatory powers that resulted in conviction, from January 2000 onwards.

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Requested. The publisher's own metadata states "no public access constraints" and licence "Open Government Licence". Prosecutions of individuals are anonymised by the publisher before release, which resolves the personal-data question at source.

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PublisherEnvironment Agency
Publication mandateEnvironment Agency enforcement and sanctions publication
LicenceOpen Government Licence — reuse permitted with attribution verified 2026-08-25
Access methodcsv
Fragmentationsingle dataset; Scotland, Wales and NI regulators publish separately
Update frequencyquarterly
Historyfrom 2000 onwards
Free structured versionyes — https://www.data.gov.uk/dataset/6f06910a-8411-4117-9905-6284f1997c33/environment-agency-prosecutions
Who else serves thisnone identified (listed as caution, not endorsement — an existing free or commercial service is often the most useful thing on this page)

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Legal screen

mandated publicationpass
terms permissive or silentpass
no login paywall captcha personal datapass
no specialist legal advice neededpass
verdictpass

Adjacent finding, recorded because it contradicts the assumption that a publisher is uniform: the Environment Agency's *enforcement undertakings* dataset carries the attribution statement "All rights reserved", not OGL. Licence is per dataset, not per publisher.

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Last checked 2026-08-25.