Public registers

The EPA is required by law to maintain several public registers. You can access these registers online and search for information about specific companies and specific circumstances or events, such as environmental protection measures and regulatory actions.

POEO public register

The Protection of the Environment Operations Act (POEO) public register contains information about environment protection licences and other regulatory information required under the Protection of the Environment Operations Act 1997 (POEO Act)

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Licences, applications & notices


  • To find information about environment protection licences, licence applications, notices issued under the POEO Act, audits and pollution studies and reduction programs
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Convictions and civil proceedings


  • To find information about convictions and results of civil proceedings under the POEO Act
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Penalty notices


  • To find information about Penalty notices issued under the POEO Act

Contaminated land

Dangerous goods

Hunter River Salinity Trading Scheme

Native forestry

Pesticides licences

Plastic Reduction and Circular Economy Act public register

The Plastic Reduction and Circular Economy Act 2021 (PRCE Act) public register contains information about:

  • exemptions granted by the EPA from the provisions of the PRCE Act
  • convictions for prosecutions initiated by the EPA under the PRCE Act
  • compliance notices issued or revoked by the EPA under the PRCE Act or the regulations
  • penalty notices issued under the PRCE Act or the regulations
  • the outcome of civil proceedings initiated by the EPA under the PRCE Act.

Read more about exemptions granted under the PRCE Act.

Read more about our approach to compliance.

Radiation

Privacy Act exemptions for public registers maintained by the EPA

Public registers are defined in the Privacy and Personal Information Protection Act 1998 as registers containing personal information that are required by law to be made publicly available or open to public inspection. Examples include the register of births, deaths and marriages, land titles register, register of drivers' licences and electoral roll.

Public registers maintained by the EPA include the following public registers which are listed in Schedule 2: Privacy Code of Practice (General) Order 2003. For these registers, the public register provisions set out in Part 6 of the Privacy and Personal Information Protection Act 1998 are modified as follows:

  1. The record maintained under section 58 of the Contaminated Land Management Act 1997, however, this exception does not extend to the name of an individual who is the occupier, owner or polluter of a contaminated site or the address of such an individual if the individual does not reside at a contaminated site.
  2. The registers listed in regulation 15.1 of the Road Transport Reform (Dangerous Goods) Regulations 1997 of the Commonwealth that apply in New South Wales as the Road Transport Reform (Dangerous Goods) (New South Wales) Regulations under the Road and Rail Transport (Dangerous Goods) Act 1997, however, this exception does not extend to information relating to the medical condition or the driving history of an individual.
  3. The Credit Register for the tradeable emission scheme known as the Hunter River Salinity Trading Scheme, made publicly available through the internet, comprising the name and contact details of a member of the Scheme or an employee or agent of that member and the member's business facilities, credit holdings and trading history.
  4. The information made publicly available through the internet concerning the Waste Reduction Grants Program paid from the Waste Fund set up under section 19 (repealed) of the Waste Avoidance and Resource Recovery Act 2001 comprising the name and contact details of the person awarded the grant, or an employee or agent of that person, the amount of the grant, the grant number and the details of the project for which the grant was given.
  5. The public register kept under Part 9.5 of the Protection of the Environment Operations Act 1997.

Any person whose personal and privacy information is recorded in an EPA public register has the right to request their personal details be suppressed. The Act provides for this to protect people whose position or occupation requires a high level of personal security or people who have a well-founded fear of violence or harm, for example, victims of domestic violence, police informants, judges, or senior police officers.