NetRegs is a website set up to help

small business Small businesses are types of corporations, partnerships, or sole proprietorships which have fewer employees and/or less annual revenue than a regular-sized business or corporation. Businesses are defined as "small" in terms of being able to ap ...

es in

Scotland Scotland (, ) is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. Covering the northern third of the island of Great Britain, mainland Scotland has a border with England to the southeast and is otherwise surrounded by the Atlantic Ocean to the ...

and

Northern Ireland Northern Ireland ( ga, Tuaisceart Éireann ; sco, label= Ulster-Scots, Norlin Airlann) is a part of the United Kingdom, situated in the north-east of the island of Ireland, that is variously described as a country, province or region. Nort ...

to become more environmentally aware. It has been developed by a partnership between the

Scottish Environment Protection Agency The Scottish Environment Protection Agency (SEPA; gd, Buidheann Dìon Àrainneachd na h-Alba) is Scotland's Environmental regulation, environmental regulator and national flood forecasting, flood warning and strategic flood risk management au ...

and the

Northern Ireland Environment Agency The Northern Ireland Environment Agency (NIEA) is an executive agency within the Department of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs (DAERA). It is responsible for conservation of Northern Ireland's environment and natural heritage. Origi ...

. NetRegs is a source of free environmental guidance for small and medium-sized enterprises based in Scotland and Northern Ireland and provides information and guidance on key environmental legislation as well as environmental practices for every type of business. Since 2006, it has also offered to provide updates by email. NetRegs also provides free e-learning tools, an environmental self assessment tool and hosts the Guidance for Pollution Prevention documents (GPPs), a replacement for the old PPGs).

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* Environmental organisations based in the United Kingdom {{UK-gov-stub