Sepa in a sentence

Introduced in November 2017, the intra-European payments scheme, also known as SEPA Instant, was built on the existing SEPA architecture with the promise of ultra-fast euro payments across the 36 countries within the Single European Payment Area (SEPA).

A SEPA spokesperson said: “In July 2023, SEPA found the site’s dust arrestment system was not operating effectively and required an investigation report and action plan from the operator to address the issue.

The letter, which was released by Sepa under freedom of information law, said that companies had “serious concerns around the scope of the information notices and their compatibility with Sepa’s legal obligations”.

Since January 2008, all countries must support SEPA credit transfer, and SEPA direct debit must be supported since November 2009.

However, no orders were made to clear the site and SEPA, Fife Council and the landowners had been unable to reach a solution until now.

Industry regulator Sepa wants to halt the long-term decline of the Atlantic wild salmon population by reducing sea lice outbreaks from fish farms.

SEPA believes it could impact on transport routes, although peak river levels in southern Scotland are expected to be well below those experienced last week.

Sepa officers will follow up on the report tomorrow to make sure appropriate action has been taken.

SEPA said is continuing to work with the Spey Fishery Board and the Fish Inspectorate of Marine Scotland - the lead body responsible for fish mortalities - regarding the incident.

Sepa said the 'highest concern' areas are the North Esk and South Esk river.

SEPA say an agreement has been reached which will see an unsightly mess removed from land at Lathalmond.

SEPA will continue to liaise with Scottish Water until the issue is fully resolved.

The project is currently working with SEPA to gain its pollution prevention and control (PPC) permit.

The report also drew attention to the issues caused by the summer’s heatwaves and reduced rainfall, which led to SEPA curtailing licensed water abstraction in the catchment for the first time.

The response was this would be addressed by the Developer liaising with the Scottish Environmental Protection Agency (SEPA) and possibly Scottish Water environmental teams as part of their overall drainage/site design.

The Scottish Environmental Protection Agency (Sepa) has issued the first water scarcity report of 2023 showing parts of central, western and northern have reached the early warning level for water scarcity.

While the Scottish Environment Protection Agency (SEPA) currently has no “severe flood warnings in place”, flooding is still expected in some areas.

Calum McGregor, of SEPA’s Environmental Crime Team, said: “Illegally burning waste is unacceptable, and often done to avoid the charges for taking wastes to permitted waste sites for recovery or disposal.

He also advised residents to check flood alerts on the Scottish Environment Protection Agency (Sepa) website.

Lower Largo was only given bathing water status in 2022 and water quality there has been ranked as “poor” overall by Sepa in the last two years.