Guidelines for Environmental Risk Assessment and Management
[This document refers, in a number of instances, to the then Department of the Environment, Transport and the Regions (DETR). The text of this document has not been updated since the transfer of environmental protection functions to Defra.]
Annex III
Sources of further information
Government departments, agencies and committees
Advisory Committee on Hazardous Substances
Chemicals and Biotechnology Division
Department of the Environment, Transport and the Regions
Ashdown House
123 Victoria Street
LONDON SW1E 6DE
Tel: 020 7944 3000
Advisory Committee on Releases to the Environment
Chemicals and Biotechnology Division
Department of the Environment, Transport and the Regions
Ashdown House
123 Victoria Street
LONDON SW1E 6DE
Tel: 020 7944 3000
www.defra.gov.uk/environment/acre/index.htm
Central Science Laboratory
Sand Hutton
YORK YO41 1LZ
Tel: 01904 462000
Fax: 01904 462111
www.csl.gov.uk
Centre for Environment, Fisheries and Aquaculture Science
Pakefield Road
Lowestoft
Suffolk NR33 0HT
Tel: 01502 562244
Fax: 01502 513865
www.cefas.co.uk
Department of the Environment - Northern Ireland
Clarence Court
10-18 Adelaide Street
BELFAST BT1 2GB
Tel: 028 9054 0540
www.nics.gov.uk/env.htm
Department of the Environment, Transport and the Regions
Environmental Protection Group
Ashdown House
123 Victoria Street
LONDON SW1E 6DE
Tel: 020 7944 3000
www.dtlr.gov.uk
Department of Health
Richmond House
79 Whitehall
LONDON SW1A 2NL
Tel: 020 7210 4850
www.doh.gov.uk/
Environment Agency
National Centre for Risk Analysis and Options Appraisal
Steel House
11 Tothill Street
LONDON SW1H 9NF
Tel: 020 7664 6811
Fax: 020 7664 6911
www.environment-agency.gov.uk
Health and Safety Executive
Research Strategy Unit
PO Box 1064
SHEFFIELD S3 7YB
Tel: 0114 289 2365
Fax: 0114 289 2400
www.hse.gov.uk/hsehome.htm
Health and Safety Executive
Risk Assessment Policy Unit
Rose Court
2 Southwark Bridge
LONDON SE1 9HS
Tel: 020 7717 6403
Fax: 020 7717 6955
www.hse.gov.uk/hsehome.htm
HM Treasury
Treasury Chambers
Parliament Street
LONDON SW1P 3AG
Tel: 020 7270 4558
Fax: 020 7270 5244
www.hm-treasury.gov.uk
Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food
3-8 Whitehall Place
LONDON SW1A 2HH
Tel: 0645 335577
Fax: 020 7270 8419
www.defra.gov.uk
The National Assembly for Wales
Cardiff Bay
CARDIFF CF99 1NA
Tel: 029 2089 8200
www.wales.org.uk/index_e.html
Pesticides Safety Directorate (PSD)
Mallard House
King's Pool
3 Peasholme Green
YORK YO1 2PX
Tel: 01904 455775
Fax: 01904 455733
www.defra.gov.uk/aboutmaf/agency/psd/psdhome.htm
Scottish Environment Protection Agency (SEPA)
Erskine Court
Castle Business Park
STIRLING FK9 4TR
Tel: 01786 457700
Fax: 01786 446885
www.sepa.org.uk
Scottish Executive
Victoria Quay
EDINBURGH EH6 6QQ
Tel: 0131 556 8400
www.scotland.gov.uk
Non-departmental public bodies
British Geological Survey
Kingsley Dunham Centre
Keyworth
NOTTINGHAM NG12 5GG
Tel: 0115 936 3100
Fax: 0115 936 3200
www.bgs.ac.uk
Centre for Ecology and Hydrology
CEH-Directorate
Monks Wood
ABBOTS RIPTON
Cambridgeshire PE28 2LS
Tel: 01487 772400
Fax: 01487 773590
www.ceh-nerc.ac.uk
Countryside Agency
John Dower House
Crescent Place
CHELTENHAM
Gloucestershire GL50 3RA
Tel: 01242 521381
Fax: 01242 584270
www.countryside.gov.uk
Countryside Council for Wales
Plas Penrhos
Ffordd Penrhos
Bangor
Gwynedd LL57 2LQ
Tel: 01248 385500
Fax: 01248 355782
www.ccw.gov.uk
English Nature
Northminster House
PETERBOROUGH
Cambridgeshire PE1 1UA
Tel: 01733 455000
Fax: 01733 568834
www.english-nature.org.uk
Forestry Commission
231 Corstorphine Road
EDINBURGH EH12 7AT
Tel: 0131 334 0303
Fax: 0131 334 4473
www.forestry.gov.uk
Joint Nature Conservation Committee
Monkstone House
City Road
PETERBOROUGH
Cambridgeshire PE1 1JY
Tel: 01733 562626
Fax: 01733 555948
www.jncc.gov.uk
MRC Institute for Environment and Health
University of Leicester
94 Regent Road
LEICESTER LE1 7DD
Tel: 0116 223 1600
Fax: 0116 223 1601
www.le.ac.uk/ieh
National Radiological Protection Board
Chilton
DIDCOT
Oxfordshire OX11 0RQ
Tel: 01235 831600
Fax: 01235 833891
www.nrpb.org.uk
Royal Commission on Environmental Pollution
Steel House
11 Tothill Street
LONDON SW1H 9RE
Tel: 020 7273 6635
Fax: 020 7273 6640
www.rcep.org.uk
Scottish Natural Heritage
12 Hope Terrace
EDINBURGH EH9 2AS
Tel: 0131 447 4784
Fax: 0131 446 2277
www.snh.org.uk
Academic institutions
Centre for Analysis of Safety Policy and Attitudes to Risk (CASPAR)
University of Newcastle
Claremont Road
NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE NE1 7RU
Tel: 0191 222 5813
Fax: 0191 222 5780
Centre for Coastal and Marine Sciences
Plymouth Marine Laboratory
Prospect Place
West Hoe
PLYMOUTH PL1 3DH
Tel: 01752 633100
Fax: 01752 633101
www.npm.ac.uk
Centre for Environmental Strategy
University of Surrey
GuilDford
Surrey GU2 5XH
Tel: 01483 300800
Fax: 01483 876671
www.surrey.ac.uk/CES
Centre for Hazard and Risk Management (CHaRM)
Loughborough University
Loughborough
Leicestershire LE11 3TU
Tel: 01509 222161
Fax: 01509 223991
www.lboro.ac.uk/departments/charm/excharm.html
Centre for Social and Economic Research on the Global Environment (CSERGE)
School of Environmental Sciences
University of East Anglia
NORWICH NR4 7TJ
Tel: 01603 593738
Fax: 01603 593739
www.uea.ac.uk/env/all/resgroup/cserge
Non-government organisations
Chemical Industries Association (CIA)
Kings Buildings
Smith Square
LONDON SW1P 3JJ
Tel: 020 7834 3399
Fax: 020 7834 4469
Confederation of British Industry (CBI)
Centre Point
103 New Oxford Street
LONDON WC1A 1DU
Tel: 020 7395 8247
Fax: 020 7240 1578
www.cbi.org.uk
Council for the Protection of Rural England
Warwick House
25 Buckingham Palace Road
LONDON SW1W 0PP
Tel: 020 7976 6433
Fax: 020 7976 6373
www.greenchannel.com/cpre/
The Environment Council
212 High Holborn
LONDON WC1V 7VW
Tel: 020 7836 2626
Fax: 020 7242 1180
www.the-environment-council.org.uk
Environmental Data Services Limited
40 Bowling Green Lane
LONDON EC1R 0NE
Tel: 020 7814 5300
Fax: 020 7415 0106
www.ends.co.uk
Friends of the Earth
26-28 Underwood Street
LONDON N1 7JQ
Tel: 020 7490 1555
Fax: 020 7490 0881
www.foe.org.uk
Green Alliance
40 Buckingham Palace Road
LONDON SW1W 0RE
Tel: 020 7233 7433
Fax: 020 7233 9033
www.green-alliance.demon.co.uk
Greenpeace
Canonbury Villas
LONDON N1 2PN
Tel: 020 7865 8100
Fax: 020 7865 8200
www.greenpeace.org.uk
Royal Society for the Protection of Birds (RSPB)
The Lodge
Sandy
Bedfordshire SG19 2DL
Tel: 01767 680551
www.rspb.org.uk/
World Conservation Monitoring Centre
219 Huntingdon Road
CAMBRIDGE CB3 0DL
Tel: 01223 277314
Fax: 01223 277136
www.wcmc.org.uk
World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF-UK)
Panda House
Weyside Park
Godalming
Surrey GU7 1XR
Tel: 01483 426444
www.wwf-uk.org
European institutions and other international organisations
European Chemicals Bureau
Joint Research Centre
Via E. Fermi 1
TP 582
JRC Ispra
I-21020 (VA)
Italy
Tel: +39 332 789981
Fax: +39 332 785631
http://ecb.ei.jrc.it/
European Documentation and Information Centres - for details of these centres see Lees N, Woolson H, O'Hara J & Wynne B (1997) Environmental Information: A Guide to Sources (Second edition), London, UK, The British Library Science Reference and Information Service
Office for Official Publications of the European Communities
2 Rue Mercier
2985 Luxembourg
http://eur-op.eu.int/general/en/index.htm
Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development
2 rue André Pascal
75775 Paris
CEDEX 16
France
www.oecd.org
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Page published 2 August
2000;
Page last modified
19 September, 2002