Policies

Compliance policy

This policy explains the EPA’s regulatory compliance approach.

EPA Regulatory Compliance Policy

Compliance principles

These principles guide us in our approach to being a proactive regulator. We apply them when we are carrying out compliance, monitoring and enforcement activities.

Compliance, monitoring and enforcement principles

Intervention guidelines

These guidelines set out when we can intervene in a council's enforcement action under the Resource Management Act (RMA) 1991.

RMA intervention guidelines (PDF, 129 KB)

Prosecution policy

This policy sets out the guidelines and standards we follow when deciding whether to prosecute, and when conducting prosecutions.

The prosecution policy is based on the Crown Law Solicitor-General’s Prosecution Guidelines. 

EPA Prosecution Policy (PDF, 320 KB)

Solicitor-General’s Prosecution Guidelines – crownlaw.govt.nz