Compliance Calendar: every environmental due date a site owes, in one place.

It is a dated register of every environmental obligation a site owes (consent renewals, statutory returns, monitoring submissions and clearance-condition reports) with the authority, the due date and the person responsible against each one. It exists because the obligations sit under different statutes with different authorities and different dates, and nothing consolidates them for you.

For a typical operating unit: the Environmental Statement in Form-V, submitted to the State Pollution Control Board on or before 30 September for the year ending 31 March; the annual return under the Hazardous and Other Wastes Rules 2016, due by 30 June for the preceding year; and, where the site holds an Environment Clearance, half-yearly compliance reports due on 1 June and 1 December. Waste-stream and producer-responsibility returns sit on top of these.

A legal register answers which laws apply to this site and what each requires. A compliance calendar answers what is due, when, and from whom. The register is the source; the calendar is the operating schedule derived from it. A site needs both, and a calendar built without a register underneath it usually misses obligations rather than dates.

Validity depends on the pollution category (Red, Orange, Green or White) and on the State Pollution Control Board concerned, since boards apply the categorisation with their own validity periods and conditions. Renewal must be applied for before expiry, not after, and the lead time matters more than the date: an application filed on the day of expiry leaves a unit operating without a live consent while it is processed.

Liability under the Water Act, the Air Act and the Environment (Protection) Act 1986 rests with the occupier and, in the case of a company, with the persons in charge of the conduct of its business. The Jan Vishwas (Amendment of Provisions) Act 2023 replaced imprisonment with monetary penalties determined by adjudicating officers for a number of these offences: the consequence changed shape, the obligation did not soften.

It should. An EC letter carries specific and general conditions (monitoring frequencies, greenbelt milestones, CER commitments, reporting to the regional office) and each of those is an obligation with a date. Building the clearance conditions into the same calendar as the consent returns is what prevents the common failure of a site that files its Form-V faithfully and never reports against its EC.

Yes, and for a multi-state operator it should, because state boards differ in format, portal and practice while the central obligations stay the same. The calendar is built site by site, since consents and clearances are site-specific. And then rolled up so a corporate EHS function can see the whole estate and its exposures on one view.