The Licence and Enforcement Access Portal (LEAP) provides a number of Open Data APIs. This information is populated using the EPA’s CRM system and EDEN Authorisation Module. 

LEAP, accessed at leap.epa.ie, provides public access to the authorisation application, formal compliance and enforcement correspondence that is exchanged between the EPA and our regulated operators in these activity areas: 

• Water Abstractions 

• Dumping at Sea 

• Major Industry: Industrial Emissions (IE), Integrated Pollution Prevention & Control (IPPC), Integrated Pollution Control (IPC) 

• Radiological Protection 

• Urban Waste Water Discharge: Waste Water Discharge Authorisations (WWDA) and Certificates of Authorisation (CoA) Waste Management 

LEAP covers the following: 

• Authorisation profile 

• Site 

• Authorisation 

• • Authorisation Applications * 

• • • Licensing Actions * 

• • • Submissions and Objections * 

• • Change Requests * 

• • Transfers * 

• Licensee return 

• • Type 

• • • Annual environmental report 

• • • Enforcement categorisation and charges 

• • • Monitoring returns 

• • • Request for approval and site reports 

• • • Site closure and surrender 

• • • Site updates/notifications 

• • Licensee return RFI 

• • Licensee return instruction 

• Site Visit 

• • Finding and recommendations (ORP only) 

• • EDEN message 

• Incident 

• • Corrective / preventative measures 

• • Emission parameter result 

• • Update request 

• Complaint 

• Non Compliance 

• Compliance investigation 

• • Likely cause 

• • Effect 

• • Outcome 

• • Action/instruction 

• • • EDEN message 

• 3rd party correspondence 

• EPA initiated correspondence 

• Meeting 

* For Industrial Emissions (IE), Integrated Pollution Control (IPC), Waste Management, Waste Water Discharge Authorisations (WWDA) and Certificates of Authorisation (CoA) authorisation applications that were on-hand on, or received on or after 12th December 2025.  

Documents are published along with many different record types. 

Note: not all APIs are available for each authorisation type/activity area. 

OPEN API Documentation (Swagger)

Further information, including filter and search functionality on each API) is provided in Swagger.

https://data.epa.ie/leap/swagger