The Electronic Forms Submission service in the Environmental Protection Interactive Center (EPIC) is provided under the provision of the Electronic Transaction Ordinance (ETO) . Under this service, you may submit information/application to Environmental Protection Department (EPD) by filling the appropriate forms, attach relevant information through electronic files, and sign the forms for submission through the system. Starting from January 2017, EPD introduces an additional easy and convenient way for you to submit application for Construction Noise Permit (EPD74 & EPD75) and Noise Emission Label (EPD201 & EPD202) online by providing an image of signature. When downloading the forms, you may choose an electronic form which requires either digital signing or without digital signing. With the version of without digital signing, you are able to choose settling application fee via e-payment options, or at Customer Service Counters. Application for licence of Water Pollution Control Ordinance (EPD117) also supports image of signature feature starting from 20th December 2018.

You must be registered in the Environmental Protection Interactive Center (EPIC) as an applicant before being able to submit electronic forms.

To ensure successful submission of electronic application, please note the following prerequisite:

1. This service is designed to be used by Adobe Reader 9.2 or above for opening electronic form, and Microsoft Internet Explorer version 11 on Windows platform (Microsoft Windows 7, Windows 8, Windows 10) or Microsoft Edge on Microsoft Windows 10 or Mozilla Firefox version 38 (or above) on Linux platform, Mac OS X platform, and Windows platform, or Google Chrome 30 (or above) on Linux platform, Mac OS X platform, and Windows platform, or Safari version 8 (or above) on Mac OS X platform for application form download / new user registration / application status enquiry.

2. Browser configurations incuding Javascript, Cookies, TLS 1.2 and 128-bit SSL must be enabled.

3. If you are going to settle payment by a Visa credit card, you must register the "Verified by Visa" service with your card issuing bank. Otherwise you may not be able to complete the transaction. Some Visa card and MasterCard issuers do not support online payment, please check with your credit card issuers to ascertain if they support online payment.

4. For correct display and input of Chinese Characters in Adobe Reader, Traditional Chinese version is recommended. Chinese Traditional Font Packs should be installed for non-Chinese version -> http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/acrrasianfontpack.html .

5. For correct display of Chinese Characters in browsers, the computer must be able to display the Big-5 or ISO10646 character set with "the Hong Kong Supplementary Character Set (HKSCS)" published by the HKSAR Government. The character set can be downloaded at -> http://www.digital21.gov.hk/eform/english/download.html .

6. You must have a valid digital certificate issued by the Hong Kong Post Office or any Certificate Authority recognized by the HKSAR Government.

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