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The Environment Agency set up its monitoring certification scheme (MCERTS) to provide guidelines on the standards you need to meet to monitor emissions.

MCERTS for manual stack emissions monitoring has 2 components:

• certifying individuals to the MCERTS personnel competency standard
• accreditation of organisations to the MCERTS performance standard for organisations

The MCERTS personnel standard specifies 3 levels of competency:

• entry level (trainee)
• level 1 (technician)
• level 2 (team leader)

This document sets out the examination syllabuses for level 1, level 2 and technical endorsements.