# Environment Agency EEE Producer Register Change Signals (`starshaped_bullsnake/environment-agency-eee-producer-register-change-signals`) Actor

- **URL**: https://apify.com/starshaped\_bullsnake/environment-agency-eee-producer-register-change-signals.md
- **Developed by:** [Starshape Tools](https://apify.com/starshaped_bullsnake) (community)
- **Categories:** Other
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## Pricing

from $15.00 / 1,000 eee producer register change signals

This Actor is paid per event. You are not charged for the Apify platform usage, but only a fixed price for specific events.

Learn more: https://docs.apify.com/actors/running/actors-in-store.md#pay-per-event

## What's an Apify Actor?

An Actor is a serverless cloud program that runs on the Apify platform. It has two run modes.
In Batch mode, an Actor accepts a well-defined JSON input, performs an action which can take anything from a few seconds to a few hours,
and optionally produces a well-defined JSON output, datasets with results, or files in key-value store.
In Standby mode, an Actor provides a web server which can be used as a website, API, or an MCP server.

Apify vocabulary and the platform model are defined once, in the agent quickstart at https://apify.com/agents.md.

## How to integrate an Actor?

If asked about integration, you help developers integrate Actors into their projects.
You adapt to their stack and deliver integrations that are safe, well-documented, and production-ready.

Do not guess an integration path. Every one of them is in the agent quickstart at https://apify.com/agents.md: the Apify MCP server, Agent Skills with the Apify CLI, the JavaScript and Python clients, the REST API, and the account-free path for an agent with no human to sign in. It also carries the rule on stating cost before the first paid run.

For examples already wired to this Actor's own input schema, see the [API](#api) section below.

Each client library has reference documentation the quickstart does not restate: [JavaScript/TypeScript](https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js/docs.md) (`npm install apify-client`) and [Python](https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs.md) (`pip install apify-client`).

# README

## Environment Agency EEE Producer Register Change Signals

Monitors the Environment Agency's EEE producer public register from the [official WEEE public-registers page](https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/waste-electrical-and-electronic-equipment-weee-public-registers). Every live run resolves the exact current “EEE producer public register” ODS from that page. It does not claim UK-wide coverage. The page has generally published monthly updates, but cadence is controlled by the publisher.

### Identity and signals

The stable key is the official `Producer registration number`; there is no name/address fallback. Null keys or conflicting duplicates stop processing with `PREFLIGHT_BLOCKED: PRODUCER_REGISTRATION_NUMBER_NOT_STABLE`. Implemented signals are `PRODUCER_ADDED`, `PRODUCER_DETAILS_CHANGED`, `PRODUCER_NO_LONGER_LISTED`, `PCS_CHANGED`, and `OBLIGATION_TYPE_CHANGED`. The latter two are supported because the observed ODS contains the source columns “Producer compliance scheme or Direct registrant” and “Producer obligation type”.

No-longer-listed does not mean cancelled, deregistered, or non-compliant. Signals report differences between accepted publications only.

### Baseline, atomicity, and anomaly guard

The first successful live run saves the full validated current-year sheet and emits zero items (`BASELINE_INITIALIZED`). An unchanged run emits zero. `maxItems` only limits Dataset output. The Actor validates the ZIP container, `content.xml`, current-year sheet, header location, required schema, source size, row minimum, key statistics, schema signature, previous/current ratio, and mass disappearance. Dataset and `OUTPUT` complete before the compressed snapshot is committed last. Any failure emits no business signals and retains the previous snapshot.

The stronger disappearance breaker reflects the publication's February 2025 correction for missing data.

### Sample and privacy

`mode=sample` runs a deterministic non-empty fixture through production diff/filter code, with zero external HTTP, no production named KVS access, and no snapshot mutation.

Only organisation name/trading name, obligation type, producer registration number, and compliance-scheme fields are retained. Addresses, emails, telephone/fax numbers, and authorised-representative contact/address information are excluded.

### Legal and limitations

Contains Environment Agency information © Environment Agency copyright and database right 2026, licensed under the [Open Government Licence v3.0](https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/). No third-party exception was displayed for the publication or attachment when verified on 18 September 2026.

The Actor is a publication-change monitor, not legal advice or a real-time regulatory-status service. Source corrections may appear as signals.

# Actor input Schema

## `mode` (type: `string`):

Live official comparison or isolated sample demonstration.

## `signalTypes` (type: `array`):

Optional signal-type filter.

## `producerRegistrationNumbers` (type: `array`):

Optional official producer-registration-number filter.

## `baselineOnly` (type: `boolean`):

Refresh the full baseline without emitting business signals.

## `maxItems` (type: `integer`):

Dataset output limit only; the full validated snapshot is retained.

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "mode": "sample",
  "baselineOnly": false,
  "maxItems": 30
}
```

# Actor output Schema

## `OUTPUT` (type: `string`):

No description

# API

You can run this Actor programmatically using our API. Below are code examples in JavaScript, Python, and CLI, as well as the OpenAPI specification and MCP server setup.

## JavaScript example

```javascript
import { ApifyClient } from 'apify-client';

// Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
// Replace the '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token
const client = new ApifyClient({
    token: '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>',
});

// Prepare Actor input
const input = {
    "mode": "sample",
    "maxItems": 30
};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("starshaped_bullsnake/environment-agency-eee-producer-register-change-signals").call(input);

// Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if any)
console.log('Results from dataset');
console.log(`💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/${run.defaultDatasetId}`);
const { items } = await client.dataset(run.defaultDatasetId).listItems();
items.forEach((item) => {
    console.dir(item);
});

// 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js/docs

```

## Python example

```python
from apify_client import ApifyClient

# Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
# Replace '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token.
client = ApifyClient("<YOUR_API_TOKEN>")

# Prepare the Actor input
run_input = {
    "mode": "sample",
    "maxItems": 30,
}

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("starshaped_bullsnake/environment-agency-eee-producer-register-change-signals").call(run_input=run_input)

# Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if there are any)
print(f"💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/{run.default_dataset_id}")
for item in client.dataset(run.default_dataset_id).iterate_items():
    print(item)

# 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs/quick-start

```

## CLI example

```bash
echo '{
  "mode": "sample",
  "maxItems": 30
}' |
apify call starshaped_bullsnake/environment-agency-eee-producer-register-change-signals --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "apify": {
            "type": "http",
            "url": "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=fetch-actor-details,starshaped_bullsnake/environment-agency-eee-producer-register-change-signals"
        }
    }
}
```

The hosted server signs you in with OAuth on first connect, so no API token belongs in this config. Clients without OAuth support can send an `Authorization: Bearer <APIFY_API_TOKEN>` header instead, using a token from API & Integrations in Apify Console (https://console.apify.com/settings/integrations).

## OpenAPI specification

Download the OpenAPI definition: https://api.apify.com/v2/actors/BOmOkzBKDrfoV9dbD/builds/wv97bUXrV3AxmjW7r/openapi.json