Guidance and regulation

Environment Agency enforcement position on when you can treat and dispose of invasive non-native plant material without an environmental permit.

• From: Environment Agency
• Updated: 1 August 2023

Spreading slurry and milk on agricultural land: Environment Agency advice in exceptional circumstances such as extreme weather.

• From: Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs and 1 others
• Updated: 4 August 2022

Information on waste codes and descriptions to use when landspreading to improve soil health.

• From: Environment Agency
• Updated: 4 May 2023

Find out what visitors can and can't do on greens and how to maintain and de-register your land as an owner or local authority.

• From: Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs and 1 others
• Updated: 7 October 2014

Scheme rules for holders of agreements that started on 1 January 2021

• From: Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs and 3 others
• Updated: 5 March 2021

Find out when and how to report a notifiable tree pest or disease in the UK, and information on services such as Tree Alert, TreeCheck and Observatree.

• From: Animal and Plant Health Agency and 1 others
• Updated: 26 September 2018

Use this code to help you follow the rules when you produce or use sewage sludge in agriculture.

• From: Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs and 1 others
• Updated: 23 May 2018

Competent authorities must take action to help protect, conserve and restore the protected habitats and species of European sites.

• From: Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs and 3 others
• Updated: 24 February 2021

Guidance for local authorities and other land managers in England on maintaining local environmental quality.

• From: Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs and 1 others
• Updated: 9 June 2015

Objectives and priorities of each of the 2023 Countryside Stewardship Facilitation Fund groups.

• From: Natural England and 1 others
• Updated: 26 June 2023

When you need an environmental permit, licence or to address planning considerations to mitigate nutrient pollution.

• From: Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs and 2 others
• Updated: 2 August 2023

Scheme rules for holders of agreements that started on 1 January 2021

• From: Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs and 3 others
• Updated: 5 March 2021

How to carry out and use landscape and seascape character assessments.

• From: Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs and 1 others
• Updated: 2 October 2014

Find out how you could do the SFI actions for buffer strips.

• From: Rural Payments Agency
• Updated: 10 August 2023

What to do if the livestock manure produced on your farm is likely to exceed the amount you're allowed to spread on your land in an NVZ (farm limit).

• From: Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs and 1 others
• Updated: 31 December 2023

What farmers and land managers must know about slurry separators, storing and applying separated materials.

• From: Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs
• Updated: 25 October 2023

Find out how you could do the SFI action for moorland.

• From: Rural Payments Agency
• Updated: 10 August 2023

Addendum to the terms and conditions, and summary of changes, for 2nd edition (2008), 3rd edition (2010) and 4th edition (2013), Entry Level, Organic Entry Level, Uplands Entry Level and Higher Level Stewardship handbooks.

• From: Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs and 1 others
• Updated: 31 October 2022

How to manage water use, levels, drainage and irrigation, and avoid pollution from waste water and sheep dip.

• From: Environment Agency
• Updated: 1 January 2024

How to host educational access visits safely and within the terms of your Higher Level Stewardship agreement.

• From: Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs and 2 others
• Updated: 22 August 2023