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Treating and disposing of non-hazardous farm waste, sending to landfill, burying waste, incinerating fallen stock and recycling waste fuel oil.
How to legally kill your own poultry, cattle, pigs, sheep, goats, rabbits and hares to eat at home.
How to safely and legally dispose of dead farm animals and horses.
How to legally carry out slaughter without stunning in accordance with religious rites, including how to restrain and bleed the animal.
How to get your site approved, the category your site falls into, the type of incinerator you need and how it must be maintained.
Rules of shackle line operations, waterbath and gas stunners, and facilities for slaughtering poultry, rabbits and hares in abattoirs.
How the Industrial Emissions Best Available Technique (BAT) regime works from the end of the transition period.
What animal by-products (ABPs) are, how to set up a site that uses them safely, the paperwork you need, and how to dispose of them.
Know which licence or certificate you must have to restrain, stun or kill animals which are not for human consumption, and how to carry out these operations.
Check the VAT rules for food processing and abattoir services.
Guidance about compensation to owners and occupiers of agricultural premises once a compulsory purchase order comes into force.
Trade remedies protect domestic industries from unfair practices around imports. The UK’s own independent trade policy includes a trade remedies system.
Form to apply for approval to incinerate animal by-products (ABPs) at your processing facility or incineration site.
Decommissioning programmes, including dates, locations, installations decommissioned, method of decommissioning and close-out reports where available.
How to work out the VAT on building work and materials if you're a contractor, subcontractor or developer.
What sites are collection centres, the animal by-products (ABPs) you can treat at one, and how you must treat them.
Information for farmers about inspections the Animal and Plant Health Agency carries out where livestock, poultry, fish or shellfish matter is incinerated.
Rules for feeding, watering, prioritising, holding animals for slaughter, and the design and layout of a slaughterhouse.
Guidance about compensation to owners and occupiers of residential properties once a compulsory purchase order comes into force.
Information for abattoirs on what to expect when an inspector visits to check you're complying with the beef carcase classification rules.
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