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Your responsibilities as a public body when carrying out or approving works on or near sites of special scientific interest (SSSIs).
This page provides background information on public bodies and gives guidance to departments.
Understand the role of Natural England, local authorities and partnerships when designating or managing AONBs in England.
Find out more about the reserves, where they are, who manages them and what special features or opportunities they offer.
Rules on labelling food, feed and seed as organic or using organic production terms if you produce, prepare, store, import, export or sell organic food in the UK.
We’re the government’s adviser for the natural environment in England. We help to protect and restore our natural world. Natural England is an executive non-departmental public body, sponsored by the Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs .
If you’re a farmer or land manager, you can get funding to support and improve Areas of Outstanding Natural Beauty (AONBs), National Parks and the Broads.
How bottled water producers can get a natural mineral water recognised in England, and rules you need to follow to produce and label it.
Explains key issues in implementing policy to protect and enhance the natural environment, including local requirements.
The Natural History Museum (NHM) is home to life and earth science specimens comprising some 70 million items within 5 main collections: Botany, Entomology, Mineralogy, Palaeontology and Zoology. The museum is a world-renowned centre of research, specialising in taxonomy, identification...
How to create and implement a conservation covenant agreement to preserve your land in England.
How a competent authority must decide if a plan or project proposal that affects a European site can go ahead.
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.
How to assess a planning application when there are protected species on or near a proposed development site.
Details of control bodies approved to certify organic food in the UK.
Guidance on what BNG is and how it affects land managers, developers and local planning authorities.
Decide which activities are business or non-business for VAT purposes if you're a local authority or other public body.
Rules for importing organic food, feed and seed to Great Britain (England, Scotland and Wales) and Northern Ireland.
Guidance on tests and inspections for producers, processors, importers and sellers of organic food, feed and seed.
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