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Services

• Get help and support for your business

  Get business support and advice over the phone and online - setting up and running a business

• Food business registration

  You must register with the council to run a food business - fines, penalties

• Make or update a rural payments claim

  Update your details with the Rural Payments Agency to keep claiming payments for your farm land

• Food labelling and packaging

  Food and drink labelling and packaging regulations - what you must show, warnings, health and organic labels and packaging standards

• Food safety - your responsibilities

  The food safety and hygiene regulations you must follow - the law, regulations

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Guidance and regulation

• Personal food, plant and animal product imports

  Detailed guide

  7 February 2017

  Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs

• BPS 2018

  Detailed guide

  17 August 2018

  Rural Payments Agency

• Register land you use to keep livestock

  Detailed guide

  17 July 2018

  Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs, Rural Payments Agency, and Animal and Plant Health Agency

• Countryside Productivity Scheme
  • Detailed guide
  • 13 August 2018
  • Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs, Rural Payments Agency, and Rural Development Programme for England Network
• Food labelling: giving food information to consumers
  • Detailed guide
  • 29 November 2017
  • Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs and Food Standards Agency

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News and communications

National Drought Group – Chairman’s Statement – September 2018

20 September 2018

Environment Agency

News story

1. Grass greener, but rain needed to reduce drought-risk for 2019
   • 20 September 2018
   • Environment Agency
   • Press release
2. £3m support scheme launched to reduce air pollution from farming
   • 18 September 2018
   • Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs, Environment Agency, and Natural England
   • News story
3. British scientists participated in a seminar in Argentina
   • 14 September 2018
   • World news story
4. Bridging Payments for Environmental Stewardship customers
   • 14 September 2018
   • Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs, Rural Payments Agency, and Natural England
   • News story

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Research and statistics

• Commodity prices
  • 21 September 2018
  • Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs
  • Statistical data set
• Latest statistics on milk utilisation by dairies - national statistics
  • 21 September 2018
  • Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs
  • National statistics
• Latest cattle, sheep and pig slaughter statistics
  • 21 September 2018
  • Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs
  • National statistics
• Latest poultry and poultry meat statistics
  • 20 September 2018
  • Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs
  • National statistics
• Historical statistics notices on poultry and poultry meat production, 2018
  • 20 September 2018
  • Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs
  • National statistics

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Policy and engagement

• The future for food, farming and the environment 13 September 2018

  Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs

  Consultation outcome

  Date closed 08 May 2018

• The future for food, farming and the environment: policy statement (2018)
  • 14 September 2018
  • Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs
  • Policy paper
• Badger Edge Vaccination Scheme 2 (BEVS 2)
  • 13 September 2018
  • Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs and Animal and Plant Health Agency
  • Policy paper
• Advice to Natural England on setting minimum and maximum numbers of badgers to be controlled in 2018
  • 13 September 2018
  • Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs
  • Policy paper
• Bovine TB: government badger control costs
  • 13 September 2018
  • Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs
  • Policy paper

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Transparency

• APHA regulatory and compliance policy
  • 20 September 2018
  • Closed organisation: Animal Health and Veterinary Laboratories Agency and Animal and Plant Health Agency
  • Corporate report
• Bovine TB: compensation value tables
  • 29 August 2018
  • Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs
  • Transparency
• Fish Health Inspectorate: Reports 2017
  • 4 April 2018
  • Centre for Environment, Fisheries and Aquaculture Science
  • Transparency
• AHWBE: register of interests
  • 20 March 2018
  • Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs
  • Transparency
• FOI/EIR responses published by APHA: February 2018
  • 13 March 2018
  • Animal and Plant Health Agency
  • Foi release

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Organisations

1. Department for Environment Food & Rural Affairs
2. Rural Payments Agency
3. Animal & Plant Health Agency
4. Marine Management Organisation
5. Veterinary Medicines Directorate

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1. Centre for Environment Fisheries and Aquaculture Science
2. Advisory Committee on Releases to the Environment
3. Foreign & Commonwealth Office
4. Office of the Secretary of State for Scotland
5. Prime Minister's Office, 10 Downing Street
6. Public Health England
7. Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy
8. Department for Transport
9. Government Office for Science
10. HM Treasury
11. RDPE Network
12. Department for International Development
13. Department of Health & Social Care
14. HM Courts & Tribunals Service
15. HM Revenue & Customs
16. Home Office
17. Northern Ireland Office
18. Cabinet Office
19. Department for International Trade
20. Groceries Code Adjudicator
21. Government Veterinary Services
22. Department for Work & Pensions
23. Office of the Secretary of State for Wales Swyddfa Ysgrifennydd Gwladol Cymru
24. Civil Nuclear Constabulary
25. Civil Nuclear Police Authority
26. Driver & Vehicle Licensing Agency
27. Ministry of Defence
28. Office for Product Safety & Standards
29. Science Advisory Council
30. Administration of Radioactive Substances Advisory Committee
31. Border Force
32. Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport
33. Maritime & Coastguard Agency
34. Medicines & Healthcare products Regulatory Agency
35. Ministry of Housing, Communities & Local Government
36. Tribunal Procedure Committee
37. UK Atomic Energy Authority

1. Natural England
2. Forestry Commission
3. Environment Agency
4. Government Chemist
5. British Cattle Movement Service
6. Marine Accident Investigation Branch
7. Innovate UK
8. UK Co-ordinating Body
9. UK Hydrographic Office
10. Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs
11. Council for Science and Technology
12. Defence Equipment and Support
13. HM Prison Service
14. Industrial Injuries Advisory Council
15. Migration Advisory Committee
16. Rail Accident Investigation Branch