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Services

  1. Get help and support for your business

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

  2. Food business registration

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

  3. Make or update a rural payments claim

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

  4. Use Cattle Tracing System (CTS) Online

    Register with BCMS's online service to register cattle births and report cattle deaths and cattle movements online

  5. Food labelling and packaging

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

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Guidance and regulation

  1. Personal food, plant and animal product imports
    • Detailed guide
    • Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs
  2. Countryside Productivity Scheme
    • Detailed guide
    • Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs, Rural Payments Agency, and Rural Development Programme for England Network
  3. Register land you use to keep livestock
    • Detailed guide
    • Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs, Rural Payments Agency, and Animal and Plant Health Agency
  4. Food labelling: giving food information to consumers
    • Detailed guide
    • Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs and Food Standards Agency
  5. BPS 2018
    • Detailed guide
    • Rural Payments Agency
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News and communications

Press release

93.4% of Basic Payment Scheme claims paid in December

Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs and Rural Payments Agency

  1. Ashford dairy farmer prosecuted for polluting stream with slurry
    • Environment Agency
    • Press release
  2. Cutting food waste: game-changing fund opens
    • Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs
    • News story
  3. Japan opens market to British lamb and beef
    • Office of the Secretary of State for Wales
    • Press release
  4. Oxford Farming Conference 2019 address by the Environment Secretary
    • Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs
    • Speech
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Research and statistics

  1. Commodity prices
    • Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs
    • Statistical data set
  2. Wholesale fruit and vegetable prices, weekly average
    • Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs
    • Statistical data set
  3. Exotic species and domestic cats: TSE surveillance statistics
    • Animal and Plant Health Agency
    • Research
  4. Active disease surveillance: TSE statistics
    • Animal and Plant Health Agency
    • Research
  5. Goats: TSE surveillance statistics
    • Animal and Plant Health Agency
    • Research
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Policy papers and consultations

  1. UKSF: UK approach to animal health surveillance
    • Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs, Welsh Government, The Scottish Government, and Department of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs (Northern Ireland)
    • Policy paper
  2. Bovine TB: summary of badger control monitoring during 2018
    • Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs and Natural England
    • Policy paper
  3. Bovine TB: biosecurity progress report 2018
    • Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs
    • Policy paper
  4. UK Surveillance Forum (UKSF) terms of reference
    • Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs, Welsh Government, The Scottish Government, and Department of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs (Northern Ireland)
    • Policy paper
  5. Badger Edge Vaccination Scheme 2 (BEVS 2)
    • Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs and Animal and Plant Health Agency
    • Policy paper
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Transparency and freedom of information releases

  1. APHA quality policy statement
    • Animal and Plant Health Agency
    • Corporate report
  2. Bovine TB: compensation value tables
    • Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs
    • Transparency
  3. APHA regulatory and compliance policy
    • Closed organisation: Animal Health and Veterinary Laboratories Agency and Animal and Plant Health Agency
    • Corporate report
  4. Fish Health Inspectorate: Reports 2017
    • Centre for Environment, Fisheries and Aquaculture Science
    • Transparency
  5. AHWBE: register of interests
    • Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs
    • Transparency
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Organisations

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