Policy paper

Gamebirds: decision to issue the gamebird release general licence

How Defra arrived at its decision to issue the gamebird general licence (GL43).

From:
Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs
Published
29 June 2021

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This page has been withdrawn because it’s out of date. You can read the decision to issue the gamebird release general licence for 2022 to 2023.

Applies to England

Documents

Gamebirds: licence to release common pheasants or red-legged partridges on European sites - decision to issue general licence

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Habitats Regulation Assessment (HRA) (includes Annex A and B)

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Annex C - Shadow HRA Part 1: Special Protection Areas (SPAs) and Ramsar sites with bird features in England

PDF, 523 KB, 59 pages

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Annex D - Shadow HRA Part 2: Special Areas of Conservation (SACs) and non-bird Ramsar sites in England

PDF, 517 KB, 54 pages

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Annex E - rationale for advice on the buffer zone conditions and the treatment of terrestrial SPAs and SACs below the mean high-water mark (estuarine sites)

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Annex F - marine and terrestrial SAC, SPA and Ramsar sites screened out from full assessment in the NE sHRA

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Annex G - Licensing the release of two non-native game birds in England: Request for formal advice

PDF, 245 KB, 13 pages

NE advice on original partridge release conditions as considered in Defra’s HRA

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Natural England's advice - Licensing the release of two non-native game birds in England

PDF, 137 KB, 4 pages

Details

Defra’s gamebirds general licence (GL43) allows an authorised person to release common pheasants or red-legged partridges on European sites and within their 500m buffer zones.

This document and annexes explain how Defra considered the evidence and came to the decision to issue this general licence.

Published 29 June 2021

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