Guidance and regulation

The rules you must follow if you own an XL Bully dog in England and Wales.

• From: Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs
• Updated: 19 April 2024

Use IPAFFS to notify enforcement authorities about imports to Great Britain.

• From: Animal and Plant Health Agency and 1 others
• Updated: 31 January 2024

Where you’ll find clean air zones, how to check if you’ll need to pay a charge and create a business account, and what support or exemptions are available.

• From: Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs
• Updated: 26 March 2024

The current conditions affecting boaters on the River Thames and what the warnings mean.

• From: Environment Agency
• Updated: 25 April 2024

How enforcement officers can apply the conformation standard to check if a dog is an XL Bully.

• From: Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs
• Updated: 1 February 2024

Guidance on what BNG is and how it affects land managers, developers and local planning authorities.

• From: Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs
• Updated: 22 February 2024

Apply for a FETF grant for help to buy items that improve productivity, manage slurry and improve animal health and welfare.

• From: Rural Payments Agency
• Updated: 17 April 2024

Tools and guides for measuring the biodiversity value of habitat for biodiversity net gain (BNG).

• From: Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs
• Updated: 12 February 2024

Apply for grants and other funding to increase productivity, manage your land to benefit the environment and support your agricultural business.

• From: Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs and 2 others
• Updated: 9 April 2024

Guidance about how the Sustainable Farming Incentive (SFI) 2023 offer will work for farmers.

• From: Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs and 1 others
• Updated: 22 April 2024

How councils deal with complaints about noise at night, intruder alarms, construction noise and loudspeakers in the street.

• From: Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs
• Updated: 21 December 2017

Guidance for landlords of domestic private rented property on how to comply with the 2018 ‘Minimum Level of Energy Efficiency’ standard (EPC band E).

• From: Department for Energy Security and Net Zero and 1 others
• Updated: 13 April 2023

How to access the Environment Agency's public registers of environmental information.

• From: Environment Agency
• Updated: 13 January 2023

Planning practice guidance on biodiversity net gain. Biodiversity net gain is a way of creating and improving biodiversity by requiring development to have a positive impact (‘net gain’) on biodiversity.

• From: Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
• Updated: 14 February 2024

A guide to the types of development that will be exempt from the mandatory biodiversity net gain (BNG) requirements.

• From: Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs
• Updated: 2 April 2024

What farmers, foresters and land managers need to know and do before applying for a Countryside Stewardship grant, and how to manage a grant agreement.

• From: Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs and 3 others
• Updated: 4 January 2024

Import risk categories under the Border Target Operating Model (BTOM) for animals or animal products you’re importing from the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland, Liechtenstein, the Faroe Islands and Greenland to Great Britain…

• From: Animal and Plant Health Agency and 1 others
• Updated: 19 April 2024

When and how to measure a habitat or development’s impact on biodiversity.

• From: Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs
• Updated: 27 February 2024

How UK organisations that supply or import packaging should comply with extended producer responsibility (EPR) for packaging.

• From: Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs and 1 others
• Updated: 16 April 2024

Official vets and inspectors in England, Scotland and Wales: register or sign in to EHC online to certify export health certificates.

• From: Animal and Plant Health Agency and 1 others
• Updated: 7 November 2023