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Highly Protected Marine Areas protect our diverse species and habitats around the English Coast.
The paper outlines the rationale for Highly Protected Marine Areas, gives an overview of the sites intended for designation and provides details of the selection process.
How to assess a planning application when there are protected plants, fungi or lichens on or near a proposed development site.
Home Responsibilities Protection ran between 1978 and 2010 to help protect your State Pension - National Insurance credits, what you'll get, eligibility and applying.
You can take different tax-free lump sums from your pension pot depending on the type of protected allowances you hold.
For company directors, LLP members or people with significant control (PSCs) who are at serious risk and want to protect their personal information from the public.
Find out the measures the UK and EC are taking to reduce fishing industry threats to marine life, such as overfishing, finning, and bycatch
How to assess a planning application when there are otters on or near a proposed development site.
The government response to the review of Highly Protected Marine Areas (HPMAs).
Government partners with conservation charity ZSL to launch app update allowing tracking and logging of creatures in waters around British Overseas Territories.
The UK’s independent nuclear deterrent has existed for over 60 years to deter the most extreme threats to our national security and way of life.
Ecologists can use European protected species (EPS) policies on development sites to benefit EPS by changing survey, mitigation or compensation methods.
The Marine Management Organisation (MMO) is proposing management measures to protect the first three Highly Protected Marine Areas (HPMAs) in England.
Information for developers on how to avoid harming protected areas and species during development work.
How to assess a planning application when there are protected species on or near a proposed development site.
How you can lose your protected allowances on pension savings, how to avoid this and how to tell HMRC if you lose protection.
Information about the Highly Protected Marine Area designation at North East of Farnes Deep in the North Sea.
A form of IP that extends the protection of patented active ingredients present in pharmaceutical or plant protection products.
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