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A guide to collecting data about your packaging. This is for UK organisations affected by extended producer responsibility (EPR) for packaging.
Seeking views on plans to ban the distribution and/or sale of plastic straws, stirrers and plastic-stemmed cotton buds in England.
Get help to classify plastics for import and export.
Rt Hon Jack Straw was appointed in July 2015 as a Member of the Independent Commission on Freedom of Information. He was Foreign Secretary 2001 to 2006, Home Secretary 1997 to 2001, and Leader of the Commons 2006 to 2007...
Find out which live animals and animal foods or feeding stuffs are zero-rated for VAT.
This is a list of all the opinions the RPC issued in 2020 on Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs measures.
Manage your birds’ housing and welfare when they must be kept inside because of disease outbreaks.
You must not supply certain single-use plastic items in England, except for some exemptions.
Licences and authorisations to import genetic material, research and diagnostic samples, trade samples and display items, and some live animals and animal products.
Find out how you could do the SFI actions for buffer strips.
From 1 October 2024, more materials facilities will need to sample and report their waste. Sampling and reporting will be more detailed and more frequent under the amended regulations.
Regulatory Policy Committee opinion on DEFRA’s impact assessment of the proposal to ban the supply of plastic drinking straws.
When you can incinerate straw, manure and litter from an animal disease outbreak.
How UK organisations that supply or import packaging should comply with extended producer responsibility (EPR) for packaging.
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