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How to assess a planning application when there are protected plants, fungi or lichens on or near a proposed development site.
Find out how you could do the SFI actions for nutrient management.
Get help to classify edible vegetables, roots, tubers, herbs, spices, fruit, nuts and peel for import and export.
Find out how to make fertiliser from processed ABPs including bonemeal, and if you need approval to manufacture, store or transport it.
Find out what a composite food product is, and the rules you need to follow to export or move these products from Great Britain to the EU and Northern Ireland.
Plant health controls, imports and exports, certification schemes, plant passporting and listed quarantine plant pests.
The seeds which must be certified before you can market them, how to get them certified and how to get a licence for your seed business.
Get help to classify cigarettes, cigars, raw tobacco, smoking tobacco, tobacco for heating and nicotine substitutes for import and export.
The U13 exemption allows you to spread cut plant material at the place of production for weed suppression or to provide nutrients to the soil.
What you need to do if you keep, grow, find or sell certain invasive plant species and your responsibilities to prevent their spread.
Business potential of producing crops for non-food markets, how and where to grow them and details of organisations providing grants.
Licences to release non-native species into the wild
Rules for importing, exporting and moving fresh fruit and vegetables to, from and around the UK.
Import risk categories under the Border Target Operating Model for live animals, animal products, plants and plant products imported to Great Britain.
Find out which plants are banned from sale, which need a licence and how to get a licence.
If you import, manufacture, process, distribute or sell plant protection products (PPPs) for professional use in Great Britain, register to comply with regulations.
Explains what is prohibited, how to describe and classify it and the duty to separate mixed waste.
How to get plant breeders' rights and what protection it gives your plant varieties.
What growers and traders need to do to move plants (including plants for planting, seeds, used agricultural and forestry machinery and vehicles and seed potatoes) using a Northern Ireland plant health label (NIPHL).
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