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Get help to classify cigarettes, cigars, raw tobacco, smoking tobacco, tobacco for heating and nicotine substitutes for import and export.
Advises on how planning can ensure water quality and the delivery of adequate water and wastewater infrastructure.
How to design, inspect, monitor and maintain impounding reservoir spillways so they are safe.
Advises of possibility of premature pipe failure due to fatigue when pipes are incorrectly mounted, or subjected to in service vibration.
Fibre in Water (FiW) is an open competition, run by DCMS from HM Treasury’s Shared Outcomes Fund and supported by DEFRA, BEIS and Cabinet Office. It will allocate up to £4 million of R&D funding to projects that develop and...
If you impound water, or plan to, you may need to apply for an impounding licence.
Codes of Practice detail the regular maintenance requirements of safety equipment and systems to a high standard, as is required to maintain fishing certificates.
How to meet the general binding rules if your septic tank or small sewage discharge treatment plant releases (discharges) waste water to a surface water.
A guide to adapting your home or business to flooding, and how to pump water out of your property after a flood.
Where to install your meter, checking it's accurate, how often to check it and the records you must keep.
Check if you need to apply for an environmental permit, formerly known as a flood defence consent, and get the forms you need.
UK and international codes and standards for vessel stability and loadlines, safety advice and regulations for boatmasters, designers or shipbuilders dealing with vessel stability.
Emerging techniques on how to prevent or minimise the environmental impacts of hydrogen production by electrolysis of water.
The conditions that new cemetery developments, or new extensions of a cemetery, can operate under without needing an environmental permit.
Follow this groundwater protection code of practice to prevent pollution from solvent use and storage.
The 5G Testbeds and Trials Programme is the government’s nationally coordinated programme of investment in 5G.
How to register as a spring water producer, and the rules you must follow to produce and market spring water.
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