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If your business sells amateur plant protection products (PPPs) in Great Britain, register to comply with regulations.
Use this form if you plan to use herbicides to control weeds in water or on the banks next to a waterbody or watercourse.
How to stop harmful weeds spreading onto land used for grazing livestock or growing crops, how to dispose of them and how to report them if they’ve spread.
How to stop the spread and dispose of invasive non-native plants that can harm the environment in England.
Find out how you could do the SFI actions for farmland wildlife on arable and horticultural land.
Find out how you could do the SFI actions for buffer strips.
You need approval from the Heath and Safety Executive (HSE) Chemicals Regulation Directorate (CRD) to sell, distribute or store new pesticides in the UK
This note provides guidance on the methods which can be used to control the five injurious (harmful) weeds specified in the Weeds Act 1959.
Study carried out to identify and characterise new plants able to protect crops against striga under dry conditions
What you need to do if you keep, grow, find or sell certain invasive plant species and your responsibilities to prevent their spread.
Best practice guidelines for the control of individual weed species and communities of weeds.
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