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Get help to classify various types of wood for import and export.
Find out how to import timber and wood material, including the documents, identity checks and plant health inspections required.
Find out about the Woods into Management – Timber in Construction Innovation Fund and how you can compete for funding to help increase and facilitate the use of home-grown English wood and wood fibre in construction.
The T6 exemption allows you to chip, shred, cut or pulverise waste wood and plant matter to make it easier to store and transport, or to convert it for use.
If you use, produce or supply wood packaging material (WPM) to move goods to or from the EU or the rest of the world, you must make sure it meets international standards.
Planting the right tree, in the right place, can help diversify business income, offset emissions, and bring direct benefits to your land, crops, and livestock. Find out more in the collection of resources below.
Requirements for solid wood packaging used to import or export goods
How to export certain types of regulated wood, wood products and bark from Great Britain to the world.
Find out how to improve permanent access and infrastructure at woodlands you manage.
What you need to do to supply, distribute and sell wood for use in domestic heating appliances in England.
Collection of plant health guidance and forms for trading in wood, wood products, firewood, bark, dunnage or wood packaging.
Find out about the Woods into Management Routes to Market for Ash Timber Innovation Fund and how you can compete for funding to help restore woodlands suffering from ash dieback.
Information on the implementation of the Wood Review. In June 2013 the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, asked Sir Ian Wood to conduct an independently led review of UKCS oil and gas recovery, specifically looking at how...
Regulators must use this process guidance note (PGN) to assess applications and write permits for timber and wood-based products.
The Environment Agency has provided these low risk waste positions (LRWPs) for waste operations that it considers may be suitable for an exemption.
Find out about priority habitats and species, the value of ancient and native woodland and when it's appropriate to remove trees to restore open habitats.
Find out about funding to improve our woodland habitat and increase their resilience to pests, diseases and climate change.
Register so you can import or export regulated timber, wood products and bark, apply for export phytosanitary certificates, issue plant passports or apply ISPM15 marking.
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