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The SWMP guidance has been written for local authorities to assist them as they co-ordinate and lead local flood risk management activities.
How to minimise the risk of disease from animal wool and hair, register your site, and dispose of materials you don't want.
Find out about the licences you need and rules you must follow to import Specified Animal Pathogens into England, Scotland and Wales.
How to spot chronic wasting disease (CWD), what to do if you suspect it and measures to prevent its spread.
How to spot contagious equine metritis, what to do if you suspect it and measures to prevent its spread.
The rules you must follow to make sure deer can be traced to help prevent and contain disease.
How to comply with regulations for energy recovery and advanced conversion technologies.
First published during the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government
How to get accredited status for your country park, find out if you’re eligible, how to apply and what happens next.
Find out how to make fertiliser from processed ABPs including bonemeal, and if you need approval to manufacture, store or transport it.
The rules businesses must follow when moving mercury and products containing mercury between Great Britain, the EU and Northern Ireland.
What you need standard operating procedures for, the role of animal welfare officers, livestock unit limits and record keeping in slaughterhouses.
Flood risk activity exemptions and how to register.
How to apply for orders to set up a private shellfishery or manage a natural shellfishery: powers to restrict fishing rights and issue licences.
Know when your premises could be inspected, the powers inspectors have, and enforcement notices and penalties you could receive for sites that kill animals.
When you get a Special Nature Conservation Order (SNCO) and how to challenge it, what a stop notice means, and get consent for restricted activities that affect European sites.
This legally binding Order, which is enforced by Defra, comes into force 1 October 2012.
Technical information on the 2024 update of Standard Labour Requirement Coefficients used in the Farm Business Survey and the June Survey of Agriculture and Horticulture, England.
Regulators must use this process guidance note (PGN) to assess applications and write permits for coating of metal and plastic.
Lists of confined establishments in Great Britain, Jersey and the Isle of Man approved to export or move captive-bred birds to the EU or Northern Ireland.
Scheme rules for holders of agreements that started on 1 January 2021
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