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From Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs (Defra)
  • Find out what to do and how much it costs to register a biodiversity gain site.

  • How farm business tenants and landlords can claim compensation for improvements, terminate a tenancy and ask for a rent review.

  • What you need to do to export or move food, drink and agricultural products.

  • How small producers register and what they must collect, report and pay under the extended producer responsibility (EPR) for packaging regulations.

  • Licences and authorisations to import genetic material, research and diagnostic samples, trade samples and display items, and some live animals and animal products.

  • How developers can get advice on Nationally Significant Infrastructure Projects (NSIPs) and applications for planning, permission in principle and technical details consent.

  • Find out how much funding you can claim, to reduce endemic diseases and conditions, increase animal productivity and improve animal welfare.

  • Local authority regulators must use this process guidance note 5/2 (25) to assess applications and write permits for crematoria.

  • How to import or move live animals and germinal products from the EU to Great Britain.

  • You must not supply certain single-use plastic items in England, except for some exemptions.

  • How to use the calculators to work out a nutrient budget for residential developments in nutrient neutrality catchments.

  • How to get a licence to breed dogs, and the conditions you must meet.

  • How developers can create and enhance habitat off-site or buy biodiversity units to achieve biodiversity net gain (BNG).

  • What you must record in a holding register (also called a flock or herd record), when to update it and what to use.

  • The signs of bluetongue virus, how you must report it and what happens when you do.

  • Manage your birds’ housing and welfare when they must be kept inside because of disease outbreaks.

  • A list of all F gases and their global warming potentials.

  • Guidance for local authorities on licensing and enforcement responsibilities for privately kept primates.

  • Find out when large and small organisations affected by Extended producer responsibility (EPR) packaging must collect and submit packaging data.

  • Find out what you must do before you get a pet pig, how to register as a keeper and get a pig walking licence and what you can feed pet pigs.