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This code provides practical guidance on how to meet your waste duty of care requirements in England and Wales.
Find out which Environment Agency locks and weirs you can fish at, the licences and permits you need and when you can fish.
As a vet or pharmacist, you must follow legal requirements when working with controlled drugs in veterinary medicine.
Decommissioning programmes, including dates, locations, installations decommissioned, method of decommissioning and close-out reports where available.
Find out about eligibility and requirements for the hard bases for livestock drinkers item.
Legal requirements that you have to follow as a food business.
Legal standards for labelling and composition of food products such as bottled water, milk and meat.
How to manage the burial of animal remains to prevent or limit groundwater pollution.
When a material is waste, is a by-product or meets ‘end of waste’ status.
Find out about eligibility and requirements for the species management plan item.
The rules to follow when moving animals within a restricted zone, including to markets, shows and slaughterhouses.
How developers can create and enhance habitat on-site to deliver biodiversity net gain (BNG).
Environment Agency regulatory position on when you can exceed storage capacity at permitted or unpermitted sites in response to current national treatment capacity constraints for WTEE.
Check if you need a licence or phytosanitary certificate to export or move plants and plant products.
Import risk categories under the Border Target Operating Model (BTOM) for animals or animal products you’re importing from a non-EU country to Great Britain (England, Scotland and Wales), the import rules and inspection rate…
How businesses and organisations can avoid causing pollution from oil and chemical storage, car washing, construction and other activities.
Guidance on the Animal and Plant Health Agency laboratory testing services and prices for animal disease diagnosis.
What you need to do if you keep, grow, find or sell certain invasive plant species and your responsibilities to prevent their spread.
How to apply for a licence to offer boarding for cats and dogs, and the conditions you'll need to meet.
What you must do to avoid harming birds and when you’ll need a licence.
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