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How local authorities must deal with fly-tipping and the penalties they can charge.
How businesses and organisations can avoid causing pollution from oil and chemical storage, car washing, construction and other activities.
Businesses such as joiners, gardeners and farmers can burn their own untreated wood and plant waste on a bonfire, at the place it was produced.
Find out if your land is in a nitrate vulnerable zone (NVZ) and how to appeal.
Apply to join the Natural England great crested newt district level licensing scheme as a developer, ecologist or landowner.
Substances that are classed as persistent organic pollutants (POPs) and when you're allowed to use them.
Find out when you must use a Defra-approved disinfectant, which product to use, and in what concentration.
Navigation on the River Thames may be restricted or closed in certain areas. Find out where and when these restrictions and closures are.
How to comply with food standards law when producing, importing or selling bread and flour.
How to get data and documents held by the Mining Remediation Authority.
How to market eggs, including rules on registration, egg marking, salmonella control and egg marketing inspections in England and Wales.
How to import plants, fruit, vegetables, cut flowers, trees, seeds and used agricultural machinery from non-EU countries to Great Britain (England, Scotland and Wales).
Find out about eligibility and requirements for the wooden field gate item.
How growers and traders can get authorised as a professional operator to issue plant passports and when you need to be authorised.
Find out when you need a felling licence to fell trees, and what we do if trees are felled without a licence. This can apply to your land, or land you manage.
What you must do to protect the welfare of animals during transport.
The programme supports the development and demonstration of heat pump technologies and tools, and solutions for optimised deployment of heat pumps.
Check the land details you have registered on the Rural Payments service.
What you need to know about the Environment Agency’s new national risk information for flooding and coastal erosion.
How to dispose of dead wild birds or ask for them to be removed.
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