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Find out how much nitrogen you can use on your land and how to plan and record your fertiliser use in a nitrate vulnerable zone (NVZ).
A list of organisations in England, Scotland and Wales that inspect and certify animals and animal products for export. The list does not include every certifier.
Read the guidance to help you make your claim for payment using the Rural Payments service or a claim form.
Find out which Environment Agency locks and weirs you can fish at, the licences and permits you need and when you can fish.
Climate change is happening and is due to human activities; along with warming, many other changes are occurring such as melting polar ice, rising sea levels and more frequent floods, droughts and heatwaves.
What you must do to avoid harming bats and when you’ll need a licence.
Find out if and by when you need to apply for a medium combustion plant directive (MCPD) environmental permit to meet air quality requirements.
How to comply with food standards law when producing, importing or selling bread and flour.
Information for pest controllers about the rules for using glue traps to catch rodents and how to apply for a licence.
Check if you need an Article 10 certificate for commercial use of endangered species on the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES) list.
If you’re a farmer or land manager, you can get funding to support and improve National Landscapes, National Parks and the Broads.
Check the requirements you must follow under your Sustainable Farming Incentive (SFI) agreement for the SFI expanded offer for 2024.
Find out when you must use a Defra-approved disinfectant, which product to use, and in what concentration.
Find out about eligibility and requirements for the hedgerow laying item.
Outlines the provisions of the Food (Promotion and Placement) (England) Regulations 2021, and provides assistance in understanding and applying them.
Find out the legal, financial and professional requirements for operators and managers, including extra duties for waste activity operators.
How to complete waste or materials facility returns, and deadlines for submission.
When you need to do an environmental risk assessment, when the Environment Agency will do it for you, and how to do a risk assessment.
What you must record in a holding register (also called a flock or herd record), when to update it and what to use.
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