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Find out the legal, financial and professional requirements for operators and managers, including extra duties for waste activity operators.
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).
Details on how to dispose of your unwanted distress flares.
How businesses and organisations can avoid causing pollution from oil and chemical storage, car washing, construction and other activities.
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How to get a licence to sell animals as pets, and the conditions you'll need to meet.
The D7 exemption allows you to burn plant tissue and untreated wood waste from joinery or manufacturing in the open air.
Licence conditions of the general licence in England.
How growers and traders can get authorised as a professional operator to issue plant passports and when you need to be authorised.
Check the definition of composite products and understand the import rules and restrictions, depending on the ingredients in your food product.
This guidance explains the appropriate measures that regulated facilities permitted to store, treat or transfer (or both) non-hazardous and inert waste should consider.
Explains the definition of ‘regulated facility’ and how they are grouped into classes.
How to legally carry out slaughter without stunning in accordance with religious rites, including how to restrain and bleed the animal.
Distances between locks on the River Thames and measurements restricting navigation.
Get help to improve water and air quality, and reduce flood risk on agricultural land.
Details of control bodies approved to certify organic food in the UK.
Find out when large and small organisations affected by Extended Producer Responsibility for packaging (EPR) must collect and submit packaging data.
Midlands rod fishing byelaws are statutory (regulated by law) rules and regulations explaining who can fish, and where, when and what fish you can take.
How local planning authorities can ensure that developers and land managers meet the requirements for biodiversity net gain (BNG).
What you need to do before you send waste to a landfill site.
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