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  • Higher Tier agreements for multi-year management options and one-off capital items to protect, restore or enhance the environment.

  • Read about the requirements and procedures you will need to follow, and how to manage your agreement once you're an agreement holder.

  • Marketing standards for poultry meat producers, manufacturers, retailers and distributors.

  • What cattle keepers must do with the barcode labels sent by the British Cattle Movement Service (BCMS) and how to get more if you run out.

  • About checks and controls when sending parcels that contain sanitary and phytosanitary (SPS) goods to Northern Ireland.

  • Guidance for vets, importers and border control officials when importing animal products that are being returned to Great Britain.

  • How to comply with the conditions in your environmental permit for intensive pig and poultry farming.

  • How bottled water producers can get a natural mineral water recognised in England, and rules you need to follow to produce and label it.

  • Recognised breed societies for bovine, ovine, porcine and caprine species, and recognised breed operations for hybrid breeding pigs.

  • Requirements for wine exporters to be self-certified or have an EU VI-1 to export wine to the EU or move it to Northern Ireland.

  • Rules for feeding, watering, prioritising, holding animals for slaughter, and the design and layout of a slaughterhouse.

  • Guidance on listed diseases of fish and shellfish and their status in England and Wales, including what happens if a disease is suspected or confirmed.

  • How to spot koi herpesvirus (KHV), what to do if you suspect it and measures to prevent its spread.

  • Cross compliance ended on 31 December 2023. If you are a farmer or land manager, find out what this means for you.

  • The rules that manufacturers and importers of fertilisers need to follow when trading in the UK.

  • Information to help businesses prepare for a new approach to importing goods to Great Britain under the Border Target Operating Model.

  • Cattle owners and keepers must follow the conditions of this licence when they move their animals.

  • Guidance explaining the use of soil guideline values (SGV) to asses the long-term exposure of chemicals in soil on human health.

  • Send samples (classified as UN3373 biological substance category B) to APHA according to the ADR regulations and P650 packing instructions.

  • Find out how to make fertiliser from processed ABPs including bonemeal, and if you need approval to manufacture, store or transport it.