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Find contact numbers and email addresses for the Animal and Plant Health Agency (APHA).
The Department for Education's (DfE) sustainability leadership and climate action plans initiative.
Apply online for a CPH number for land or buildings you'll use to keep livestock, including those kept as pets, in England.
Check if you need to apply for an environmental permit, formerly known as a flood defence consent, and get the forms you need.
When you need an environmental permit to discharge liquid effluent or waste water to surface water or the ground, and how to apply.
Find out if you qualify for ESOS and how to comply.
You must identify and classify your waste before you send it for recycling or disposal. This makes sure you or anyone handling your waste deals with it properly.
Guidance on what BNG is and how it affects land managers, developers and local planning authorities.
Use this service to apply for certificates and inspections if you export plants from England and Wales.
Register and pay for exemptions to store, treat, use or dispose of waste. Deregister exemptions you no longer need and update details that have changed.
Technical guidance on how to assess and classify waste.
The rules you must follow if you own an XL Bully dog in England and Wales.
Check the transport companies and routes you can use to bring your pet cat, dog or ferret to England, Scotland or Wales.
Standard rules and bespoke permits for using, treating, storing and disposing of waste. Check if you need a permit and find out how to apply.
Permits for installations, medium combustion plant, specified generator, waste or mining waste operations, water discharge or groundwater activities, or work on or near a main river or sea defence.
How to get an export health certificate to export or move live animals and animal products from Great Britain to the EU, Northern Ireland or non-EU countries.
Current issues relating to imports and exports of animals and animal products.
When and how local planning authorities, developers and their agents should use climate change allowances in flood risk assessments.
Find out when you need to do a flood risk assessment as part of your planning application, how to complete one and how it is processed.
A guide to collecting data about your packaging. This is for UK organisations affected by extended producer responsibility (EPR) for packaging.
Don’t include personal or financial information like your National Insurance number or credit card details.
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