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How to label spirit drinks that you plan to sell in the UK.
How to control rabbits on your property or business using traps, snares and other methods.
How to make changes to the legal status of a public right of way.
Comprehensive help for those operating, regulating or interested in facilities that are covered by the Environmental Permitting regulations.
List of local authorities awarded funding under the second phase of the Home Upgrade Grant (HUG 2) to be delivered from April 2023 until March 2025.
Rules on how tribunal cases are dealt with in the Property Chamber, including residential property disputes.
Details of control bodies approved to certify organic food in the UK.
Basic Payment Scheme (BPS) rules from 2015 to 2023.
Find out about eligibility and requirements for the stone wall restoration item.
When you need to apply for consent, how to apply, and the works that you can do without consent.
Current rules for exporting horses and other equines (including ponies and donkeys) from the UK.
Find out the legal, financial and professional requirements for operators and managers, including extra duties for waste activity operators.
Find information and support on woodland creation in England, including funding to create woodland, legal requirements and best practice for sustainability.
The legal text underpinning the regulation of manufacture, authorisation, marketing, distribution, use and post-authorisation surveillance of veterinary medicines and medicated feed.
Find out about the Forestry Commission’s Professional Forester Apprenticeship programme that offers an exciting career pathway into the forestry sector.
What the reservoir flood maps show, how they were created and how to use them for your assessments.
Find the 2022 update to the river basin management plans which describe the challenges that threaten the water environment and how these challenges can be managed.
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.
How to comply with your permit, including maintenance, record keeping and pollution reporting requirements.
How the Environment Agency carries out government policy for groundwater and adopts a risk-based approach where legislation allows.
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