Guidance and regulation

Legal standards for labelling and composition of food products such as bottled water, milk and meat.

• From: Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs
• Updated: 20 September 2022

Rules for importing, exporting and moving fresh fruit and vegetables to, from and around the UK.

• From: Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs
• Updated: 8 May 2024

Find out if your land is eligible for an SFI agreement.

• From: Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs and 1 others
• Updated: 23 June 2023

Register to keep up to 49 birds, including any you’re keeping as pets.

• From: Animal and Plant Health Agency and 1 others
• Updated: 21 March 2024

Quality and labelling rules for growing, packing, distributing, importing and selling fresh fruit and vegetables.

• From: Animal and Plant Health Agency and 1 others
• Updated: 8 May 2024

Labelling rules for businesses in Great Britain (England, Scotland and Wales) and retailers in Northern Ireland, for certain agri-food products moved under the Northern Ireland Retail Movement Scheme.

• From: Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs
• Updated: 5 April 2024

How to report sheep and goat movements to the Livestock Information Service.

• From: Animal and Plant Health Agency and 1 others
• Updated: 4 September 2023

Licences and authorisations to import genetic material, research and diagnostic samples, trade samples and display items, and some live animals and animal products.

• From: Animal and Plant Health Agency and 1 others
• Updated: 30 April 2024

List of priority habitats and species in England (‘Section 41 habitats and species’) for public bodies, landowners and funders to use for biodiversity conservation.

• From: Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs and 1 others
• Updated: 10 November 2022

Find out about the SFI actions for farmland wildlife on improved grassland, what land is eligible for each action, and what you need to do to get paid.

• From: Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs and 1 others
• Updated: 25 March 2024

Get a breed code to register a cattle, bison or buffalo birth.

• From: British Cattle Movement Service
• Updated: 18 March 2024

The variations effective from 00:01 Wednesday 15 May 2024

• From: Marine Management Organisation
• Updated: 10 May 2024

Register of nutrition and health claims that may be made in commercial communications in Great Britain.

• From: Department of Health and Social Care
• Updated: 8 April 2024

McCance and Widdowson’s 'composition of foods integrated dataset' on the nutrient content of the UK food supply.

• From: Closed organisation: Public Health England
• Updated: 19 March 2021

Guidance on the Animal and Plant Health Agency laboratory testing services and prices for animal disease diagnosis.

• From: Animal and Plant Health Agency
• Updated: 12 March 2024

Get help to improve water and air quality, and reduce flood risk on agricultural land.

• From: Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs and 2 others
• Updated: 21 March 2023

What you must do when you keep livestock or manage land.

• From: Animal and Plant Health Agency and 6 others
• Updated: 1 January 2024

An overview of what you can get paid to do under SFI, the actions you can do under an agreement for the SFI 2023 offer, applying for an agreement, eligible land, how agreements and payments work, and SFI actions we’ll introd…

• From: Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs and 1 others
• Updated: 22 April 2024

Find out how you could do the SFI actions for soils.

• From: Rural Payments Agency
• Updated: 10 August 2023

Find out what a composite product is, and how to import or move composite products from the EU to Great Britain.

• From: Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs
• Updated: 30 April 2024