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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.
Find out if you qualify for ESOS and how to comply.
Apply for funding for a vet to visit your farm to reduce endemic diseases and conditions, increase animal productivity and improve animal welfare.
How to apply for a Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES) permit to move or trade endangered species.
What counts as a bird gathering, and how to notify the Animal and Plant Health Agency.
How to meet the general binding rules if your septic tank or small sewage discharge treatment plant releases (discharges) waste water to a surface water.
Advice and guidance on protecting animal welfare.
Illustrative waste disposal fees for Year 2 (2026 to 2027) that will be charged to large producers obligated under Extended producer responsibility (EPR) for packaging.
You can use the pre-application advice service to make sure your permit application is correct.
Types of waste and the maximum amounts you can use in building projects, landscaping or drainage works under a U1 exemption.
Find out about eligibility and requirements for the planting new hedges item.
When and how to measure a habitat or development’s impact on biodiversity.
When you need consent for a proposed operation or management change on land in a SSSI and how to apply.
Your responsibilities and rules to follow for watercourses on or near your property, and permissions you need to do work around them.
What you need to do to buy, sell or hire out items made of or containing ivory in the UK.
Find out the information you must give to customers on food products and how to give it.
Local authority regulators must use this process guidance note 5/2 (25) to assess applications and write permits for crematoria.
How councils deal with complaints about smoke from premises that's a statutory nuisance, smoke that's exempt and how smoke can be assessed.
A short market-sounding exercise to update the Department’s understanding of the Humber region’s carbon capture projects.
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