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How to keep beef cattle and dairy cows on a farm, including your responsibilities for their food and housing.
Find out how to buy statutory biodiversity credits.
Guidance for the pharmaceutical industry on how to apply to vary a veterinary Marketing Authorisation (MA) or Homeopathic Remedy.
Find out what documents you need, and records you must keep, to meet animal welfare in transport requirements.
Find out when the Environment Agency classes a motor vehicle as waste and waste controls apply.
What happens when Rural Payments Agency field officers visit your holding, including checks on tagging, holding registers and movement records.
For each species, you can have up to 3 follow-ups on any number of herds or flocks, as part of your IAHW agreement.
How to meet expected welfare, health and safety standards in the horse industry if keeping horses for commercial purposes in the UK.
As a land owner, occupier or authorised person, use this general licence to kill or take certain species of wild birds to conserve wild birds, flora or fauna of conservation concern.
Environment Agency regulatory position on the treatment and disposal of invasive non-native plants and associated soil and materials.
Find out about eligibility and requirements for the medium wildlife box item.
This review proposes guidelines to improve population health and raise awareness of selected volatile organic compounds (VOCs) in UK homes and offices.
A carbon budget places a restriction on the total amount of greenhouse gases the UK can emit over a 5-year period. The UK is the first country to set legally binding carbon budgets.
How to trial new operating models and technologies at regulated facilities.
How to trade or move CITES-listed specimens through designated UK ports and airports.
How to apply for certification, the register of growers and fees for crop and tuber inspections under the Seed Potato Classification Scheme (SPCS).
Rules for exporting or moving organic food, feed and seed from Great Britain (England, Scotland and Wales) and Northern Ireland.
Standard rules for mobile plant treating wastes to produce soil, soil substitutes and aggregate.
This page provides an overview of the UK Emissions Trading Scheme (UK ETS), who it applies to, and the first steps for participants looking to engage with the scheme.
How the Ministry of Justice is embedding sustainability throughout our estate and operations.
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