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Find out how new woodland can enhance landscape character as well as provide benefits to woodland owners and society.
The laboratory provides diagnostic microbiological testing for the examination of food, water and environmental samples.
What you need to do to manage your England Woodland Creation Offer (EWCO) agreement, meet the requirements and claim payments.
Find out what visitors can and can't do on greens and how to maintain and de-register your land as an owner or local authority.
Information to help businesses understand how competition law applies to environmental sustainability agreements.
Check if you'll need an import licence and what import duty you'll need to pay when importing certain agricultural goods and food from outside the UK.
Apply for a specific licence to freeze or move germinal product from susceptible animals in bluetongue zones.
How to spot Aujeszky’s disease, what to do if you suspect it and measures to prevent its spread.
How to apply for a licence to capture, transport and re-release beavers or modify or remove beaver dams, burrows and lodges at any time of year.
What you must do when sheep and goats arrive for slaughter, including identification checks, and recording and reporting movements.
Rules on using a geographical indication (GI) scheme logo to mark a registered protected food or drink name.
Find all the documents, data and maps that make up the South East river basin district river basin management plan.
Water companies in England and Wales can use this service to submit an incident action plan for a dry day spill to the Environment Agency.
Find out the benefits of planting trees, including funding and support available to create woodland in England.
Yearly intervention plans are produced for oil and gas operations based on the OPRED inspection strategy. Enforcement activities for the breach of environmental regulations is based on the OPRED enforcement policy.
How to manage the health and welfare of poultry during transport, at market and during slaughter.
Spreading slurry and milk on agricultural land: Environment Agency advice in exceptional circumstances such as extreme weather.
Use this whistleblowing form to report an environmental issue by your employer.
Guidance on intensified official controls and imposed checks at the EU border. Understand what happens, who to contact and what you need to do.
Standard rules to operate an asbestos waste transfer station.
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