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Details on how to dispose of your unwanted distress flares.
Licensing guidance, good practice on firearms law, and forms for applying for approvals under the law.
Information on how businesses can offer a flare disposal service.
Controls under the Firearms (Northern Ireland) Order 2004, prohibited weapons, applications for removal of prohibition and making an appeal.
This guidance summarises the requirements, controls and sanctions that Border Force applies to firearms and offensive weapons when they are imported into the UK.
This project reviewed data on how well waste industrial gases are broken down by burning in flares.
Following initial funding from the Defence And Security Accelerator (DASA) to help get it off the ground, Flare Bright has won contracts from leading aerospace companies, the UK Ministry of Defence and the United States Department of Defense.
Know which licence or certificate you must have to restrain, stun or kill animals which are not for human consumption, and how to carry out these operations.
Permitting of flares at onshore oil and gas sites, EU emissions trading system (ETS) and flares, and best available techniques (BAT) to design and operate the flaring system.
Guidance and additional measures relating to Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2015/2403.
List of all UK Ministry of Defence (MOD) firing times for military ranges.
This Marine Information Note (MIN) outlines the changes to HM Coastguard's provision of a flare disposal service from 31 December 2022.
Rules on restraining methods, stunning pens, captive bolt, gas and electrical stunning equipment, bleeding animals and shackling and hoisting animals.
This series brings together firearms guidance and application forms.
Environment Agency enforcement position on when you can use a backup flare to burn biogas from exempt anaerobic digestion plants.
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