Policy paper

Gamebirds: decision to issue the GL43 gamebird general licence for 2023 to 2025

How Defra arrived at its decision to issue the GL43 gamebird general licence, valid from 31 May 2023 to 30 May 2025.

• From: Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs
• Published: 31 May 2023

This was published under the 2022 to 2024 Sunak Conservative government

Applies to England

Documents

Defra’s 2023 Habitats Regulations Assessment (HRA) and decision to issue general licence GL43: ‘Gamebirds: licence to release common pheasants or red-legged partridges on certain European sites or within 500m of their boundary’

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Annex A – Natural England’s 2023 statutory advice to Defra – 27 January 2023

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Annex B – Natural England’s 2023 addendum to its 2021 shadow HRA

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Background and other supporting documents

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Details

Defra’s gamebirds general licence (GL43) allows an authorised person to release common pheasants or red-legged partridges on certain European sites or within their 500m buffer zones.

These documents explain how Defra considered the evidence and came to the decision to issue this general licence for 2023 to 2025.

Published 31 May 2023