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Read the guidance to help you claim payment for Countryside Stewardship agreements that started before 2025, and for capital items.
How local authorities must deal with fly-tipping and the penalties they can charge.
Apply to import a medicine for veterinary use into the UK.
Environmental regulations and guidance on offshore oil and gas exploration and production offshore gas unloading and storage and offshore carbon dioxide storage activities
Find out when you must charge a minimum of 10 pence for single-use carrier bags, bags you're not required to charge for and the records you must keep and submit.
Find out about eligibility and requirements for the check dams item.
How growers and traders can get authorised as a professional operator to issue plant passports and when you need to be authorised.
How to import or move live animals and germinal products from the EU to Great Britain.
How to import animals and animal products to Great Britain (England, Scotland and Wales), the Channel Islands and the Isle of Man from non-EU countries.
How to identify and classify waste that contains POPs.
When you need to do an environmental risk assessment, when the Environment Agency will do it for you, and how to do a risk assessment.
Find an approved UK border control post (BCP) to check the animals, animal products or high-risk food and feed of non-animal origin (HRFNAO) in your consignment.
A closed FETF grant for help to buy items that improve productivity, manage slurry and improve animal health and welfare.
Rules you must follow, who’s responsible, when to notify the Environment Agency and what to do if you get an enforcement notice.
How to create a sketch map to register land or update the land details on your digital maps on the Rural Payments service.
How to import plants, fruit, vegetables, cut flowers, trees, seeds and used agricultural machinery to Great Britain (England, Scotland and Wales) from the EU, Liechtenstein and Switzerland.
The minimum standards that zoos are expected to meet.
How to legally kill your own poultry, cattle, pigs, sheep, goats, rabbits and hares to eat at home.
How developers can get advice on Nationally Significant Infrastructure Projects (NSIPs) and applications for planning, permission in principle and technical details consent.
Amend the country parish holding details held by the Rural Payments Agency.
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