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How to assess sector-specific planning applications that could affect air quality on a protected site.
Services provided and contact details for Veterinary Investigation Centres (VICs) and surveillance pathology partners in England and Wales.
How to legally kill your own poultry, cattle, pigs, sheep, goats, rabbits and hares to eat at home.
The T11 exemption allows you to repair, refurbish or dismantle various types of WEEE so that the whole WEEE item or any parts can be reused for their original purpose or recovered.
Guidance for egg packers on grading eggs as Class A or Class B in Great Britain and Northern Ireland.
This guidance describes how to define an area benefitting from FCERM investment and how to count the properties within it.
Use this service to find out the rules, and the pest or disease risks for importing plants, plant products or seeds to Great Britain (England, Scotland and Wales) for commercial use.
Find out if and by when you need to apply for a medium combustion plant directive (MCPD) environmental permit to meet air quality requirements.
Find out how much nitrogen you can use on your land and how to plan and record your fertiliser use in a nitrate vulnerable zone (NVZ).
Check if you need an Article 10 certificate for commercial use of endangered species on the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES) list.
What you must do to manage odour when you apply for, change (vary) or hold an environmental permit.
How to contact the VMD for specific services or enquiries.
How to solve a pest problem with foxes, moles and mink using traps, snares and other methods.
What you need to do if you keep, grow, find or sell certain invasive plant species and your responsibilities to prevent their spread.
Information for developers and local planning authorities explaining statutory biodiversity credits, and the process of buying them.
S1 waste exemption lets you store certain waste in secure containers at a site separate to where it was produced, before transporting to another site for recovery.
Find out about eligibility and requirements for the feasibility study item.
Quality and labelling rules for growing, packing, distributing, importing and selling fresh fruit and vegetables.
Find out about eligibility and requirements for the create or restore ponds up to 2 hectares item.
The signs of bluetongue virus, how you must report it and what happens when you do.
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