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Your responsibilities and rules to follow for watercourses on or near your property, and permissions you need to do work around them.
How to change details of your environmental permit, transfer it to somebody else or cancel it.
What you must do to avoid harming birds and when you’ll need a licence.
How to apply for a Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES) permit to move or trade endangered species.
How to safely and legally dispose of dead farm animals and horses.
Find out what documents you need, and records you must keep, to meet animal welfare in transport requirements.
Legal standards for labelling and composition of food products such as bottled water, milk and meat.
Annual laboratory confirmed UK sightings of the yellow-legged hornet, also known as Asian hornet (Vespa velutina).
The signs of bluetongue virus and how you must report it in sheep, cattle and other livestock.
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.
Find out about eligibility and requirements for the sheep netting item.
What you need to do to buy, sell or hire out items made of or containing ivory in the UK.
The S2 waste exemption allows you to store specific waste at a secure intermediate site, separate to where the waste was produced, before transportation to another site for recovery.
A FETF grant for help to buy items that improve productivity, manage slurry and improve animal health and welfare.
Find out about eligibility and requirements for the fencing item.
How a competent authority must decide if a plan or project proposal that affects a European site can go ahead.
Find out if you can remove or work on countryside hedgerows.
How councils assess and deal with nuisance odours from industrial, trade and business premises.
Get paid to manage land sustainably to benefit the environment and support food production: find out if your land is eligible, select and apply for SFI actions.
Find out about eligibility and requirements for the planting new hedges item.
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