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  • How Defra arrived at its decision to issue the modified GL45 gamebird general licence, valid from 7 June 2024 to 1 February 2025, which replaces the version published on 22 March 2024.

    First published during the 2022 to 2024 Sunak Conservative government

  • Seeking views on what general licences to kill or take wild birds should cover. We're also asking for evidence on issues like record keeping.

    First published during the 2019 to 2022 Johnson Conservative government

  • The main points and processes of the 2019 Regulations, which amend the Habitats Regulations 2017 that transpose the Habitats and Wild Birds Directives, to make them operable from 1 January 2021.

    First published during the 2019 to 2022 Johnson Conservative government

  • Seeking views about the recent withdrawal of the three general licences (GL04, GL05 and GL06) for the management of wild birds.

    First published during the 2016 to 2019 May Conservative government