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Competent authorities must take action to help protect, conserve and restore the protected habitats and species of European sites.
Find out about current competent person schemes to self-certify certain types of building work if you work in building as an installer.
Read the Council Directive 2003/48/EC of 3 June 2003 on taxation of savings income in the form of interest payments.
Explains planning controls relating to the storage of hazardous substances in England and how to handle development proposals around hazardous establishments.
ARSAC advises the licensing authorities on applications from practitioners, employers and researchers who want to use radioactive substances on people. ARSAC works with the Department of Health and Social Care .
How a competent authority must decide if a plan or project proposal that affects a European site can go ahead.
Results from the government’s monitoring of pesticide residues in food, reviewed by the Expert Committee on Pesticide Residues in Food (PRiF).
This advice is intended to explain the generic aspects of the public bodies involvement with the applicant and the Planning Inspectorate during the Nationally Significant Infrastructure Project (NSIP) process.
Guidance primarily aimed at local responders covering some humanitarian issues that may arise during the recovery phase of an emergency in the UK.
Joint statement on the 58th Session of the UN Commission on Population and Development delivered by Sierra Leone on Monday 7 April 2025, on behalf of Albania, Andorra, Armenia, Australia, Austria, Belgium, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Brazil, Bulgaria, Cabo Verde, Cambodia,...
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