- Guidance: UK border control posts: animal and animal product imports 13/12/2023
Find an approved UK border control post (BCP) to check the animals, animal products or high-risk food and feed of non-animal origin in your consignment.
- Statistics: Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs – Statistics at Defra 13/12/2023
We publish national and official statistics relating to the environment, rural communities, food, farming and biosecurity.
- Statutory guidance: Gamebirds: licence to release common pheasants or red-legged partridges on certain European sites or within 500m of their boundary (GL43) 13/12/2023
Owners or occupiers of land, or people authorised by them, can use this general licence to release common pheasants or red-legged partridges on certain European sites or within their 500m buffer zones.
- Guidance: Medium combustion plant: when you need a permit 13/12/2023
Find out if and by when you need to apply for a medium combustion plant directive (MCPD) environmental permit to meet air quality requirements.
- National Statistics: Latest UK egg statistics 13/12/2023
Quarterly UK statistics about eggs.
- Guidance: Bird flu (avian influenza): how to prevent it and stop it spreading 13/12/2023
Biosecurity and hygiene standards to keep birds safe from bird flu (avian influenza).
- Guidance: Egg marketing standards 13/12/2023
How to market eggs, including rules on registration, egg marking, salmonella control and egg marketing inspections in England and Wales.
- Form: Poultry and other captive birds: registration rules and forms 13/12/2023
How and when you must register as a bird keeper (including for any birds you keep as pets).
- Form: Apply for a county parish holding (CPH) number 13/12/2023
Apply online for a CPH number for land or buildings you’ll use to keep livestock, including those kept as pets, in England.
- Official Statistics: UK and England soil nutrient balances, 2022 13/12/2023
Soil nutrient balances.
- Guidance: Register as a keeper of less than 50 poultry or other captive birds 13/12/2023
Register to keep up to 49 birds, including any you’re keeping as pets.
- National Statistics: Emissions of air pollutants 13/12/2023
An annual publication covering the emissions of some important air pollutants.
