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Press release: UK fishing industry to benefit from cutting-edge technology to help manage fish stocks

Use of cameras, gear sensors and GPS units will help improve the sustainability of UK fish stocks.

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Press release: Record number of new bathing sites get the go ahead

Dozens of new bathing water sites in England have been designated ahead of the 2024 bathing season in the government’s

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Consultation outcome: Bathing waters: proposed designation of 27 new bathing waters in England

Seeking views on the proposal to designate 27 sites in England as bathing waters.

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Guidance: Bathing waters: apply to designate or de-designate

Guidance and application forms to designate or de-designate a coastal or inland water as a bathing water.

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Press release: Battle against pests and pathogens stepped up with new funding for national tree health laboratory

£4 million to expand world-leading laboratories to improve UK biosecurity and tackle emerging threats to tree health

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Guidance: Radioactive substances legislation: scope and exemptions

Guidance on interpreting the legislation on radioactive substances in England, Northern Ireland and Wales.

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Speech: Environment Secretary speech at Farmers Weekly Transition Live Event

At the Farmers Weekly Transition Live Event, Environment Secretary Steve Barclay gave a speech outlining the support available from government

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Guidance: Animals, animal products and HRFNAO imports: authorised border control posts in the UK

Find an approved UK border control post (BCP) to check the animals, animal products or high-risk food and feed of

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Policy paper: Independent review into labour shortages in the food supply chain: government response

The government’s response to the recommendations made by the independent review into labour shortages in the food supply chain.

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Consultation outcome: Exemptions and statutory guidance for simpler recycling in England

Seeking views on proposed exemptions relating to the collection of recyclable waste in England and statutory guidance for the simpler

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Press release: Government ensures long-term certainty for food labour needs

The government has set out plans to make the UK food supply chain most cutting-edge in the world

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Policy paper: UK 5-year action plan for antimicrobial resistance 2024 to 2029

The UK’s second 5-year national action plan setting out ambitions and actions for the next 5 years in support of

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Consultation outcome: Simpler recycling in England: additional policies

Seeking views on additional policies which will help us implement simpler recycling services.

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Press release: New five-year plan to combat antimicrobial resistance

The government has announced its new National Action Plan on antimicrobial resistance to protect people and animals from the risk

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Decision: Coastal access: Section 52 notice for the Isle of Wight

These notices set out the Secretary of State’s decisions to approve proposals for improving coastal access on the Isle of

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Transparency data: Bovine TB: compensation value tables

Compensation value tables for cattle culled to control spread of bovine TB, brucellosis or enzootic bovine leukosis.

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Policy paper: Call for comments: draft risk management evaluation of a substance proposed as a persistent organic pollutant (POP) 2024

Requesting comments on a draft risk management evaluation for chlorpyrifos, a chemical substance proposed as a POP to the UN’s

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Guidance: Extended producer responsibility for packaging: who is affected and what to do

How UK organisations that supply or import packaging should comply with extended producer responsibility (EPR) for packaging.

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Guidance: Countries Great Britain will accept verifiable PDF GB health certificates from

Where Great Britain will accept verifiable PDF GB health certificates from, to import live animals and animal products through TRACES

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Guidance: Check import risk categories, inspection rates and related rules for animals and animal products imported from the EU to Great Britain

Import risk categories under the Border Target Operating Model (BTOM) for animals or animal products you’re importing from the EU,

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Press release: Government makes next set of crucial changes to improve biosecurity at UK’s trade border

Today (30 April 2024), the Government is strengthening its trade border to better detect pests and diseases from imported products.

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Guidance: Import plants and plant products from non-EU countries to Great Britain

How to import plants, fruit, vegetables, cut flowers, trees, seeds and used agricultural machinery from non-EU countries to Great Britain

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Guidance: Check import risk categories, inspection rates and related rules for animals and animal products imported from non-EU countries to Great Britain

Import risk categories under the Border Target Operating Model (BTOM) for animals or animal products you’re importing from a non-EU

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Form: Natural England’s nutrient mitigation scheme for developers

Apply to buy nutrient mitigation credits from Natural England to offset nutrient pollution from housing development.

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Research: Genetically Modified Organisms: Rothamsted Research (23/R08/01)

Inviting representation on an application from Rothamsted Research to release a genetically modified organism. Reference 23/R08/01.

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Form: Template commercial document for imports of animal by-products to Great Britain

Suppliers and transporters of animal by-products (ABP) can use this template to create a commercial document to accompany ABP being

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Policy paper: Food Data Transparency Partnership: agri-food environmental data

This paper sets out progress and priorities for tackling agri-food system environmental data challenges through the Food Data Transparency Partnership.

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Guidance: Organisation details: how to create your file for extended producer responsibility (EPR) for packaging

This guidance explains how to report organisation details for extended producer responsibility (EPR) for packaging. This is a legal obligation

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Official Statistics: A to Z Index, Statistical Digest of Rural England

A to Z Index for the eight thematic reports that make up the Statistical Digest of Rural England.

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Guidance: Apply for an exemption from avian influenza disease control restrictions

Use this service to apply for a licence that exempts you from avian influenza disease control restrictions.

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Consultation outcome: Wet wipes containing plastic: proposed ban on the manufacture, supply and sale

The UK Government, Welsh Government, Scottish Government and the Department of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs for Northern Ireland want

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Form: EU, Iceland, Liechtenstein, Norway and Switzerland ship supplies declaration

From 30 April 2024, use this form for ship supplies declarations for goods from the EU, Iceland, Liechtenstein, Norway and

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National Statistics: Historical statistics notices on poultry and poultry meat production, 2024

Previously published copies of the monthly National Statistics publications on the activity of UK hatcheries and UK poultry slaughterhouses.

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Statutory guidance: The Retained EU Law (Revocation and Reform) Act 2023 (Environment, Food and Rural Affairs) (Revocation) Regulations 2024

This SI revokes 73 pieces of Assimilated Law.

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Guidance: Register a biodiversity site and allocate to a development

Find out what to do if you need to register a biodiversity gain site and record allocation of off-site biodiversity

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Guidance: Record allocation of off-site biodiversity gains to a development

Find out what to do and how much it costs to record allocation of off-site biodiversity gains to a development.

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Policy paper: Bovine TB: UK Chief Veterinary Officer’s advice on early termination of badger disease control areas

The UK Chief Veterinary Officer’s advice on early termination intensive cull licences issued in 2021 and 2022 after 2 or

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Press release: Government opens fund to support farmers affected by flooding

Fund will support farmers who suffered uninsurable damage to their land due to flooding earlier this year with grants of

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Correspondence: Pollack compensation scheme: ministerial direction

Letters requesting and confirming the ministerial direction relating to the pollack compensation scheme.

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Guidance: Common user charge: rates and eligibility

Common user charge rates and how the charge will apply to imports entering Great Britain through the Port of Dover

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Press release: Crackdown on water firms sees millions invested into local action

Up to £11 million from water company fines and penalties will be reinvested to directly improve the water environment.

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Correspondence: Environmental permits and waste incineration facilities: ministerial direction

Ministerial direction relating to determination of environmental permits for new waste incineration facilities in England.

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Statutory guidance: Animal activities licensing: statutory guidance for local authorities

Guidance for local authority inspectors on licensing activities involving animals.

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Guidance: Developers: get environmental advice on your planning proposals

How developers can get advice on Nationally Significant Infrastructure Projects (NSIPs) and applications for planning, permission in principle and technical

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Consultation outcome: Cat and dog microchipping consultation

We are seeking your views on changes to the microchipping regulations. We want to make it easier to reunite lost

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Press release: More lost pets to return home as microchipping system reformed

Reforms will help reunite thousands of lost or stolen animals every year and deter pet theft

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Statistical data set: Agricultural land ownership and tenure in England

Detailed annual statistics on the ownership and tenure structure of agricultural land at 1 June in England.

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Press release: Environment Agency raising flood risk awareness in Forest of Dean

Environment Agency officers will be talking to residents in Lydney and Cinderford about the steps they can take to prepare

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Guidance: Packaging data: what to collect for extended producer responsibility

A guide to collecting data about your packaging. This is for UK organisations affected by extended producer responsibility (EPR) for

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Policy paper: Fishing opportunities for British fishing boats

This sets out fishing opportunities for British fishing boats for certain fish stocks and groups of fish stocks.

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Guidance: Lists of recognised breed societies and breeding operations

Recognised breed societies for bovine, ovine, porcine and caprine species, and recognised breed operations for hybrid breeding pigs.

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Guidance: SFI actions for farmland wildlife on arable and horticultural land

Find out about the SFI actions for farmland wildlife on arable and horticultural land, what land is eligible for each

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Guidance: SFI actions for farmland wildlife on improved grassland

Find out about the SFI actions for farmland wildlife on improved grassland, what land is eligible for each action, and

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Guidance: SFI actions for integrated pest management

Find out about the SFI actions for integrated pest management, what land is eligible for each action, and what you

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Press release: New £295m for councils to introduce weekly food waste collections

Up to £295m in capital funding for local authorities to roll out weekly food waste collections

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Guidance: Import compound products from the EU to Great Britain

Find out what compound products are, and how to import or move them from the EU and Northern Ireland to

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Policy paper: Air quality plan for nitrogen dioxide (NO2) in UK (2017): air quality directions

UK plan for tackling roadside nitrogen dioxide concentrations supporting document: Environment Act 1995 air quality directions.

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Guidance: Enter a legal agreement for biodiversity net gain

How land managers, developers, local planning authorities and responsible bodies can enter into a legal agreement for biodiversity net gain.

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Guidance: Listed diseases of fish, molluscs and crustacea and their status

Guidance on listed diseases of fish and shellfish and their status in England and Wales, including what happens if a

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Press release: Rural community green spaces to be rejuvenated through new government investment

Fund of up to £7 million will boost access to nature and support rural communities across England to become more

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Statutory guidance: Gamebirds: licence to release common pheasants or red-legged partridges on specified special protection areas or within 500m of their boundary (GL45) 

As a landowner, occupier or authorised person, use this general licence to release common pheasants or red-legged partridges on specified

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Guidance: European Structural and Investment Funds: useful resources

List of beneficiaries and glossary for organisations running European Regional Development Fund and European Social Fund projects.

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Press release: Thousands of species set to benefit from new government funding

20 new nature projects across the country will receive funding to create and restore critical habitat areas equivalent in total

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