Corporate information: Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs – Statistics at Defra
We publish national and official statistics relating to the environment, rural communities, food, farming and biosecurity.
Form: Habitats regulations assessment: derogation notice
Competent authorities must give notice of their decision to allow a plan or project that has an adverse effect on a European site to go ahead.
Detailed guide: Duty to protect, conserve and restore European sites
Competent authorities must take action to help protect, conserve and restore the protected habitats and species of European sites.
Detailed guide: Habitats regulations assessments: protecting a European site
How a competent authority must decide if a plan or project proposal that affects a European site can go ahead.
Detailed guide: Special Nature Conservation Orders and stop notices
When you get a Special Nature Conservation Order (SNCO) and how to challenge it, what a stop notice means, and get consent for restricted activities that affect European sites.