Research and analysis: ACRE advice: application for a trial of GM camelina (18/R08/01)

These documents are the advice of the Advisory Committee on Releases to the Environment (ACRE) to government on an application from Rothamsted Research to carry out a trial of Camelina sativa, which has been genetically modified to produce omega-3 fatty acids, wax esters, and a pigment in its seed.

The committee advised that the risks to human health and the environment from this trial are extremely low.

Notice: The East Suffolk Internal Drainage Board: application made to abstract water

The Environment Agency consults the public on certain applications for the abstraction and impoundment of water.

These notices explain:

what the application is about
which Environment Agency offices you can visit to see the application documents on the public register
when you need to comment by

Notice: E H Wrinch and Son: applications made to abstract water

The Environment Agency consults the public on certain applications for the abstraction and impoundment of water.

These notices explain:

what the application is about
which Environment Agency offices you can visit to see the application documents on the public register
when you need to comment by

Highlands and Islands face post-Brexit challenges

A senior agricultural economist at SRUC has helped to produce a new report highlighting the challenges that could face farming and crofting communities in the Highlands and Islands, post Brexit.

International treaty: [MS No.6/2018] Amendments of the texts and annexes to the 1999 Protocol to Abate Acidification, Eutrophication and Ground-level Ozone

Published title: Amendment of annex I to the 1999 Protocol to Abate Acidification, Eutrophication and Ground-level Ozone [and] Amendment of the text of and annexes II to IX to the 1999 Protocol to Abate Acidification, Eutrophication and Ground-level Ozone and the addition of new annexes X and XI