Guidance: Guidelines for Statutory Drainage and Wastewater Management Plans (DWMPs)
Guidelines for sewerage undertakers in England and Wales as to how to prepare, publish and maintain their DWMP.
Guidance: Local nature recovery strategies: areas and responsible authorities
Map showing the local nature recovery strategy (LNRS) areas in England and the responsible authority who will lead the preparation of each strategy.
Policy paper: Call for comments: draft risk profile of a substance proposed as a persistent organic pollutant (POP) 2025
Requesting comments on a draft risk profile for polybrominated dibenzo-p-dioxins and dibenzofurans (including mixed polybrominated/chlorinated dibenzo-p-dioxins and dibenzofurans).
Single case of atypical BSE confirmed on a farm in Essex
A single case of atypical Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy (BSE) has been confirmed on a farm in Essex, the Animal and Plant Health Agency (APHA) confirmed today (Tuesday 20 May).
Decision: Gamebirds: decision to issue the GL43 gamebird general licence for 2025 to 2027
How Defra arrived at its decision to issue the GL43 gamebird release general licence, valid from 2 May 2025 to 1 February 2027, which replaces the version published on 31 May 2023.