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Government departments - United Kingdom

• Directgov (replacing UK Online)
• Cabinet Office
• UK Resilience - guide to emergencies
• Department for Communities and Local Government (formerly ODPM)
• Department for Education and Skills
• Department for Transport
• Department of Health
• Department of Trade and Industry
  • Business Link
  • GlobalWatchOnline
  • Joint Environmental Markets Unit
  • Office of Science and Technology
  • UK Trade & Investment
  • UK Foresight
• Food Standards Agency
• Foreign and Commonwealth Office
• EU & Economic Section, British Embassy, Berlin
• Forestry Commission
• Health & Safety Executive
  • HSE Direct
• HM Revenue and Customs
• Trade Information Service
• Email Alert Service - Register here to receive relevant trade alerts to your mailbox
• HM Treasury
  • Addingitup: improving analysis and modelling in central Government
• Home Office
• Number 10 site
• OnlineNI (Northern Ireland citizen portal)
• Welsh Assembly Government
• Scottish Executive

Other United Kingdom agriculture, environment and rural affairs departments

• Northern Ireland - Department of Agriculture & Rural Development Northern Ireland (DARDNI)
Department of Agriculture and Rural Development (DARD) Science Service
• Department of the Environment, Northern Ireland
• Scottish Executive Environment and Rural Affairs Department
• Welsh Assembly Department for Environment, Planning & Countryside

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Non-departmental public bodies and agencies

• East of Scotland KTP centre
  (gateway for DTI's technology-transfer initiatiave, co-sponsored by Defra)
• English Nature
• Health Education Authority - Wired for Health website
• Health Protection Agency (formerly Public Health Laboratory Service)
• Radiation information
• Info4local
• Info4local email alert
- sign up to info4local's free e-mail alert service to receive the latest information from nearly 60 central government departments, agencies and public bodies.
• Information Tribunal
• Office of Public Sector Information (includes HMSO)
• Click-use licensing
• Rural Payments Agency
• Mind Body Soul - Wired for Health website - Phase II
• North Eastern Sea Fisheries Committee
• Ordnance Survey
• Planning Inspectorate
• Scottish Natural Heritage
• Sector Skills Development Agency
• Sea Fish Industry Authority
• South Wales Sea Fisheries Committee
• Welsh Consumer Council

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Parliaments and assemblies

• Houses of Parliament Home Page
• Commons Committee - Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
• House of Commons Debates - Hansard
• House of Lords Debates - Hansard
• National Assembly for Wales
• Northern Ireland Assembly
• Scottish Parliament
• European Parliament (EUROPARL)

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Government departments - Europe and overseas

• European Union countries: Environment/Agriculture/Rural Affairs ministries (or equivalent organisations)

Austrian Federal Chancellery Austria. Federal Environment Agency Austria. Legal Information System of the Republic of Austria (RIS) Belgium. Agricultural Research Centre - Ghent Cyprus. Ministry of Press and Information (includes stories on agriculture) Czech Republic. Ministry of Agriculture Denmark. Ministry of Food, Agriculture and Fisheries Estonia. Ministry of Agriculture Finland. Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry France. Ministry of Agriculture, Food, Fisheries and Rural Affairs France. Ministry of Ecology and Sustainable Development Germany. Federal Ministry of Consumer Protection, Food and Agriculture Germany. Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety Greece. Ministry of Rural Development and Food Hungary. Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development Ireland. Department of Agriculture and Food Ireland. Department of Communications, Marine and Natural Resources Ireland. Department of the Environment, Heritage and Local Government Teagasc - Irish Agriculture and Food Development Authority Italy. Ministero per le Politiche Agricole e Forestali (MiPAF) Latvia. Ministry of Agriculture Latvia. Ministry of Environment Lithuania. Ministry of Agriculture Lithuania. Ministry of Environment Luxembourg. Ministry of Environment Malta. Ministry for Rural Affairs and the Environment (includes Agriculture and Fisheries) Netherlands. Ministry of Agriculture, Nature and Food Quality
• Policy theme: The environment
Poland. Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development Portugal. Ministry of Agriculture, Rural Affairs and Fisheries Slovakia. Ministry of Agriculture Slovenia. Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Food Spain. Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries & Food Spain. Ministerio de Medio Ambiente (Environment) Sweden. Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Consumer Affairs

• Australia. Government Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry
• US Department of Agriculture

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European Union

• European Union
  • The European Union at a glance
• European commission
• Agriculture Directorate-General
• Environment Directorate-General
• Fisheries Directorate-General
• European Commission office in the UK
• European Environment Agency
  • EnviroWindows
    (European Environment Agency information "marketplace" for businesses, local authorities and their stakeholders)

International organisations

• Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
• Office International des Epizooties (OIE)
• United Nations Environment Programme
• World Health Organization (WHO)
• World Trade Organization (WTO)

Legislation and official publications

• UK legislation (OPSI)
• Official documents website (TSO)
• The Stationery Office Books (www.tso.co.uk/bookshop/)
• EU Publications Office
• Tenders Direct
  (endorsed by the European Commission)

Research organisations

• Institute for Animal Health
• National Centre for the Replacement, Refinement and Reduction of Animals in Research (NC3Rs)
• National Institute of Agricultural Botany
• Scottish Research Information System

Other links

• BASIS - accreditation scheme for advisers of pesticide use
• BSI (British Standards Institution) - Environmental Management Systems
• Climate Ark - climate change portal
• GEsource - a geography and environment resource for the HE and FE communities
• PSIgate Physical Sciences Information Gateway - a free online catalogue of Internet resources in the physical sciences
• Public Sector Benchmarking Service
• Social Enterprise Coalition (SEC)
  The Social Enterprise Coalition is the UK trade body that brings together all types of social enterprise to promote the sector and share knowledge.
• WiRE - Women in Rural Enterprise