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A

• A to Z of adaptation
• Abandoned vehicles
• Abbreviations and acronyms
• About Defra
• About this site
• Access to genetic resources and benefit sharing (ABS)
• Access to information
• Access to justice
• Access to countryside and coast
  • see also: Conservation walks and rides*
• Accessibility
• Accounts, resource
• Adapting to climate change
• Advice by sector
• Advisory Committee on Releases to the Environment (ACRE)
• Affordable rural housing
• African Swine Fever
• Agencies – Executive agencies and non-Departmental Public Bodies
• Aggregates Levy Sustainability Fund
• Agricultural census
• Agricultural employment and wages
• Agricultural holding (CPH) numbers
• Agricultural Land Classification
• Agricultural Land Tribunals
• Agricultural nitrate pollution
• Agricultural policy
• Agricultural Wages Board (AWB)
• Agriculture in the United Kingdom (annual report)
• Agri-environment schemes
• Agri-industrial materials
• Air, ozone, F gases
• Air quality
• Anaerobic Digestion
• Animal genetic resources
• Animal By-products Regulations
• Animal diseases, animal health
• Animal Health
• Animal Health and Veterinary Laboratories Agency
• Animal Health and Welfare Board for England
• Animal Health Bill (Draft)
• Animal health and welfare strategy
• Animal identification and tracing
• Animal movements
• Animal pathogens
• Animal welfare
• [Defra] Annual report (Departmental report)
• Anthrax
• Appointments and recruitment
• Aquaculture
• Aquatic Animal Health and Movements
• Arable crops
  • Sugar
• Areas of Outstanding Natural Beauty
• Ash tree dieback (Chalara)
• Aujeszky’s disease
• Authenticity and standards, Food
• [Defra] Autumn performance report
• Avian influenza

B

• Babesiosis
• Badgers and TB
• Bags – carrier bags
• Balai Directive
• Barker review of planning *
• Basic Horticultural Statistics
• Bat conservation
• Bathing water
• Batteries
• BCMS (British Cattle Movement Service)
• Bee health
• Beef labelling
• Beef cattle schemes
• Behaviour, environmental
• Bern Convention *
• Better Regulation
• Big Tree Plant (the)
• Biodiversity, plants and animals
  • Biodiversity Strategy for England
  • Marine biodiversity
  • Review of Non-native Species Policy
  • United Nations Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD)
• Bio-energy
• Biosecurity (animal health)
• Biotechnology
• Bird flu
• Bluetongue
• Boiler Efficiency Database *
• Bonn Convention
• Border Inspection Posts
• Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy (BSE)
• Bovine TB
• BREW (Business Resource Efficiency and Waste Programme)
• Bridleways
• British Cattle Movement Service (BCMS)
• Bringing food into the UK
• Brucellosis
• BSE
• Business advice for farmers
• Business and sustainability
• Business continuity for Defra staff
• Business Plan (Defra’s)
• Byelaws
  • Country Parks, National Parks and Common Land
  • Coastal

C

• Camping certificates
• Canals
• Campaigns
• CAP payments search
• CAP Reform
• Caravan exemption certificates
• Careers in Defra
• Carrier bags
• Catchment sensitive farming
• Catering and food procurement
• Cattle
  • identification and movement
• Cave review – competition and innovation in water markets
• Centre for Environment, Fisheries and Aquaculture Science (CEFAS) *
• Cereals
  • Arable crops
  • Home Grown Cereals Authority (HGCA) *
• Chalara (ash tree dieback)
• Charging strategy [Farm regulation and charging strategy]
• Chemicals, pesticides and nanotechnology
• Chief Scientific Adviser
• Chief Veterinary Officer’s (CVO) annual report
• CITES (‘Washington’ Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Flora and Fauna)
• Circus animals
• Climate change
  • See also the Department of Energy and Climate Change website
• Classical Swine Fever (CSF)
• Clean livestock policy *
• Clean Neighbourhoods and Environment Act
• Climate change and agriculture
• Cloning of farmed animals
• Clothing
• Coastal defence
• Coastal issues
  • Coastal byelaws
  • Integrated Coastal Zone Management
• Code of good agricultural practice (COGAP)
• Commission for Rural Communities
• Common Agricultural Policy (CAP)
• Common Fisheries Policy (CFP)
• Common land
  • Byelaws
• Community halls for rural people
• Community waste sector
• Complaints about access to information
• Complaints procedure (Defra)
• Composting
• Conservation
  • Marine biodiversity
  • Wildlife and habitat
• Construction waste
• Consultations
• Consumption – see Sustainable Consumption and Production
• Consumers and animal health and welfare
• Contact us
• Contaminated land
• Contingency planning
  • Contingency plans (animal health)
• Continuity of business for Defra staff
• Copyright
• Corporate reports, finances and accounts
• Countryside issues
  • Countryside and Rights of Way Act 2000 (CROW)
• Countryside Stewardship Scheme *
• Country of origin labelling
• Country Walks *
• County Parish Holding (CPH) number
• Covent Garden Market
• Crematoria, mercury emissions from
• Cross compliance *
• Cryptosporidium *
• CSF
  • Catchment sensitive farming
  • Classical Swine Fever
• Curry report (report of Policy Commission on the Future of Farming and Food)
• Customer representatives

D

• DACTARI (Dog & Cat Travel and Risk Information)
• Dairy products
• Dairy Supply Chain Forum
• Dangerous dogs
• Dangerous wild animals
• Darwin Initiative
• Data Protection
  • Data Handling Guarantee
  • Requesting your personal data
• Deer tracing and identification
• Defra accessibility commitment
• Defra departmental report
• Defra Helpline
• Defra Inspectorates
  • Codes of practice
  • Complaints procedures
• Defra logo
• Defra organisation chart
• Defra staff advice in the event of an emergency
• Defra’s Business Plan
• Delivery bodies
  • Defra Delivery Landscape
  • Delivery Partnership Working, Governance and Sponsorship Guidance and Sponsorship of executive agencies and Non-Departmental Public Bodies (NDPBs)
• (Defra) Departmental report
• Department of Energy and Climate Change *
• Devolution
• Diffuse pollution of water
• Diseases (animal health)
• Diseases and pests (plant health)
• Directgov – ‘Environment and greener living’ section
• Disinfectants
• Disposing of animal by-products
• Diversification (ERDP schemes)
• Diversity
• Dogs
  • Dog fouling, barking, etc
  • Dangerous dogs
• Doha Development Agenda (WTO)
• Doing business with us – procurement
• Dolphins
• Draft Animal Health Bill
• Drainage
• Drinking water *
• Drought
• Dry cleaning updates

E

• Eco-design (of energy-using products) *
• Ecolabelling
• Eco-Management and Audit Scheme (EMAS)
• Economics
  • Economics of sustainable development (interdepartmental review)
• Ecosystem Markets Task Force
• Ecosystems services – what nature gives us
• Egg industry 
• Electronic Identification of Sheep (EID)
• Emergency planning
  • Defra staff advice in the event of an emergency
• Emissions factors
• Endangered species
• Endocrine disrupting substances in the environment
• Energy crops
  • Energy Crops Scheme
• Energy use in Defra
• Enforcement policy
• England Rural Development Programme (ERDP)
• England Implementation Group (animal health and welfare strategy)
• Entry Level Stewardship *
• The Environment
• Environment Agency*
  • EA sponsorship
• Environment for Europe Fund
• Environment for Europe (Kiev conference)
• Environment in your Pocket – annual statistics
• Environment and business
• Environmental Action Fund
• Environmental Awards *
• Environmental enforcement review
• Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA)
• Environmental information, access to
• Environmental Information Regulations
• Environmental liability
• Environmental performance
• Environmental permitting
• Environmental Protection Act 1990 *
• Environmental and wildlife statistics
• Environmental quality and pollution
• Environmental reporting
• Environmental risk
• Environmental Stewardship
• Environmental technologies
• Environmentally Sensitive Areas (ESAs) *
• Equal Opportunities
• Equine Infectious Anaemia
• Equine Viral Encephalomyelitis (EVE)
• ERDP schemes
• European Business Awards for the Environment
• EU Zootechnic legislation: Pedigree animals
• Evidence and Analysis Series
• Evidence Investment Strategy
• Executive agencies and non-Departmental Public Bodies

F

• Fallen stock
• Farm animal genetic resources
• Farm Animal Genetic Resources Committee
• Farm Animal Welfare Committee (FAWC)
• Farm animals
• Farm business advice
• Farm Business Survey
• Farm Environment Plan *
• Farm Health Planning
• Farm management accounting (farm business advice)
• Farm regulation review
• Farm waste
• Farm Woodland Premium Scheme
• Farm workers
• Farmer’s guide to planning system
• Farming Advice Service (FAS)
• Farming in the United Kingdom (annual statistics)
• Farming Link news alerts
• Farming management
• Fertilisers
  • MANure Nitrogen Evaluation Routine (MANNER)
• F gases (Fluorinated greenhouse gases)
• Fibre production
• Finance
  • resource accounts
• Financial Instruments for Fisheries Guidance (FIFG)
• Fish
  • conservation of stocks
  • trade *
• Fishing industry
  • Coastal Fisheries Offices (MMO) *
  • quotas
  • European fisheries fund
  • Illegal, Unreported and Unregulated (IUU) fishing
• Flood and Water Management Act 2010
• Flooding and coastal change
• Fluoride in water supplies
• Fluorinated greenhouse gases
• Fly-tipping
• Food and Farming
• Food and Environment Research Agency (FERA)
• Food labelling
• Food procurement, sustainable
• Food standards
• Foot and mouth disease
• Footpaths
• Forestry
  • Forestry Commission *
• Forms, publications and data
• Freedom of information
• Fresh Start farming initiative
• Freshwater Fish Directive
• Fruit and Vegetables Task Force

G

• Game licences
• Gangmasters
• Gender Equality Scheme
• Genetic resources for food and agriculture
  • Access to genetic resources and benefit sharing (ABS)
• Genetic modification (GM)
  • Advisory Committee on Releases to the Environment
• Geographic information
• Goat identification and movement
• Government Buying Standards
• Government Decontamination Service (GDS)
• Government Veterinary Journal (GVJ)* (formerly State Veterinary Journal)
• Government Veterinary Surgeons
• Grants and funding
• Grass burning
• Green claims code
• Green economy, green business
• Greenhouse gas conversion factors
• Groundwater
• Growing and crops
• Guidance for business on regulation
• Guidance for policy makers

H

• Habitats and Wild Birds Directives Implementation Review
• Haskins (Rural Delivery Review)
• Hazardous Substances Advisory Committee (HSAC)
• Hazardous waste
• Heather and grass burning
• Hedgerows
• Help
• Higher Level Stewardship *
• Hill Farm Allowance
• Holding (CPH) numbers
• Horizon scanning *
• Hormone (Endocrine) Disrupting Substances in the Environment
• Horses
• Horticultural code of practice (Helping to prevent the spread of invasive non-native species)
• Horticultural Marketing Inspectorate – now available on the Rural Payments Agency website
• How we work
• Hunting with dogs

I

• Identification and tracing of livestock
• Illegal trade in wildlife
• Impact Assessments
• Imports/exports – animals and animal products
• Incineration of waste
• Indicators of sustainable development
• Industrial crops
• Industrial emissions
• Information Asset Register
• Information requests
• Injurious weeds
• Inland waterways
• Inshore Fisheries and Conservation Authorities (IFCAs)
• INSPIRE – Infrastructure for Spatial Information in Europe (INSPIRE)
• Integrated Coastal Zone Management
• Integrated pollution control (IPC)
• International trade
  • World Trade Organization negotiations on agriculture
• Invasive non-native species

J

• Japanese knotweed*
• Jobs
• Joint nature conservation committee – Defra sponsorship

K

• Kiev Environment for Europe Conference

L

• Land and soil
• Land Cover Map *
• Land management and environment
• Land use planning
• Landfill
• Landscape protection
• Lead in old paint
• LERAPs (Local Environment Risk Assessment For Pesticides) *
• Levy Boards
• Library
• LIFE (EU Financial Instrument for the Environment)
• Light bulbs – compact fluorescent lamps
• LINK: farming & food LINK programmes
• Litter
• Livestock movements
• Local access forums (CROW)
• Local air quality management
• Local authority guidance on chemical, biological, radiological and nuclear (CBRN) decontamination
• Local environments
• Local government performance framework / indicators
• (Illegal) logging
• Location – UK Location Programme
• Logo (Defra logo)

M

• MAGIC – Multi-Agency Geographic Information for the Countryside *
• Making space for water
• Management Committee
• Manures
• Marine
• Marine Science Co-ordination Committee
• Mercury emissions from crematoria
• Meters – Energy use in Defra
• Milk
  • prices
  • quotas (RPA) *
• Minerals extraction
• Minimum fish sizes
• Ministers
  • Ministers’ speeches
• Miscanthus [energy crop]
• Mitigating climate change – Defra’s role
• Modernising rural delivery
• Muck In4Life*

N

• Nanotechnology
• National Fallen Stock Scheme
• National Nature Reserves (NNRs)
• National Parks
• National performance indicators
• National Scrapie Plan
• National Standing Committee – Farm Animal Genetic Resources (NSC FAnGR)
• National Wildlife Crime Intelligence Unit*
• Natura 2000
• Natural Capital Committee
• Natural England Sponsorship – see also the Natural England website*
• Natural environment and biodiversity
• Natural Environment White Paper
• Neonicotinoid insecticides
• Newcastle disease
• New entrants (farming)
• News
• Nitrate Vulnerable Zones
• Noise and nuisance
• Non-departmental public bodies (NDPBs)
• Non-Departmental Public Bodies reviews (Triennial Reviews)
• Non-native species
• Notifiable diseases (animal health)

O

• Observatory Programme
• Oil spills and dispersants *
• Oil storage – guidance on Control of Pollution (Oil Storage) (England) Regulations 2001
• Olives and olive oil
• Open country
• Open Government
• Openness & transparency – best practice for public bodies
• Operational research
• Organic farming and food
  • Organic Entry Level Stewardship *
• Organisation chart
• OSPAR Commission for the Protection of the Marine Environment of the North East Atlantic
• Over Thirty Month (OTM) rule and scheme
• Ozone

P

• Packaging waste
• Paints Directive
• Passports for horses
• Passports for pets (Pet Travel Scheme)
• Pathogens
• PAW (Partnership for Action against Wildlife Crime)
• Peat
• Peat Task Force – Advising government on Sustainable Growing Media
• Pedigree animals (EU Zootechnic legislation)
• Permitting Programme – Environmental Permitting Programme
• Performance targets
• Performance report & Departmental reports
• Personal data
  • Data Handling Guarantee
  • Requesting your personal data
  • Response record for handling requests for personal data
• Personal food imports
• Pest control
• Pesticides (Plant Protection Products)
• Pets and horses
  • Pets – DACTARI
  • PETS (Pet Travel Scheme)
• Phytophthora ramorum
• Pigs
  • identification and tracing
• Planning
  • Farmer’s guide to planning system
  • Land use
  • White paper *
• Plant health
• Plant Varieties & Seeds
• Plastic bags – carrier bags
• Poisoning of wildlife
  • Campaign against illegal poisoning of wildlife
• Policy Commission on the Future of Farming and Food
• Pollution
  • IPPC: a practical guide
  • Pollution prevention and control
  • Pollutant release and transfer register (PRTR)
• Potato ring rot
• Poultry industry
  • Great Britain Poultry Register
• Press releases
• Privacy
• Procurement
  • Procurement – selling to Defra
  • Procurement – sustainable food
• Producer responsibility (waste)
• Production – see Sustainable Consumption and Production
• Protected food names
• Protected or designated areas
• Protecting pets from cruelty
• PSA targets
• Public access to environmental information
• Public access to the countryside
• Public appointments
• Public bodies
  • Openness & transparency best practice
• Public rights of way
• Public sector food procurement
• Public Service Agreement targets
• Publication scheme
• Publications

Q

• Q fever
• Quarantine (animals)
• Questions you’re asking us

R

• Rabies
• Race Equality Scheme
• RADAR (Rapid Analysis and Detection of Animal-related Risk)
• Ragwort
• Ramsar Convention
• REACH (chemicals)
• Recreation
• Recruitment
• Recycling and waste
• Red Tape Challenge
• Register of environmental registers
• Regulation and charging strategy (Farm regulation and charging strategy)
• Regulatory Impact Assessments (RIAs) – now Impact Assessments
• Regulatory reviews
• Renewable energy – bio-energy sources
• Research (see Science)
• Reservoir safety (including research, and panel engineers)
• Resource accounts
• Responsibility and cost sharing
• Rio+20
• “Right to roam”
• Rights of way
• Risk
  • Environmental risk
• Roadmaps – environmental impacts
• Rural and Countryside
• Royal Commission on Environmental Pollution
• Rural Climate Change Forum
• Rural development
• Rural Development Programme for England (RDPE)
• Rural Evidence Hub
• Rural Payments Agency (RPA) *
• Rural statistics

S

• Salmonella
• Schmallenberg virus
• Science, economics, statistics and research
• Science Advisory Council
• Scrapie
• Sea fisheries statistics *
• Sea flooding and coastal erosion
• Seed certification
• Selling to Defra sustainably
• Set aside
• Sewage
• Sewers
• Shared Spatial Information Services (SPIRE)
• Sheep dip – use and disposal
• Sheep schemes
• Sheep tagging: electronic identification (EID)
• Shellfish Waters Directive
• Shoreline Management Plans
• Short rotation coppice [energy crop] *
• Single Payment Scheme
• Sites of Special Scientific Interest (SSSI)
• Site Waste Management Plans
• Smallholdings
• Smoke control areas (Air quality)
• Social Enterprise (Third Sector)
• Social research
• Soil
  • Code of good agricultural practice for the protection of soil (Soil code)
  • Good practice guide for handling soils
  • Soil Action Plan
  • Soil indicators
• South Downs inquiry
• Speeches (Ministers’)
• Specified Animal Pathogens Order (SAPO)
• Spending reviews
• SPIRE
• Spongiform Encephalopathy Advisory Committee (SEAC) *
• Sponsorship – guidance and sponsorship of executive agencies and Non-Departmental Public Bodies (NDPBs)
• Staff advice in the event of an emergency
• State aid
• Statistics
  • Environmental statistics
• Structural funds (EU)
• Subject Access Requests
• Sugar
• Summary of UK food and farming (agricultural quick statistics)
• Suppliers’ web site
• Sustainable Business Resource Efficiency
• Sustainable development
• Sustainable farming and food
• Sustainable Growing Media – Peat Task Force
• Sustainable products and consumers
• Sustainable public purchasing
• Swine fever
• Swine influenza
• Swine Vesicular Disease (SVD)

T

• Tagging
  • Cattle
  • Goats
  • Sheep
• Taylor Review “Science for a new age of agriculture”
• Tenancies, agricultural
• Terms and conditions
• The Big Tree Plant
• Third Sector
• Town and village greens
• TRACES [EU] Trade Control and Expert System
• Trade Union Sustainable Development Advisory Committee (TUSDAC)
• Trade (WTO negotiations on agriculture)
• Transmissible Spongiform Encephalopathies (TSEs)
• Travelling with pets
• Tree health
• Tree Health and Plant Biosecurity Action Plan
• Triennial Reviews (Non-Departmental Public Bodies reviews)
  • Triennial Review of the Environment Agency and Natural England
• Tuberculosis (in cattle)

U

• UK Location Programme
• UK Register of Organic Food Standards (UKROFS)
• UK Zoonoses, Animal Diseases and Infections (UKZADI) Group

V

• Veterinary Laboratories Agency *
• Veterinary medicine
  • Government Veterinary Journal * (formerly known as State Veterinary Journal)
• Veterinary Medicines Directorate *
• Veterinary surveillance
• Village greens
• Voluntary and community sector (Third Sector)

W

• Wages, agricultural
• Walks, conservation
• Waste and recycling
  • Waste – construction waste and site waste management plans
  • Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment (WEEE)
  • Waste Implementation Programme
  • Waste incineration
  • Waste management – duty of care (includes Code of Practice)
  • Waste management – environmental and health effects research
  • Waste Partnership Fund (Community Sector Support Programme)
  • Waste Private Finance Initiative (PFI)
  • Waste – producer responsibility
  • Waste review
• Water
  • Cave review – competition and innovation in water markets
  • Drinking Water Inspectorate *
  • Walker review – charging and metering for water and sewerage services
  • Water strategy for England – Future Water
  • Water Supply (Water Fittings) Regulations 1999
  • Water White Paper
• Waterways
• Water code (Code of good agricultural practice for the protection of water)
• Water conservation
• Water Framework Directive
• Water pollution from agriculture (catchment sensitive farming)
• Water Regulations Advisory Committee
• Water supply
• Weeds Act 1959
• Welfare of animals
• Wetlands
• Whales and dolphins
• What we do
• Who we are
• Who we work with, our partners and agencies
• Whole Farm Approach
• Wildlife and Pets
• Wildlife crime
• Wildlife Health Strategy
• Wildlife management
• Wine industry
• Women’s Land Army
• World Trade Organization (WTO)
• WRAP (Waste and Resources Action Programme)

X

Y

Z

• Zoonoses
• Zoo and dangerous wild animals

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