Guidance: Extended producer responsibility for packaging: local authority payment calculations 2025 to 2026

Find out the methodology and procedure used to calculate extended producer responsibility (EPR) payments to local authorities for 2025 to 2026 (year 1).

Policy paper: Report on the Joint Fisheries Statement

This is the first statutory report on the Joint Fisheries Statement (JFS), covering the period November 2022 to November 2025.

Fish health checks: before moving fish into inland waters

When fishery owners and suppliers of live fish must get a fish health check. How to arrange the check and how to report the results.

Statutory guidance: Bird flu: licence to move table eggs into, within or out of a protection or surveillance zone to an egg processing plant (EXD541(HPAI)(GB))

You should use this licence to move table eggs into, within or out of a protection or surveillance zone to an egg processing plant.

Policy paper: Defra’s small and medium-sized enterprise (SME) action plan: 2025 to 2026

Defra is backing your business by making it easier for small businesses to access public sector supply chains, removing unnecessary burdens and costs.