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Export food, drink and agricultural products
Check if you need a certificate to export food, drink and agricultural products.
Making a simplified frontier declaration
How to use the simplified declaration procedure when importing goods into the UK.
Making a full import declaration
Find out what you need to do when making a full declaration to bring or receive goods into the UK.
Retail business finances
Guides which can help your retail business to navigate financial issues with customers, suppliers, insurance and rates.
Moving plants from Great Britain to Northern Ireland
What growers and traders need to do to move plants (including plants for planting, seeds, used agricultural and forestry machinery and vehicles and seed potatoes) using a Northern Ireland plant health label (NIPHL).
Manually arrive your goods in the UK
Additional steps you or someone acting on your behalf may need to take to tell HMRC that your goods have arrived in the UK at a location using the Goods Vehicle Movement Service.
Export groups of products of animal origin: use 30-day support attestations to prove health and traceability
Exporters of groups of products of animal origin (POAO) to the EU and Northern Ireland can join the groupage export facilitation scheme (GEFS) to use 30-day support attestations
How to monitor water use in your business
Using a water balance to monitor your water use and comparing your water use with similar businesses.
Initial analysis of your water use and disposal
Analysing current business water use and disposal to give a baseline from which your water balance can be created.
Make a diagram of your business' water use
Making a block diagram of your water use to provide a visual aid to understanding potential savings.
How to keep your environmental policy up to date
How to ensure continual improvement in environmental performance by keeping your environmental policy up to date.
Checklist for writing an environmental policy
A simple checklist for how to draft an environmental policy which is appropriate to your type of business.
How to format your environmental policy
How to plan and develop an environmental policy according to the needs and culture of your business.
How to integrate an environmental policy into your business
Improve supplier relationships, consider environment-related investment, and set objectives for an efficient policy.
Extending the scope of your environmental policy
How to extend your environmental policy to take into account corporate social responsibility and greater sustainability.
Use your water monitoring information to save money
Using the information provided by the water balance and benchmarking to identify and implement cost savings.
Finalise the detail of your water balance
How to ensure you build the most comprehensive water balance by identifying less obvious water usage in your business.
What is water use benchmarking?
Some of the different types of water use benchmarking approaches and the benefits of water use benchmarking.
Quantify and record your water use
Precise measurement and recording of inflows and outflows is the final stage in understanding the water balance.
How to benchmark your water use
What the process involves for benchmarking against other businesses to compare your water usage and waste.