Licences and permits

The permissions a business needs before it can trade, each one tied to the law that creates it and to the body that issues it. We point at GOV.UK for fees and forms, and never copy them.

12 of 426 licences in Wales for Agriculture: animals

Choose from all 48 activities

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Agricultural analyst appointment (England, Northern Ireland, Wales)

Agricultural analysts are responsible for performing analyses on feed to ensure businesses are complying with feed safety law.

Welsh Government · England, Wales and Northern Ireland

Agriculture: animals

Application to register a milk production holding (England and Wales)

Your council · England and Wales

Agriculture: animals · Animal products: manufacturing and wholesale

F

Farrier registration (England, Scotland and Wales)

If you work in farriery (shoeing horses or other equine animals) in England, Scotland or Wales, you need to be registered with the Farriers …

DEFRA · England, Wales and Scotland

Agriculture: animals

G

Goods vehicle operator licences

You need a goods vehicle operator’s licence if your business uses a goods vehicle with either a gross plated weight (the maximum weight that …

Traffic Commissioners · England, Wales and Scotland

Any trade

H

Heather and grass burning licence (Wales)

You need a licence to burn heather, rough grass, bracken, gorse or vaccinium outside the burning season in Wales

Your council · Wales

Agriculture: animals · Agriculture: crops and plants · Environment conservation and wildlife +1 more

L

Local authority environmental permits (England and Wales)

Permit to carry out Part A(2) or Part B activities or run a Part A(2) or Part B installation or mobile plant.

Your council · England and Wales

Any trade

M

Mixing ammonium nitrate (with fuel oil) licence

You need a manufacturing licence to combine ammonium nitrate and fuel oil to create mixtures for use in certain blasting operations

HSE · England, Wales and Scotland

Agriculture: animals · Chemicals and petroleum

S

Shotgun and firearm certificates

You need a firearm or shotgun certificate issued by the police to possess, buy or acquire a firearm or shotgun, and buy ammunition

Home Office · England, Wales and Scotland

Agriculture: animals · Firearms, explosives and fireworks · Sports

Specific risk material authorisation (Wales)

You need authorisation from the Food Standards Agency to remove specified risk material at a slaughterhouse or cutting plant in Wales

Your council · Wales

Agriculture: animals · Animal products: manufacturing and wholesale

T

The Beef Carcase Classification scheme: work as a classifier

The Beef Carcase Classification (BCC) scheme is the compulsory classification of beef carcases to an agreed standard so that a fair meat price can …

RPA · England and Wales

Agriculture: animals · Animal products: manufacturing and wholesale · Food and drink: wholesale, manufacturing and production

W

Weighbridge operator certificate

Contact your council for a certificate of competence to operate a chargeable weighbridge

Your council · England, Wales and Scotland

Any trade

Wool Marketing Board registration

You need to register with the British Wool Marketing Board (BWMB) if you produce wool with 4 or more sheep

DEFRA · England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland

Agriculture: animals · Animal products: manufacturing and wholesale · Retail: manufacturing and wholesale

We have not yet mapped an enabling instrument for 4 licences on this list. That is a gap in our graph, not a statement about the law, and those pages say so rather than guessing.

Checking approvals more broadly?

A licence is one of several things you may need before your first day of trading. The pre-trading quick check walks the registrations, insurances and approvals alongside it.

Run the pre-trading quick check

Not sure which of these apply to you?

Our guides on finding a licence and dealing with your local council walk through the questions that decide it.

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