By unlocking the export potential China offers the pig industry, not to mention the red meat sector as a whole, we could gain entry into a marketplace which comprises a fifth of the world’s population.Defra set to cut environment red-tape
DEFRA has published plans to reduce the burden of environmental rules yesterday (Monday, August 2) as the department continues on its mission to cut red-tape from farming.
Ministers have launched an 8-week consultation on simplifying Environmental Permitting regulations which aim to control pollution from intensive farming and other outdoor industries.
The consultation, which will close on September 24, aims to ‘reduce the administrative burden of compliance without compromising environmental standards’.
The move continues the direction of travel set last month by Jim Paice, Farming Minister, when he named members of a Task Force to scour the country to identify ways to reduce the regulatory burden on farmers.
He said he wanted ‘to transform how we implement and enforce regulations’ to make the Government ‘supportive rather than prescriptive’.
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Anonymous | 3 August 2010 1:37 pm
My cottage is surrounded by farmers who breach all the environment rules - they bury asbestos, rip up hedges and wash their slurry tanks out in the river. despite phonecalls to the various bodies, no action is taking, and since theee is no policing of the area to ensure compliance - why would farmers take any notice of the environmental rules. Bring back country 'wardens' or a local ranger - just the potential presence of such aperson would deter those breaking the rules. Otherwise - why bother to have rules int he first place.
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