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The National Test Programme (NTP) aims to promote sustainable and regenerative agriculture with a twin track approach.
Track 1 encourages farmers to improve their knowledge of current environmental performance and efficiency. It provides public support to producers to undertake Carbon Audits and Soil Analysis. (...)
Track 2 works with a focus group to design and test the tools and processes necessary to reward farmers, crofters and land managers for the climate and biodiversity outcomes they deliver. It creates a Conditionality Test Programme, which involves a cross section of around 1,500 farmers and crofters to learn what measures would work. (...)
In addition, both tracks meet the policy-specific criteria (...): Payments under environmental programmes. Eligibility for payments is dependent on the applicants meeting the specified conditions under the scheme. As per 12(b), the amount of payment is limited to the extra costs incurred (such as for undertaking Carbon audits or Soil Analysis) and the loss of income (where a producer is asked to participate in surveys, and to reflect on and provide feedback on specific actions) which result from complying with the programme.

Food and Drink Sector Recovery Plan (FDSRP) (Scotland).
(...) Pillar 2 - Supporting Businesses to capitalise on demand: focused on 2 broad areas: direct business interventions; and industry-wide actions such as: (...) • new green initiative, working with 200 businesses to undertake environmental and waste audits, and the development associated improvement plans; (...)

The Ivory Act 2018 (Commencement No. 2 and Transitional Provision) Regulations 2022: The Ivory Act (2018) prohibits the import of items made of or containing ivory, regardless of their age, unless they fall within one of the narrow and carefully defined exemptions. Those wishing to import ivory must first register the item under Section 10 of the Act or apply for an exemption certificate under Section 2.

1.3. Endangered Species (CITES): This section provides an overview of legislation regulating imports of specimens of certain endangered species of animals and plants, whether dead or alive and including their parts or derivatives. The system implements the licensing obligations of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES). Documentation is required for the import into and (re-)export from United Kingdom (UK) of endangered species listed in Appendices I, II and III of CITES and of certain non-CITES species which are covered by relevant legislation.

1.4. Items made of or containing Ivory: The Ivory Act (2018) applies to the import to the UK and export from the UK of items made of or containing elephant ivory which are intended to be dealt. (...) The Ivory Act (2018) prohibits the import and export of items made of or containing elephant ivory for the purposes of dealing those items, unless they fall within one of five exemptions.

1.5. Ozone-depleting substances: The import of ozone-depleting substances (ODS) is subject to licensing. In the context of the Vienna Convention for the Protection of the Ozone Layer and the Montreal Protocol on the substances that deplete the ozone layer, the Environment Agency issues ODS licences for imports into Great Britain based on applications submitted via the ODS quota, licensing and reporting system. Imports (as well as exports) of controlled substances, referred to hereby as ODS and products and equipment containing or relying on ODS are prohibited. However, there are exemptions to this prohibition. (...)

1.6. Fluorinated gases including hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs): HFCs are, together with perfluorocarbons (PFCs) and sulphur hexafluoride (SF6), a fluorinated greenhouse gas (F-gas). F-gases are powerful greenhouse gases, with a global warming effect up to 23,000 times greater than carbon dioxide (CO2). HFCs are the most relevant F-gases from a climate perspective. As a signatory of the Kigali Amendment to the Montreal Protocol, the UK is committed to reduce our consumption of HFCs and to licence and report on them annually. Reducing emissions from F-gases is a part of UK's effort to implement the Paris Agreement under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change and achieve net zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2050. Companies must have a prior valid licence registration to import and export F-gases.

1.7. Harvested Timber: The FLEGT (Forest Law Enforcement, Governance and Trade) licensing scheme is a voluntary scheme to ensure that only legally harvested timber is imported into the UK from countries with which the UK concludes bilateral FLEGT Voluntary Partnership Agreements (VPAs). Under the scheme a partner country issues FLEGT licences for every shipment of timber products covered by the agreement exported to the UK. The release for free circulation in the UK of such shipments is conditional on the acceptance by the UK competent authority of the FLEGT licence. The competent authority may verify the authenticity of the FLEGT licence and its conformity with the shipment that it covers.

1.8. Waste shipment: This section provides a description of the UK waste shipment notification scheme as established by the UK rules and procedures for the transboundary shipments of waste. The import of waste into the UK is for wastes controlled under a licensing system administered by the UK competent authorities. Its requirements are tied in with those of the Basel Convention on the Control of Transboundary Movements of Hazardous Wastes and their Disposal, and an Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) decision on transboundary movements of waste for recovery.

The Free Trade Agreement between Iceland, the Principality of Liechtenstein and the Kingdom of Norway and the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (the "Agreement") replaces the Agreement on Trade in Goods between Iceland, the Kingdom of Norway and the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (see document series WT/REG430/N/1), which governs current trading arrangements between the United Kingdom and Iceland. The Agreement establishes a free trade area for trade in goods within the meaning of Article XXIV of the GATT 1994 and trade in services within the meaning of Article V of the GATS. The Agreement includes provisions on trade in goods, services, investment, digital and telecommunications, small and medium sized enterprises, and trade and sustainable development, including women's economic empowerment. (...)