SEARS Services by Agency

This section allows you look through the services that are provided by each of the SEARS agencies.

If you select the agency header, for example “Animal Health”, you will be given a short summary about that agency, plus a link to their website. This will also provide basic contact details and links to frequently asked questions (FAQs).

If you select the service, for example “Animal gatherings licensing”, you will be provided with a short summary of the details about that service and a link to any additional relevant information, which may be on the agency web site.

• Animal Health

• Animal By Products Premises
• Animal Gatherings
• Animal Health Office Search
• Animal Movements
• Approval of premises
• Bovine Semen Controls
• Bovine Tuberculosis
• Breeding Controls
• Exotic and Notifiable Disease
• Import and Export licensing of Livestock
• Import and Export licensing of Livestock
• National Scrapie Plan
• Protecting wildlife and endangered species - CITES and Bird Registration
• Protecting wildlife and endangered species - CITES and Bird Registration
• Welfare
• Welfare in Transport

• Cairngorms National Park Authority

• Cairngorms Awareness & Pride Project
• Cairngorms Local Biodiversity Forum
• Cairngorms Local Outdoor Access Forum (LOAF)
• Cairngorms National Park Plan
• Cairngorms Outdoor Access Trust (COAT)
• Cairngorms Water Vole Conservation Project
• Core Paths Planning
• John Muir Award
• Land Based Business Training Project (LBBT)
• SRDP
• Swift Nests Survey
• Tackling climate change
• The Cairngorms Local Action Group - LEADER
• Warning - Alien Invasion! Non-native species

• Crofters Commission

• Apportionments
• Assignations
• Bequest of a croft
• Creating a new croft
• Croft House Grants Scheme (CHGS)
• Croft mismanagement
• Crofter Forestry
• Decrofting
• Division
• Exchange of croft land
• Feedback/complaints (Crofters Commission)
• Grazings
• Letting
• Register of Crofts
• Standards of Service
• Subletting
• The Crofters (Scotland) Act 1993
• Transfer by executor

• Deer Commission for Scotland

• Authorisations to Cull Deer
• Complaints (DCS)
• Deer Annual Cull Return
• Deer Best Practice Guides
• Deer Census
• Deer Management
• Venison Returns

• Forestry Commission Scotland

• Creating Woodland Crofts
• Delegate Authority to an Agent (Forestry)
• Environmental Impact Assessment (Forestry)
• Forest Plans Claims and Amendments
• Forestry Challenge Funds
• Forestry Challenge Funds
• Forestry Commission Consultations
• Forestry Land and Property Sales
• Forestry Pests and Diseases
• Forestry Research
• Land Information Search - Forestry
• National Forest Land Scheme (NFLS)
• Register of Environmental Impact Assessments (Forestry)
• Register of Forestry Grant Schemes and Felling
• Renewables and Bio-Energy
• Scotland Rural Development Programme 2007 - 2013
• Scotland's Forests and Climate Change
• Scottish Forestry Grant Scheme Claims and Amendments
• Scottish Forestry Grant Scheme Claims and Amendments
• See 'Grants and subsidies..' category
• Timber Development Programme
• Timber Transport
• Tree Felling Regulations and Licences
• Tree Felling Regulations and Licences
• Wildlife and Forest Operations
• Woodland Grant Scheme Claims and Amendments
• Woodland Grant Scheme Claims and Amendments
• Woods In and Around Towns (WIAT) Programme

• Loch Lomond and The Trossachs National Park Authority

• Complaints (LLTNPA)
• Natural Heritage Grant Scheme

• Scottish Environment Protection Agency

• Abstraction and impoundment activities
• Abstraction Data Return
• Agricultrual waste - best practice guide
• Aqualculture Licence to discharge
• Best management practices to reduce diffuse pollution risks
• Complaints (SEPA)
• Controlled Activities Regulation (CAR) - Guidance
• Diffuse pollution guidance
• Diffuse Pollution Guidance
• Discharges to the water environment
• Disposal of sheep dip or other agrochemicals to land
• Disposal of waste sheep dip or other agrochemicals to land
• Engineering Activities in or near water
• Exemptions from waste management licensing
• Farming and Watercourse Management
• Flooding and Floodline
• Fly-tipping
• Habitat Enhancement Grants
• Marine Aqualculture
• Marine Fish Farm Manual
• Paragraph 12 exemption - composting
• Paragraph 19 exemption - waste for construction and other work
• Paragraph 29 exemption - burning waste in an incinerator
• Paragraph 42 exemption - disposal of pesticide washings
• Paragraph 7 exemption - land treatment for agricultural benefit
• Paragraph 8(2) exemption - storage/spreading sludge
• Paragraph 9 exemption - reclamation or improvement of land
• Pollution Prevention and Control (PPC)
• Pollution Prevention Guidelines
• Radioactive sources in combine harvesters
• Radioactive sources in combine harvesters
• River Level Data
• Surrender of a water licence
• Transfer of a water licence
• Variation of a water licence
• Vision in Business Awards
• Waste Packaging
• Water environment restoration fund
• Water environment restoration fund

• Scottish Government, Rural Payments & Inspections Directorate

• Agent Authorisation Form - AA1
• Animal Movements
• Appeals Application - Stage 1
• Appeals Application - Stage 2
• Appeals under EU funded schemes
• Application for authorisation as packing centre - EMR2
• Application to register egg production facility - EMR3
• Application to register hatchery/breeding/multiplying establishment - EMR10
• A-Z list of Grants, Subsidies and Services
• BACS Euro Form - BACS(2) Euro
• BACS Sterling Form - BACS(1) Sterling
• Croft House Grant Scheme
• Croft Tenancy Family Assignation Application
• Croft Tenancy Non-Family Assignation
• Cross Compliance (Statutory Management Requirements & Good Agricultural and Environmental Condition)
• Enforcement of Egg and Poultry Marketing Standards
• Enforcement of Egg and Poultry Marketing Standards
• Environmental Impact Assessment Application - EIA 1
• EU Fruit and Vegetable Regime - Aid Scheme
• Food Processing, Marketing and Co-operation (FPMC)
• Geese - Licensing and Shooting
• Guidance for Farmers in Nitrate Vulnerable Zones - Tables for calculations
• Habitats Scheme
• Herd Register for Female Bovine Animals
• Herd Register for Male Bovine Animals
• Highlands and Islands Veterinary Services Scheme (HIVSS)
• IACS - Application to Transfer SFPS Entitlements - IACS SFPS1
• IACS - Field Data Sheet for Permanent Land - IACS(3)
• IACS - Field Data Sheet for Seasonal Land - IACS(4)
• IACS - Single Application Form - IACS(2)
• Integrated Administration and Control System (IACS)
• Land and Business Changes
• Land Management Contract Menu Scheme
• LEADER
• Less Favoured Area Support Scheme
• Livestock Movement Record Books
• Plant health – fruit, vegetables, flowers and hardy nursery stock
• Plant Health – fruit, vegetables, flowers and hardy nursery stock
• Potato Plant Health
• Potatoes - Application for growing crop inspection - SPCS1(PBTC)
• Potatoes - Application for inspection of growing crops of potatoes - SPCS1
• Potatoes - Application for seed potato labels - Export - SPL1E
• Potatoes - Application for seed potato labels - Export - SPL1E
• Potatoes - Application for Seed Potato Labels - Home - SPL1(A/S)
• Potatoes - Application for Soil Test for PCNs
• Potatoes - Exemption for Planting of Seed Potatoes in contact with ware
• Potatoes - Fees Summary for growing crops inspection - SPCS1a
• Potatoes - Notification of Planted Ware Potatoes - PP1
• Potatoes - Order Form for cultures from SASA Nuclear Stock
• Potatoes - Order Form for production of Nuclear Stock Clones
• Poultry
• Register for Business as a Licensed Seed Testing Station
• Register for Cereal Crop Inspection Course
• Register for Seed Merchant, Processor or Packer
• Rural Development Contracts - Land Managers Options
• Rural Development Contracts - Rural Priorities
• Rural Payments Online
• Rural Stewardship Scheme (RSS)
• Scotland Rural Development Programme (SRDP)
• Scottish Beef Calf Scheme
• Scottish Calf Beef Scheme - SBCS Annex B
• Scottish Calf Beef Scheme - SBCS1
• See 'Grants and subsidies...' category
• Seed Sampler's Course
• Separation Agreements
• Sheep and Goat Movement - Holding Register
• Sheep and Goat Movements
• Single Application Form  (SAF)
• Single Farm Payment Scheme (SFPS)
• Skills Development Scheme
• Whole Farm Review Scheme (WFRS)
• Wildlife Control Licences
• Wildlife Control Licences

• Scottish Natural Heritage

• Comments, compliments and complaints (Scottish Natural Heritage)
• Grants - Scottish Natural Heritage
• Licences (culling)
• LIFE+ Funding
• Local Landscape Designations
• Natural Care
• Protected Areas Information
• Sharing Good Practice
• Sites of Special Scientific Interest (SSSI)
• Special Areas of Conservation (SAC)
• Special Protection Areas (SPAs)