SEARS - Access Services

This section allows you look through the services that are provided, sorted by category of service.

If you select the service, for example “Animal gatherings” under “Animal Inspection and 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.

• Awards

• John Muir Award
• Vision in Business Awards
• Warning - Alien Invasion! Non-native species

• Complaints

• Comments, compliments and complaints (Scottish Natural Heritage)
• Complaints (DCS)
• Complaints (LLTNPA)
• Complaints (SEPA)
• Feedback/complaints (Crofters Commission)

• Conservation Areas

• Cairngorms Local Outdoor Access Forum (LOAF)
• Cairngorms National Park Plan
• Cairngorms Outdoor Access Trust (COAT)
• Cairngorms Water Vole Conservation Project
• Core Paths Planning
• Local Landscape Designations
• Protected Areas Information
• Sites of Special Scientific Interest (SSSI)
• Special Areas of Conservation (SAC)
• Special Protection Areas (SPAs)

• Crofting

• Apportionments
• Assignations
• Bequest of a croft
• Creating a new croft
• Creating Woodland Crofts
• Croft House Grant Scheme
• Croft mismanagement
• Croft Tenancy Family Assignation Application
• Croft Tenancy Non-Family Assignation
• Crofter Forestry
• Decrofting
• Division
• Exchange of croft land
• Grazings
• Letting
• Register of Crofts
• Standards of Service
• Subletting
• The Crofters (Scotland) Act 1993
• Transfer by executor

• Crops

• Plant Health – fruit, vegetables, flowers and hardy nursery stock
• 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 - 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
• Radioactive sources in combine harvesters

• Deer Management

• Authorisations to Cull Deer
• Deer Annual Cull Return
• Deer Best Practice Guides
• Deer Census
• Deer Management
• Venison Returns

• Eggs and poultry

• Application for authorisation as packing centre - EMR2
• Application to register egg production facility - EMR3
• Application to register hatchery/breeding/multiplying establishment - EMR10
• Enforcement of Egg and Poultry Marketing Standards

• Environment

• Diffuse Pollution Guidance
• Environmental Impact Assessment Application - EIA 1
• Guidance for Farmers in Nitrate Vulnerable Zones - Tables for calculations
• Tackling climate change

• Fish Farming

• Marine Aqualculture
• Marine Fish Farm Manual

• Food production and safety

• Enforcement of Egg and Poultry Marketing Standards

• Forestry

• Delegate Authority to an Agent (Forestry)
• Environmental Impact Assessment (Forestry)
• 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's Forests and Climate Change
• Scottish Forestry Grant Scheme Claims and Amendments
• Timber Development Programme
• Timber Transport
• Tree Felling Regulations and Licences
• Wildlife and Forest Operations
• Woodland Grant Scheme Claims and Amendments

• Funding

• See 'Grants and subsidies..' category
• SRDP
• The Cairngorms Local Action Group - LEADER

• Grants, Subsidies and Services

• Agent Authorisation Form - AA1
• Appeals Application - Stage 1
• Appeals Application - Stage 2
• Appeals under EU funded schemes
• A-Z list of Grants, Subsidies and Services
• BACS Euro Form - BACS(2) Euro
• BACS Sterling Form - BACS(1) Sterling
• Croft House Grants Scheme (CHGS)
• Cross Compliance (Statutory Management Requirements & Good Agricultural and Environmental Condition)
• Food Processing, Marketing and Co-operation (FPMC)
• Forest Plans Claims and Amendments
• Forestry Challenge Funds
• Grants - Scottish Natural Heritage
• Habitats Scheme
• 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
• LIFE+ Funding
• Natural Care
• Natural Heritage Grant Scheme
• Rural Development Contracts - Land Managers Options
• Rural Development Contracts - Rural Priorities
• Rural Payments Online
• Rural Stewardship Scheme (RSS)
• Scotland Rural Development Programme (SRDP)
• Scotland Rural Development Programme 2007 - 2013
• Scottish Beef Calf Scheme
• Scottish Calf Beef Scheme - SBCS Annex B
• Scottish Calf Beef Scheme - SBCS1
• Scottish Forestry Grant Scheme Claims and Amendments
• Single Application Form  (SAF)
• Single Farm Payment Scheme (SFPS)
• Skills Development Scheme
• Water environment restoration fund
• Whole Farm Review Scheme (WFRS)
• Woodland Grant Scheme Claims and Amendments
• Woods In and Around Towns (WIAT) Programme

• Horticulture

• EU Fruit and Vegetable Regime - Aid Scheme
• Plant health – fruit, vegetables, flowers and hardy nursery stock
• Potato Plant Health
• Register for Business as a Licensed Seed Testing Station
• Register for Seed Merchant, Processor or Packer

• Imports/exports

• Potatoes - Application for seed potato labels - Export - SPL1E

• Licences

• Bovine Semen Controls
• Geese - Licensing and Shooting
• Import and Export licensing of Livestock
• Protecting wildlife and endangered species - CITES and Bird Registration
• Tree Felling Regulations and Licences
• Wildlife Control Licences

• Livestock related

• Animal By Products Premises
• Animal Gatherings
• Animal Health Office Search
• Animal Movements
• Animal Movements
• Approval of premises
• Bovine Tuberculosis
• Breeding Controls
• Exotic and Notifiable Disease
• Herd Register for Female Bovine Animals
• Herd Register for Male Bovine Animals
• Import and Export licensing of Livestock
• Livestock Movement Record Books
• National Scrapie Plan
• Pollution Prevention and Control (PPC)
• Poultry
• Separation Agreements
• Sheep and Goat Movement - Holding Register
• Sheep and Goat Movements
• Welfare
• Welfare in Transport

• Subsidies

• See 'Grants and subsidies...' category

• Training

• Cairngorms Awareness & Pride Project
• Cairngorms Local Biodiversity Forum
• Land Based Business Training Project (LBBT)
• Register for Cereal Crop Inspection Course
• Seed Sampler's Course
• Sharing Good Practice

• Waste Management

• Agricultrual waste - best practice guide
• Disposal of sheep dip or other agrochemicals to land
• Exemptions from waste management licensing
• Fly-tipping
• 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
• Radioactive sources in combine harvesters
• Waste Packaging

• Water

• Abstraction and impoundment activities
• Abstraction Data Return
• Aqualculture Licence to discharge
• Best management practices to reduce diffuse pollution risks
• Controlled Activities Regulation (CAR) - Guidance
• Diffuse pollution guidance
• Discharges to the water environment
• Disposal of waste sheep dip or other agrochemicals to land
• Engineering Activities in or near water
• Farming and Watercourse Management
• Flooding and Floodline
• Habitat Enhancement Grants
• Pollution Prevention Guidelines
• River Level Data
• Surrender of a water licence
• Transfer of a water licence
• Variation of a water licence
• Water environment restoration fund

• Wildlife

• Licences (culling)
• Protecting wildlife and endangered species - CITES and Bird Registration
• Swift Nests Survey
• Wildlife Control Licences