Animal and Plant Health Agency
The Animal and Plant Health Agency (APHA) is an executive agency of the Department of the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs and also works on behalf of the Scottish Government and Welsh Government.
The agency was launched on 1 October 2014. It merges the former Animal Health and Veterinary Laboratories Agency (AHVLA) with parts of the Food and Environment Research Agency (FERA) responsible for plant and bee health to create a single agency responsible for animal, plant and bee health[1]. The AHVLA had originally been established on 1 April 2011 by a merger of two former agencies, Animal Health and the Veterinary Laboratories Agency.
It is one of the regulatory authorities that an operator of a Biogas or Composting facility that receives Animal By-product Material for processing,the other being the EA in England, SEPA in Scotland, and NRW in Wales.
The application process and guidance is set out in the .gov website[2]