Translate:
English
Chinese (S)
Chinese (T)
Croatian
Dutch
French
German
Hebrew
Italian
Japanese
Korean
Portuguese
Russian
Serbian
Spanish
Swedish
Turkish
Additional
Defra
English Wikipedia - The Free Encyclopedia
Download this dictionary
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
The
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
(
Defra
) is the
government department
responsible for
environmental
protection, food production and standards,
agriculture
,
fisheries
and rural communities in the
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
.
Concordats
set out agreed frameworks for co-operation between it and the
Scottish Government
,
Welsh Government
and
Northern Ireland Executive
, which have devolved responsibilities for these matters in their respective nations. Defra also leads for Britain at the EU on agricultural, fisheries and environment matters and in other international negotiations on sustainable development and climate change, although a new
Department of Energy and Climate Change
was created on 3 October 2008 to take over the last responsibility.
See more at Wikipedia.org...
© This article uses material from
Wikipedia
®
and is licensed under the
GNU Free Documentation License
and under the
Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License