Natural England
October 7
10:31
2022
Details
You need a mitigation licence if your work will have impacts on European protected species (EPS) that would otherwise be illegal. This includes:
- capturing, killing, disturbing or injuring them - on purpose or by not taking enough care
- damaging or destroying their breeding or resting places - even accidentally
- obstructing access to their resting or sheltering places - on purpose or by not taking enough care
You can use licence A12 for the following animal EPS:
- beavers
- fishers estuarine moth
- large blue butterfly
- lesser whirlpool ramshorn snail
- pool frog
- wildcat
You can use licence A12 for the following plant EPS:
- creeping marshwort
- early gentian
- fen orchid
- floating water-plantain
- Killarney fern
- ladys slipper orchid
- shore dock
- slender naiad
- marsh saxifrage
Do not use this licence for the EPS that have their own mitigation licence application forms:
You need to follow the Marine Management Organisation guidance for marine EPS:
- sturgeon
- dolphin, porpoise and whale (all species)
- turtles: green turtle, hawksbill turtle, Kemps ridley, turtle, leatherback turtle, loggerhead turtle
Other protected species
If you need a mitigation licence for a protected species that is not an EPS, you must use a different application form. Visit Protected species: apply for a mitigation licence (A05 and A05a) for more details.
Apply for an A12 licence
To apply you must:
- complete application form A12
- include a method statement to show what youll do to reduce the impacts of the proposed work on the affected species
- include a