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Guidance for prescribing vets on the use of the cascade.
As a vet or pharmacist, you must follow legal requirements when working with controlled drugs in veterinary medicine.
Apply to import a medicine for veterinary use into the UK.
This is the Hub for all the Veterinary Medicines Directorate's communications on current and future regulatory changes.
Prescribing or supplying veterinary medicines including requirements for registration and inspection of premises.
The legal text underpinning the regulation of manufacture, authorisation, marketing, distribution, use and post-authorisation surveillance of veterinary medicines and medicated feed.
Explanation of what Pharmacovigilance means and who is responsible. These documents must be read with the Implementation Explainer at VMD Information Hub.
You must get permission to export certain drugs and medicines.
Records that must be kept when supplying or administering veterinary medicines in the UK.
Apply for an import certificate to import a medicinal product into the UK for veterinary use.
Placing a veterinary medicine on the market, including non-medicinal products, medicinal words and phrases, how to obtain advice, report non-compliance.
Guidance for the pharmaceutical industry on Marketing Authorisations for veterinary medicines in the UK.
Service for Marketing Authorisation Holders, Manufacturers and Wholesalers.
Explainer for businesses and persons regulated by the Veterinary Medicines Regulations 2013, as amended, on the transitional provisions included in the amending legislation: the Veterinary Medicines (Amendment etc.) Regulati…
Clarification for the interpretation of the new elements within the Veterinary Medicines Regulations (VMRs), as amended, relating to combating antimicrobial resistance (AMR).
How veterinary medicines can be advertised.
How to comply with the exemption from the Veterinary Medicines Regulations that allow certain animal medicines to be sold without a marketing authorisation.
Who in the pharmaceutical industry can be a Marketing Authorisation Holder, named distributor or local representative and how to make changes to these.
Registers of authorised manufacturers, wholesale dealer sites and retailers.
Explainer for the pharmaceutical industry on the implementation of Pharmacovigilance requirements during the transition time from the date the revised VMR have effect in GB to 17 May 2027.
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