Guidance and regulation

Use IPAFFS to notify enforcement authorities about imports to Great Britain.

• From: Animal and Plant Health Agency and 1 others
• Updated: 30 April 2024

How to import animals and animal products to Great Britain (England, Scotland and Wales), the Channel Islands and the Isle of Man from non-EU countries.

• From: Animal and Plant Health Agency and 2 others
• Updated: 30 April 2024

A list of organisations in England, Scotland and Wales that inspect and certify animals and animal products for export. The list does not include every certifier.

• From: Animal and Plant Health Agency
• Updated: 30 May 2024

• England: professionals who can certify export health certificates

  If you want to export animals and animal products from the UK, you need to…

• Scotland: professionals who can certify export health certificates

  If you want to export animals and animal products from the UK, you need to…

• Wales: professionals who can certify export health certificates

  If you want to export animals and animal products from the UK, you need to…

Rules to follow if you’re moving animals or animal products from one country to another and transiting through Great Britain (England, Scotland and Wales), known as ‘landbridge’ movements.

• From: Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs
• Updated: 17 May 2024

Where Great Britain will accept verifiable PDF GB health certificates from, to import live animals and animal products through TRACES or other systems.

• From: Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs
• Updated: 1 May 2024

What tags to use when exporting or moving sheep and goats outside of GB, including to Northern Ireland, what movement information to record and report.

• From: Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs and 1 others
• Updated: 31 May 2024

Rules and standards for running an approved breeding programme and keeping a breed book or register of purebred animals, hybrid pigs and germinal products.

• From: Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs
• Updated: 11 February 2022

When and how to tag sheep and goats imported into England, what to record in your holding register and how to report the movement.

• From: Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs and 1 others
• Updated: 1 June 2014

What cattle keepers must do when they import or move cattle into England or Wales, including passport and ear tagging rules.

• From: British Cattle Movement Service and 1 others
• Updated: 28 June 2023

The farm assurance schemes that meet the requirement for annual vet visits so you can export or move animals and animal products to the EU and Northern Ireland.

• From: Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs
• Updated: 9 January 2024

The terms and conditions for paying the common user charge.

• From: Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs
• Updated: 30 April 2024

Fees to have your consignment checked at a border control post by the Animal and Plant Health Agency (APHA).

• From: Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs
• Updated: 5 July 2023

What breed societies and organisations need a zootechnical certificate for, and what information it must include.

• From: Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs
• Updated: 11 February 2022

What you need to do as a farming business to trade with the EU.

• From: Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs
• Updated: 28 July 2021

Getting official recognition to trade animals and germinal products with other countries on zootechnical terms.

• From: Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs
• Updated: 15 February 2023