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Fees for testing commercial poultry flocks for salmonella and for laboratories to get approval to test for salmonella.
Protected Geographical Indication (PGI)
Find bird flu disease control zones and the rules you must follow in each zone.
This licence allows you to move poultry by-products and hatching eggs for disposal from premises in a protection or surveillance zone.
Licences and authorisations to import genetic material, research and diagnostic samples, trade samples and display items, and some live animals and animal products.
Find out what you need to do to keep wild birds or animals legally and safely, including when you need a licence and how to get one.
English hedgerows will be protected in law as the government sets out its plans for domestic hedgerow regulations, following a consultation last year.
Laws and regulations protecting farm animals at shows and markets, including the suitability of pens, cages or hutches
Marketing standards for hatching egg and chick producers, manufacturers, retailers and distributors.
How to legally kill your own poultry, cattle, pigs, sheep, goats, rabbits and hares to eat at home.
Provides protection to chickens infected with H9N2 avian influenza
Know which licence or certificate you must have to restrain, stun or kill animals which are not for human consumption, and how to carry out these operations.
How a competent authority must decide if a plan or project proposal that affects a European site can go ahead.
How to be approved as a compartment that meets EU or GB enhanced standards by protecting your poultry farm or hatchery against disease.
Competent authorities of exporting countries should use the relevant model health certificate as a template to create a version exporters can apply for to export poultry meat to Great Britain, the Channel Islands or Isle of Man.
A guide to farming risks, potential problems with public safety and how to avoid accidents
Ecologists can use European protected species (EPS) policies on development sites to benefit EPS by changing survey, mitigation or compensation methods.
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