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Check if your import, export or re-export needs a permit or certificate under the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES).
How to apply to import, export or re-export endangered animal and plant species on the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES) list.
Apply online to export pet tortoises, turtles and reptiles like snakes, lizards and chameleons to Hong Kong, to use commercially.
Apply for a certificate to use a CITES-listed specimen for commercial purposes.
When and how you need to register your item or apply for an exemption certificate to deal in ivory.
Apply online to export pet tortoises to Portugal.
Apply online to export tortoises and turtles as domestic pets to the United Arab Emirates (UAE).
How to identify and classify waste that contains POPs.
Apply online to export pet tortoises to Spain.
Fines and costs dwarf licence price as anglers caught in Southampton, Bermondsey and West Drayton
Check if an item of upholstered domestic seating is a waste or non-waste item and, if it is waste, identify if it contains persistent organic pollutants (POPs).
When and how to identify your kids and goats with tags.
Identify, describe, classify and manage waste upholstered domestic seating containing persistent organic pollutants (POPs).
Get help to classify articles of leather and other items in chapter 42 of the tariff for import and export.
Apply online to export amphibians like frogs, newts and salamanders and reptiles like tortoises, turtles, snakes, lizards and chameleons as domestic pets to Ireland.
Urgent public health message: UKHSA has been notified about an outbreak of food botulism in France involving a small number of British nationals.
Guidance for people who have been diagnosed with a mpox infection and who have been advised to self-isolate at home.
Rules on restraining methods, stunning pens, captive bolt, gas and electrical stunning equipment, bleeding animals and shackling and hoisting animals.
How to destroy the POPs in waste and when you can recycle, recover or reuse waste containing POPs. How to apply to permanently store waste containing POPs.
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