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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.
As a vet or pharmacist, you must follow legal requirements when working with controlled drugs in veterinary medicine.
You must get permission to export certain drugs and medicines.
Guidance for prescribing vets on the use of the cascade.
Guidance on prescribing or supplying veterinary medicines including requirements for registration and inspection of premises.
Sets out legal text on the manufacture, authorisation, marketing, distribution and post-authorisation surveillance of veterinary medicines.
Apply for an import certificate to import a medicinal product into the UK for veterinary use.
Service for Marketing Authorisation Holders, Manufacturers and Wholesalers.
Legal terms for veterinary medicines, marketing of non-medicinal products including medicinal words and phrases, how to complain.
Guidance for the pharmaceutical industry on Marketing Authorisations for veterinary medicines.
Registers of authorised manufacturers, wholesale dealer sites and retailers.
Records that must be kept when supplying or administering veterinary medicines in the UK.
How to apply for approval for a suitably qualified person (SQP) retailer premises to sell or supply animal medicines.
How to contact the VMD for specific services or enquiries.
Explainer on product information templates to be used by applicants and Marketing Authorisation Holders (MAHs) of veterinary medicines.
Guidance for the veterinary pharmaceutical industry on the production and submission of the Summary of Product Characteristics (SPCs) and product literature mock-ups.
How to legally run a business that deals with the wholesale of animal medicines (veterinary medicinal products) and the WDA Register.
Definitive fees charged for applications under Schedule 7 of the Veterinary Medicines Regulations 2013.
Marketing Authorisations Information Service (MAVIS) Hub edition 130
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