Animal welfare
Services
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Application to become a member of PAW
You can apply to be a member of PAW by completing this form.
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Ferret and other mustelinae register
Send information about your ferret or other mustelinae to the Animal and Plant Health Agency (APHA) if you're in England and Wales.
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Application for a greyhound racetrack welfare licence
This form must be completed by any greyhound racing track operator in England whose track is not regulated by the Greyhound Board of Great Britain.
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Avian wildlife: casualty veterinary examination certificate
Form to complete a veterinary examination certificate for a wild bird which may be unfit to be released into the wild.
Guidance and regulation
- Import of products, animals, food and feed system (IPAFFS)
- Bringing your pet to the UK from Ukraine
- Certify an export health certificate
- Get an export health certificate
- Apply for an export health certificate
News and communications
- VICH Public Consultation on guidelines relating to efficacy of anthelmintic products
- Animal medicine seizure notice: Products shipped from South Africa stopped at Heathrow Airport
- Animal medicine seizure notice: Product stopped at Heathrow Airport June 2022
- VMD delivers its first Veterinary Dispensary Manager training event
- VMD Pharmaceutical Industry Customer Satisfaction Survey 2022
Research and statistics
- Statistics of scientific procedures on living animals, Great Britain: 2021
- VMD Published Standards 2022 to 2023: Monitoring performance
- Residues of veterinary medicines in food: 2022
- Residues of veterinary medicines in food: 2021
- African swine fever in pigs and wild boars in Europe
Policy papers and consultations
- Cat and dog microchipping consultation
- Labelling for animal welfare: call for evidence
- Improvements to equine identification and traceability in England
- Animal health and welfare: provisional common framework
- VMD Regulatory Science Strategy 2021-2026
Transparency and freedom of information releases
- Veterinary Medicines Directorate Regulators’ Code
- Veterinary Medicines Directorate annual report and accounts 2020 to 2021
- FOI requests received by the VMD between 1 July to 31 December 2019
- Veterinary Medicines Directorate annual report and accounts 2019 to 2020
- AHWBE: register of interests