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Licences and authorisations to import genetic material, research and diagnostic samples, trade samples and display items, and some live animals and animal products.
Register to use a class licence for activities that need specific skill or experience to avoid risk to the conservation or welfare of a protected species.
Apply for a licence to manage and control certain non-native (alien) species.
What counts as a bird gathering, and how to notify the Animal and Plant Health Agency.
Find out how to protect wildlife and habitats and apply for wildlife licences so you can legally operate in woodlands and forests.
You may need a licence if you can’t avoid disturbing protected birds and animals to survey, film or photograph them.
Wild animals cannot be exhibited or used in a performance as part of a travelling circus in England.
How to assess a planning application when there are protected species on or near a proposed development site.
A guide to farming risks, potential problems with public safety and how to avoid accidents
The carnivores you can feed, when your site must be registered, authorised, or recognised, and the animal by-products you can use.
What you must do when you keep livestock or manage land.
Apply for premises approval to move animals covered by the Balai Directive.
Find out how to export live fish, molluscs and crustaceans for farming, ornamental, or any other purpose except direct human consumption
How to manage Eurasian beavers on your land without a licence and when you need a licence in England.
Updated framework providing support to local authorities carrying out their legal duties under animal health and welfare legislation.
How to apply for an authorisation to manufacture authorised veterinary medicines or medicines marketed under the Exemptions for small pet animals.
How to manage the health and welfare of poultry during transport, at market and during slaughter.
The legal text underpinning the regulation of manufacture, authorisation, marketing, distribution, use and post-authorisation surveillance of veterinary medicines and medicated feed.
Forms and contingency plan for a premises to apply for a licence to hold an animal gathering.
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