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You need a licence to keep certain kinds of wild or dangerous animals: contact your council for more information
Apply for premises approval to move animals covered by the Balai Directive.
Collection of guidance for importing live animals and animal products.
Collection of guidance for exporting and moving live animals and animal products.
Technical advice and guidance for licence holders.
How to unload, handle and hold animals at sites where animals not for human consumption are killed, and how the site must be designed.
Find out which birds and animals may be spared from culling during an outbreak of an exotic animal disease.
Rules on restraining methods, stunning pens, captive bolt, gas and electrical stunning equipment, bleeding animals and shackling and hoisting animals.
Rules for feeding, watering, prioritising, holding animals for slaughter, and the design and layout of a slaughterhouse.
What you need to do if you find, own or look after a listed invasive non-native (alien) animal in England and Wales.
Current issues relating to imports and exports of animals and animal products.
Report a dead or injured animal such as a badger, fox or domestic pet found on the road
How to manage the burial of animal remains to prevent or limit groundwater pollution.
What you need to do to export live animals from the UK.
Apply for a licence to import live animals (not pet dogs, cats and ferrets).
Use IPAFFS to notify enforcement authorities about imports to Great Britain.
Find out which live animals and animal foods or feeding stuffs are zero-rated for VAT.
Check the tariff classification for dried buffalo ears and dried beef meat scraped off from the throat, for use as animal feed.
Check if a country or territory is approved to export animals and animal products to Great Britain (England, Scotland and Wales).
Apply for a licence to release non-native (alien) and schedule 9 species, or release native Eurasian beavers into secure enclosures, and how to report your actions.
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