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Designated land, sea and air ports for trading or moving CITES-listed endangered animals, plants, or their parts and derivatives.
How to apply for a licence to capture, transport and re-release beavers or modify or remove beaver dams, burrows and lodges at any time of year.
Rules you need to follow to export cattle, pigs, sheep, goats and poultry.
Form to apply to use restricted animal proteins in animal feed, or to transport bulk straight processed animal proteins or restricted proteins.
Information for French nationals travelling to the UK with pets.
What animal by-products (ABPs) are, how to set up a site that uses them safely, the paperwork you need, and how to dispose of them.
Licences and authorisations to import genetic material, research and diagnostic samples, trade samples and display items, and some live animals and animal products.
Find out about the goods that are restricted and controlled when importing or exporting merchandise in your baggage.
If you buy a pet dog or cat, it’s important that you make checks to help combat the illegal trade in pet animals.
Transport on trains, planes, cars, taxis and minicabs, buses, coaches and wheelchairs for disabled people - Freedom Pass, Disabled Person's Railcard, concessionary bus pass and Shopmobility.
How to manage the health and welfare of poultry during transport, at market and during slaughter.
How to comply with the exemption from the Veterinary Medicines Regulations that allow certain animal medicines to be sold without a marketing authorisation.
Find out about the licences you need and rules you must follow to import Specified Animal Pathogens into England, Scotland and Wales.
Find out which live animals and animal foods or feeding stuffs are zero-rated for VAT.
Information on the legal responsibilities of people who own or care for domestic pets
How to obtain an authorisation to wholesale veterinary medicines.
How to transport dangerous goods, including guidance notes, authorisation notices, exception notices and multilateral agreements.
A collection of guides for anyone working with animal by-products (ABPs), including how to process, transport, store and dispose of them.
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