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What you need to do to export or move food, drink and agricultural products.
Border control posts and charges for importing live animals, animal products, plants and plant products.
The rules you must follow to ensure pigs can be traced to prevent and contain disease.
Guidance on how to import and export plants and plant products to and from the UK.
How food shops, manufacturers, and distributors must dispose of or handle former foodstuffs or food waste.
Preliminary outbreak assessments, qualitative risk assessments and updated situation assessments for bluetongue virus in Europe.
Find out when you must use a Defra-approved disinfectant, which product to use, and in what concentration.
What livestock keepers must do when they temporarily use extra land or buildings and their livestock will not mix with someone else’s livestock.
Apply online to export cats to China.
Competent authorities of exporting countries should use the relevant model health certificate as a template to create a version exporters can apply for to export fish products to Great Britain, the Channel Islands or Isle of…
Use this form to apply for a temporary land association (TLA) or temporary county parish holding (tCPH) number. This is to use extra land or buildings to keep livestock for less than a year.
Guidance for exporters in EU and non-EU countries on how to complete health certificates to export animals and animal products to Great Britain.
What a movement is, who needs to report moves, and how to prepare to move sheep and goats.
Competent authorities of exporting countries should use the relevant model health certificate as a template to create a version exporters can apply for to export meat products to Great Britain, the Channel Islands or Isle of…
A collection of guides for anyone working with animal by-products (ABPs), including how to process, transport, store and dispose of them.
Information on practices and procedures covered under the Plant Varieties Act 1997, the Plant Breeders’ Rights Regulations 1998 and the Seeds Regulations 2001.
We work to safeguard animal and plant health for the benefit of people, the environment and the economy.
Import risk categories under the Border Target Operating Model for live animals, animal products, plants and plant products imported to Great Britain.
Current rules for exporting horses and other equines (including ponies and donkeys) from the UK.
Plant health controls, imports and exports, certification schemes, plant passporting and listed quarantine plant pests.
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