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Apply to import a medicine for veterinary use into the UK.
As a vet or pharmacist, you must follow legal requirements when working with controlled drugs in veterinary medicine.
Guidance for prescribing vets on the use of the cascade.
Prescribing or supplying veterinary medicines including requirements for registration and inspection of premises.
This is the Hub for all the Veterinary Medicines Directorate's communications on current and future regulatory changes.
The legal text underpinning the regulation of manufacture, authorisation, marketing, distribution, use and post-authorisation surveillance of veterinary medicines and medicated feed.
You must get permission to export certain drugs and medicines.
Placing a veterinary medicine on the market, including non-medicinal products, medicinal words and phrases, how to obtain advice, report non-compliance.
Apply for an import certificate to import a medicinal product into the UK for veterinary use.
Registers of authorised manufacturers, wholesale dealer sites and retailers.
Service for Marketing Authorisation Holders, Manufacturers and Wholesalers.
How to contact the VMD for specific services or enquiries.
Guidance for the pharmaceutical industry on Marketing Authorisations for veterinary medicines in the UK.
How to obtain an authorisation to wholesale veterinary medicines.
Who in the pharmaceutical industry can be a Marketing Authorisation Holder, named distributor or local representative and how to make changes to these.
Explainer on product information templates to be used by applicants and Marketing Authorisation Holders (MAHs) of veterinary medicines.
Explanation of what Pharmacovigilance means and who is responsible. These documents must be read with the Implementation Explainer at VMD Information Hub.
Records that must be kept when supplying or administering veterinary medicines in the UK.
How to register veterinary practice premises for veterinary surgeons to supply veterinary medicines.
Explainer for the pharmaceutical industry on the implementation of Pharmacovigilance requirements during the transition time from the date the revised VMR have effect in GB to 17 May 2027.
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