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As a vet or pharmacist, you must follow legal requirements when working with controlled drugs in veterinary medicine.
Prescribing or supplying veterinary medicines including requirements for registration and inspection of premises.
Industry webinars on the main changes affecting veterinary surgeons, wholesalers and retailers supplying veterinary medicines in Northern Ireland.
Apply to import a medicine for veterinary use into the UK.
Guidance for prescribing vets on the use of the cascade.
This is the Hub for all the Veterinary Medicines Directorate's communications on current and future regulatory changes.
Information on BTV-3 vaccines including permits and licences.
Service for Marketing Authorisation Holders, Manufacturers and Wholesalers.
Explanation of what Pharmacovigilance means and who is responsible. These documents must be read with the Implementation Explainer at VMD Information Hub.
The legal text underpinning the regulation of manufacture, authorisation, marketing, distribution, use and post-authorisation surveillance of veterinary medicines and medicated feed.
How to contact the VMD for specific services or enquiries.
You must get permission to export certain drugs and medicines.
Apply for an import certificate to import a medicinal product into the UK for veterinary use.
Guidance for the pharmaceutical industry on Marketing Authorisations for veterinary medicines in the UK.
Records that must be kept when supplying or administering veterinary medicines in the UK.
Urgent and clinically significant safety updates arising from pharmacovigilance data, including reported adverse events, for veterinary medicines authorised in the UK.
How to comply with the exemption from the Veterinary Medicines Regulations that allow certain animal medicines to be sold without a marketing authorisation.
Details about the arrangements in place from 1 January 2026 for veterinary medicines supplied to NI arrangements, including the new Government schemes.
How to register veterinary practice premises for veterinary surgeons to supply veterinary medicines.
Guidance for the pharmaceutical industry on how to apply to vary a veterinary Marketing Authorisation (MA) or Homeopathic Remedy.
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