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Apply to import a medicine for veterinary use into the UK.
Apply for an import certificate to import a medicinal product into the UK for veterinary use.
As a vet or pharmacist, you must follow legal requirements when working with controlled drugs in veterinary medicine.
You must get permission to export certain drugs and medicines.
Guidance for prescribing vets on the use of the cascade.
Guidance on prescribing or supplying veterinary medicines including requirements for registration and inspection of premises.
Service for Marketing Authorisation Holders, Manufacturers and Wholesalers.
Sets out legal text on the manufacture, authorisation, marketing, distribution and post-authorisation surveillance of veterinary medicines.
This is the Hub for all the Veterinary Medicines Directorate's communications on current and future regulatory changes.
Controlled drugs and the Misuse of Drugs Regulations as they relate to veterinary medicines.
Guidance for the pharmaceutical industry on Marketing Authorisations for veterinary medicines.
How to legally run a business that deals with the wholesale of animal medicines (veterinary medicinal products) and the WDA Register.
Guidance for the pharmaceutical industry on who can be a Marketing Authorisation Holder, named distributor or local representative and how to make changes to these.
Records that must be kept when supplying or administering veterinary medicines in the UK.
Legal terms for veterinary medicines, marketing of non-medicinal products including medicinal words and phrases, how to complain.
How to contact the VMD for specific services or enquiries.
Guidance for the veterinary pharmaceutical industry on applying for maximum residue limits (MRLs) in the UK.
Registers of authorised manufacturers, wholesale dealer sites and retailers.
Guidance for the veterinary pharmaceutical industry on the production and submission of the Summary of Product Characteristics (SPCs) and product literature mock-ups.
How to submit an application, data package and company responses for proposed or existing authorisations in the UK.
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