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Manage your birds’ housing and welfare when they must be kept inside because of disease outbreaks.
Legal requirements and good practice guidance for Veterinary Practice Premises Inspections.
Standards for the care and accommodation of animals required by the Animals (Scientific) Procedures Act 1986 and advice on how to comply with the standards.
Find out what happens when you report a notifiable animal disease and how to get support.
How to assess a planning application when there are otters on or near a proposed development site.
Fees for testing animals for disease for export purposes, importing captive birds and Animal Breeding Control (ABC).
Ecologists can use European protected species (EPS) policies on development sites to benefit EPS by changing survey, mitigation or compensation methods.
Check open environmental data and use it in your own applications.
Find out about the different marine species and how they are protected UK wildlife legislation.
Guidance for the pharmaceutical industry on how to apply for an authorisation to place a veterinary medicine on the UK market or part of, or to expire one.
Explainer on product information templates to be used by applicants and Marketing Authorisation Holders (MAHs) of veterinary medicines.
What counts as a bird gathering, and how to notify the Animal and Plant Health Agency.
Guidance on section 14 of the Wildlife and Countryside Act, which prevents the wild release of certain plants and animals in England and Wales.
Find out about a specific tree pest or disease, including its lifecycle, the type of damage it does, and what to do about it.
How to assess a planning application when there are hazel (common) dormice on or near a proposed development site.
Placing a veterinary medicine on the market, including non-medicinal products, medicinal words and phrases, how to obtain advice, report non-compliance.
Find out what experience and references you need to support your application or registration, and what form your referees need to complete.
How local authorities can select a site, and then declare and manage it as a local nature reserve (LNR).
Register as an ecological consultant to disturb or capture common bats, or damage or destroy low conservation status roosts; find out how to register a site and if you need to pay.
The licence sets out where you can fish, what you are not allowed to fish and the limits for the stocks you are allowed to fish and land.
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