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How to stop harmful weeds spreading onto land used for grazing livestock or growing crops, how to dispose of them and how to report them if they’ve spread.
Code of recommendations and guidance for laying hens, meat chickens, ducks, turkeys and other birds bred on farms.
Explanation of what Pharmacovigilance means and who is responsible. These documents must be read with the Implementation Explainer at VMD Information Hub.
Guidance for the pharmaceutical industry on Marketing Authorisations for veterinary medicines in the UK.
Steps land managers can take to sell biodiversity units to meet their biodiversity net gain (BNG) requirements.
Register for a licence to survey bats using your hand, artificial light, endoscopes and hand-held nets for scientific, research or educational purposes, including for commissioned surveys in relation to proposed developments…
When you need a licence to release common pheasants and red-legged partridges and how to apply.
Guidance for cattle keepers on the bovine TB surveillance testing intervals for areas in England, Wales and Scotland.
How to trade or move CITES-listed specimens through designated UK ports and airports.
How to manage racing pigeons, birds of prey and other captive birds during a bird flu (avian influenza) outbreak.
Find out what experience and references you need to support your application or registration, and what form your referees need to complete.
Where Great Britain will accept verifiable PDF GB health certificates from, to import live animals and animal products through TRACES or other systems.
This document provides advice on owning a horse, pony, donkey or hybrid.
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.
A list of places where you can bring consignments of plants, seeds and produce into the UK, including ports and airports.
Find out what to do and how much it costs to record allocation of off-site biodiversity gains to a development.
How to apply for an individual licence to release common pheasants and red-legged partridges on special protection areas, special areas of conservation, or within 500 metres of their boundaries – and report actions taken und…
Apply for a licence to kill or take fish-eating birds causing significant damage to a fishery, and report your actions.
How to get authorised as an OV, maintain your authorisation and set up a new practice, and what to do if you will be tuberculin (TB) skin testing.
Fees for testing animals for disease for export purposes, importing captive birds and Animal Breeding Control (ABC).
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