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What pet owners need to do if their animal has suspected or confirmed bovine TB.
Understand the import rules for food products that contain multiple products of animal origin (POAO).
As a planning authority, find out how to review applications that might affect protected sites and areas.
How to assess a planning application when there are water voles on or near a proposed development site.
How to get a handling or storage site approved, how to store animal by-products (ABPs) and derived products, and how to build the site.
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.
How to operate a zoo, including understanding licences and inspections.
Registers of authorised manufacturers, wholesale dealer sites and retailers.
The conditions you must follow if you carry out cage trapping and dispatch of wild birds under Defra and Natural England licences.
As a land owner, occupier or authorised person, use this general licence to kill or take certain species of wild birds to conserve wild birds, flora or fauna of conservation concern.
Information about Sevington BCP and the checks that take place there.
Apply for an authorisation to manufacture extemporaneous preparations, autogenous vaccines, stem cell products or blood products for non-food animals.
Explainer on product information templates to be used by applicants and Marketing Authorisation Holders (MAHs) of veterinary medicines.
This Code of Practice (the Code) applies to all cats.
Wreck and salvage laws, the role of the Receiver of the Wreck, wreck owners and salvors and how to report wreck material.
How to get your site approved, the category your site falls into, the type of incinerator you need and how it must be maintained.
Explainer for the rules for advertising products used in, on or near animals that are not licensed veterinary medicines.
How vets in England and Wales can submit samples to APHA for non-statutory diagnostic testing.
Benefit-Risk Submission Report (BRSR) and Pharmacovigilance Sales Submission (PSS) templates and guidance for completion of BRSRs, PSSs and signal notifications.
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