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Find out about the process and costs to apply for Defra disinfectant approval.
How to apply for authorisation to import, move or keep specified material and the fees you must pay.
Use this service to register your fishery, cropping water, aquaponics system.
Benefit-Risk Submission Report (BRSR) and Pharmacovigilance Sales Submission (PSS) templates and guidance for completion of BRSRs, PSSs and signal notifications.
When you need a licence, when you can burn and how to burn safely.
Guidance for the veterinary pharmaceutical industry on applying for maximum residue limits (MRLs) in the UK.
Find out what you can do to prevent tree pests and diseases from establishing and spreading.
How to set up a compost or biogas site, UK and EU standards explained, and alternative treatment methods for animal by-products (ABPs).
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.
Apply for a licence to kill or take fish-eating birds causing significant damage to a fishery, and report your actions.
How to assess a planning application when there are reptiles on or near a proposed development site.
Industry webinars on the main changes affecting veterinary surgeons, wholesalers and retailers supplying veterinary medicines in Northern Ireland.
Ecologists can use European protected species (EPS) policies on development sites to benefit EPS by changing survey, mitigation or compensation methods.
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.
For manufacturers and distributors of intermediate and final feedingstuffs containing a medicinal premix or specified feed additives in Great Britain and Northern Ireland.
Animal and Plant Health Agency (APHA) contact details for private vets, Official Veterinarians, and others in an official capacity.
Understand the import rules for food products that contain multiple products of animal origin (POAO).
This document provides advice on owning a horse, pony, donkey or hybrid.
This Handbook sets out a standard way of recording hedgerows.
Find out about the different marine species and how they are protected UK wildlife legislation.
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