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For manufacturers and distributors of intermediate and final feedingstuffs containing a medicinal premix or specified feed additives in Great Britain and Northern Ireland.
This document provides advice on owning a horse, pony, donkey or hybrid.
This Handbook sets out a standard way of recording hedgerows.
APHA detects and investigates new and re-emerging diseases in animals in England and Wales.
Send samples (classified as UN3373 biological substance category B) to APHA according to the ADR regulations and P650 packing instructions.
Rules to follow if you’re moving animals or animal products from one country to another and transiting through Great Britain (England, Scotland and Wales), known as ‘landbridge’ movements.
How to assess a planning application when there are water voles on or near a proposed development site.
How vets in England and Wales can submit carcases to APHA for a post-mortem examination.
The variation effective from 00:01hrs Sunday 19 October 2025
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.
Find out if your ivory item may qualify for the pre-1918 outstandingly high artistic, cultural or historical value exemption, how to apply and what to do if it is refused or revoked.
Guidance for the pharmaceutical industry on how to apply to vary a veterinary Marketing Authorisation (MA) or Homeopathic Remedy.
How to comply with the exemption from the Veterinary Medicines Regulations that allow certain animal medicines to be sold without a marketing authorisation.
Apply for a licence to kill or take fish-eating birds causing significant damage to a fishery, and report your actions.
Steps land managers can take to sell biodiversity units to meet their biodiversity net gain (BNG) requirements.
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.
Where Great Britain will accept verifiable PDF GB health certificates from, to import live animals and animal products through TRACES or other systems.
Invited applicants can apply for a grant to add a veranda onto, or to upgrade or replace existing laying hen or pullet housing to improve animal health and welfare.
Details of Minimum Conservation Reference Sizes (MCRS) in UK waters.
Who in the pharmaceutical industry can be a Marketing Authorisation Holder, named distributor or local representative and how to make changes to these.
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