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How to apply for an authorisation to manufacture authorised veterinary medicines or medicines marketed under the Exemptions for small pet animals.
How to manage beaver activities on your land without a licence and when you need a licence.
Environment Agency regulatory position on low risk abstraction for nature recovery actions and fish or eel passage
Find out what to do if you need to register a biodiversity gain site and record allocation of off-site biodiversity gains to a development with planning permission at the same time.
Explanation of what Pharmacovigilance means and who is responsible. These documents must be read with the Implementation Explainer at VMD Information Hub.
This code of practice was in force from December 2014 to June 2026.
The designated land, sea and air ports for trading or moving CITES endangered animals, plants or their parts and derivatives.
How to assess a planning application when there are water voles on or near a proposed development site.
For manufacturers and distributors of intermediate and final feedingstuffs containing a medicinal premix or specified feed additives in Great Britain and Northern Ireland.
How to register veterinary practice premises for veterinary surgeons to supply veterinary medicines.
Technical advice and guidance for licence holders.
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.
How authorised veterinary medicines, products supplied under the cascade and products used under the Veterinary Medicines Internal Market Scheme and Veterinary Medicines Health Situation Scheme can be advertised.
Information about Sevington BCP and the checks that take place there.
How to apply for a licence to import, release or keep non-native animals.
Find out what experience and references you need to support your application, and find the form for your referees to complete.
This document provides advice on owning a horse, pony, donkey or hybrid.
Find out how to protect wildlife and habitats and apply for wildlife licences so you can legally operate in woodlands and forests.
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.
How to get a county parish holding (CPH) number to move racing pigeons from England to the EU or Northern Ireland for racing back to Great Britain.
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