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Find out about the process and costs to apply for Defra disinfectant approval.
Find out how to buy statutory biodiversity credits.
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 at the same time.
The licence sets out where you can fish, what you are not allowed to fish and the limits for the stocks you are allowed to fish and land.
Laws and regulations protecting farm animals at shows and markets, including the suitability of pens, cages or hutches
How vets in England and Wales can submit carcases to APHA for a post-mortem examination.
Institutes, centres and premises in Great Britain approved to move animals, semen and embryos covered by the Balai Directive.
Guidance for the pharmaceutical industry on how to apply to vary a veterinary Marketing Authorisation (MA) or Homeopathic Remedy.
When and how to take samples for the salmonella national control programme (NCP) if you’re an egg producer, and what happens if a laying flock tests positive.
Standing advice for local planning authorities, developers and ecologists for assessing the impacts of wind farms on wild birds.
Where you can build a pet cemetery, the animals you can bury there, how it must be built and how to register.
How to use a comma-separated values (CSV) file when uploading commodity details about plants and plant products to the Import of products, animals, food and feed system (IPAFFS).
Who can fish commercially, who can buy and sell first-sale fish, how to report sales information.
When you can get permission to catch eel or elver by trap or net in England. How to apply and rules to follow.
Send samples (classified as UN3373 biological substance category B) to APHA according to the ADR regulations and P650 packing instructions.
Standard rules for repairing and protecting up to 20 metres of main river bank using natural materials.
Complete declaration forms as part of an application for a bat mitigation licence.
How to spot Echinococcus multilocularis, what to do if you suspect it and how to prevent its spread.
Apply for a licence to introduce, keep or farm non-native fish, lobsters and crayfish.
APHA detects and investigates new and re-emerging diseases in animals in England and Wales.
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