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Guidance for exporters in EU and non-EU countries on how to complete health certificates to export animals and animal products to Great Britain.
Information about Sevington BCP and the checks that take place there.
Understand the import rules for food products that contain multiple products of animal origin (POAO).
Information on what a border control post (BCP) is and the sanitary and phytosanitary (SPS) checks that take place there.
Find out how to use nets or traps to catch birds in food premises and safely release them within the terms of your licence.
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.
Where you can build a pet cemetery, the animals you can bury there, how it must be built and how to register.
Posters to help you keep your birds safe from bird flu.
Details of Minimum Conservation Reference Sizes (MCRS) in UK waters.
How to check if an ivory item you're buying or hiring has been registered or certified as exempt, and what you need to do as a new owner.
How to export certain types of regulated wood, wood products and bark from Great Britain to the world.
Send samples (classified as UN3373 biological substance category B) to APHA according to the ADR regulations and P650 packing instructions.
Guidance on listed diseases of fish and shellfish and their status in England and Wales, including what happens if a disease is suspected or confirmed.
Follow the code and guidance if you’re considering a species reintroduction or other conservation translocation. Use the forms to record your project and apply for a conservation translocation licence.
Placing a veterinary medicine on the market, including non-medicinal products, how to obtain advice and report non-compliance.
Pig owners and keepers must follow the conditions of this licence when they move pigs.
Find out how to protect wildlife and habitats and apply for wildlife licences so you can legally operate in woodlands and forests.
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.
How to obtain an authorisation to wholesale veterinary medicines.
How to submit an application, data package and responses for proposed or existing marketing authorisations.
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