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How to export certain types of regulated wood, wood products and bark from Great Britain to the world.
Find out when you must consult Natural England or the Environment Agency if you're preparing plans or considering development proposals.
Register for a licence to survey barn owls to assess the effect of a development project on them.
Information on the designation of UK ports for direct landings by foreign vessels and UK vessels according to licence conditions.
Find out how to import species of bonsai to Great Britain from Japan and Korea, who you can import from, and what the quarantine rules are.
How to apply for a licence to modify or remove dams, burrows and lodges at any time of year.
This guide gives an overview of plant health legislation for forestry in England for Forestry Commission staff and contract inspectors working in the sector.
Guidance for vets on brucella canis from the Animal and Plant Health Agency (APHA).
Guidance for the pharmaceutical industry on how to apply for an authorisation to place a veterinary medicine on the UK market or part of, or to expire one.
Find out which plants are banned from sale, which need a licence and how to get a licence.
How to assess a planning application when there are invertebrates on or near a proposed development site.
How to assess a planning application when there are protected wild plants, fungi or lichens on or near a proposed development site.
How MMO byelaws are made and what they protect.
As an authorised person, use this general licence to keep disabled schedule 4 wild birds for up to 15 days to rehabilitate them.
How to take samples and choose an appropriate diagnostic test for common clinical presentations in livestock and wildlife.
A list of trade term codes to provide a description of your specimen to Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES).
How to comply with the exemption from the Veterinary Medicines Regulations that allow certain animal medicines to be sold without a marketing authorisation.
Guidance for the veterinary pharmaceutical industry on the production of mock-ups for assessment.
What to do if you think you've seen a wildlife crime.
How Defra and Natural England license the control of certain wild bird species.
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