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Guidance for licensed operators to carry out cage-trapping and dispatch of badgers.
Details of premises approved to operate as exempt finishing units for cattle in England.
Guidance for owners of domestic goats in England and Scotland on tuberculosis (TB), how and why TB is tested for, and what happens if it's detected in goats.
Guidance for farmers and others who work with livestock on reducing the risk of human M. bovis infection.
How Defra processes your personal data when you register as an authorised person to get a licence to cage-trap badgers.
Guidance for cattle keepers in Scotland and Wales on why cattle are tested for bovine TB, how the tests are done and how to prepare for the tests.
Information note explaining changes to TB cattle movement controls to remove the pre-movement testing exemption for Sole Occupancy Authorities.
Details of premises approved to operate as exempt markets for cattle in England and Wales.
How to apply for a licence to hold a market in England and Wales to sell TB restricted cattle for slaughter, and the procedures to follow when a market is held.
How to submit claims invoices to the Animal and Plant Health Agency (APHA) if you're an Official Veterinarian (OV) working in England or Wales.
Information note on Bovine TB.
The workshops will involve farmers, vets and a range of other stakeholders with a particular interest in animal health and welfare.
Information note on Bovine TB: changes to TB Cattle Movement Controls ending the practice of de-restricting parts of TB-restricted holdings.
Information note on Bovine TB explains that we are re-opening the Badger Vaccination Fund for 2014.
Details of how the humaneness and effectiveness of badger culling, to prevent the spread of bovine TB in cattle, will be monitored in 2014.
General licence for the movement of cattle within officially bovine TB free herds held in annually tested sole occupancy authorities in England.
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