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Check if you need a licence or phytosanitary certificate to export or move plants and plant products.
How to apply for licences and stay compliant if you use, breed or supply animals under the Animals (Scientific Procedures) Act 1986.
How to assess a planning application when there are bats on or near a proposed development site.
North West and Border Esk byelaws are statutory rules (regulated by law) and regulations explaining who can fish, where, when and what fish you can take.
Apply to import a medicine for veterinary use into the UK.
How to assess a planning application when there are protected species on or near a proposed development site.
What you must do to avoid harming badgers and when you’ll need a licence.
Guidance for businesses that import meat, dairy, eggs and animal products for human consumption. Check import rules, restrictions and what documents you need.
Licences and authorisations to import genetic material, research and diagnostic samples, trade samples and display items, and some live animals and animal products.
Information for developers and local planning authorities explaining statutory biodiversity credits, and the process of buying them.
Find out when you must use a Defra-approved disinfectant, which product to use, and in what concentration.
What you need to do if you find, own or look after a listed invasive non-native (alien) animal in England and Wales.
Find out which licence you might need to carry out work that affects wildlife and its habitat, how to apply and when you might need to pay.
How to import plants, fruit, vegetables, cut flowers, trees, seeds and used agricultural machinery to Great Britain (England, Scotland and Wales) from the EU, Liechtenstein and Switzerland.
Prescribing or supplying veterinary medicines including requirements for registration and inspection of premises.
What you need to do if you keep, grow, find or sell certain invasive plant species and your responsibilities to prevent their spread.
When you need a licence, when you can burn and how to burn safely.
How to import or move live animals and germinal products from the EU to Great Britain.
Biosecurity and hygiene standards to keep birds safe from bird flu (avian influenza).
What you must do to protect the welfare of animals during transport.
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