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Plant health controls, imports and exports, certification schemes, plant passporting and listed quarantine plant pests.
List of substances recognised as medicinal by function.
Find out about the eight-toothed spruce bark beetle (Ips typographus), including how to report sightings.
This document provides advice on owning a dog.
Guidance for cattle keepers on the bovine TB surveillance testing intervals for areas in England, Wales and Scotland.
Find out how to import timber and wood material, including the documents, identity checks and plant health inspections required.
Access APHA reports, videos, publications and data on livestock, wildlife and small animals in England and Wales.
Find out what you can do to prevent tree pests and diseases from establishing and spreading.
If you use, produce or supply wood packaging material (WPM) to move goods to or from the EU or the rest of the world, you must make sure it meets international standards.
List of words and phrases that will cause a veterinary product to be medicinal by presentation either through use or contextual use.
References and list of enforcement notices and prosecutions which involved illegal activity with animal medicines in the last year.
How to apply for authorisation to import, move or keep specified material and the fees you must pay.
Sign up to receive the latest news on exotic notifiable animal disease outbreaks in Great Britain.
How to import or move animal by-products from the EU to Great Britain.
Current rules for exporting horses and other equines (including ponies and donkeys) from the UK.
Fees for testing animals for disease for export purposes, importing captive birds and Animal Breeding Control (ABC).
Find out what happens when you report a notifiable animal disease and how to get support.
Registers of authorised manufacturers, wholesale dealer sites and retailers.
Code of recommendations and guidance for laying hens, meat chickens, ducks, turkeys and other birds bred on farms.
How to get authorised as an OV, maintain your authorisation and set up a new practice, and what to do if you will be tuberculin (TB) skin testing.
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