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Check if a country or territory is approved to export animals and animal products to Great Britain (England, Scotland and Wales).
Check the land details you have registered on the Rural Payments service.
How to use the Rural Payments service to register land and update digital maps.
Check the definition of composite products and understand the import rules and restrictions, depending on the ingredients in your food product.
What a movement is, who needs to report moves, and how to prepare to move sheep and goats.
The licence or certificate you need to slaughter or kill animals, the operations covered and how to apply.
What livestock keepers must do when they intend to use someone else's land or buildings temporarily.
Get a breed code to register a cattle, bison or buffalo birth.
Quality and labelling rules for growing, packing, distributing, importing and selling fresh fruit and vegetables.
How growers and traders can get authorised as a professional operator to issue plant passports and when you need to be authorised.
What cattle keepers must record and report when they move cattle, bison or buffalo and the deadlines.
List of organisations that issue horse passports in Great Britain and Northern Ireland.
Guidance on how to move goods from Great Britain to Northern Ireland under the scheme, including general certificates, additional documents (packing lists), seals and checks.
Establishments approved to export animals and animal products to Great Britain (England, Scotland and Wales) and how competent authorities can change the establishment list.
Services provided and contact details for Veterinary Investigation Centres (VICs) and surveillance pathology partners in England and Wales.
Find out when you must label your meat, fish or seafood product with its country of origin.
This guidance and starter guide has been issued in order to comply with Regulation (EC) 1924/2006 on nutrition and health claims made on foods.
When and how to identify your lambs and sheep with tags.
How food shops, manufacturers, and distributors must dispose of or handle former foodstuffs or food waste.
Collection of guidance for moving plants and seeds for planting, used agricultural and forestry machinery, and seed potatoes from GB to NI using the NIPHL scheme.
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