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  • Apply for a specific licence for any movement in a bluetongue zone not covered by a general licence.

  • What happens when Rural Payments Agency field officers visit your holding, including checks on tagging, holding registers and movement records.

  • How to get and maintain an ATT qualification, and what to do if you want to end your authorisation.

  • Clarifications on the certification of animal products for imports of medium risk animal products, for use by vets, importers and border officials.

  • Guidance for vets, importers and border control officials when importing animal products that are being returned to Great Britain.

  • You must get a movement licence for animals that have been refused a passport, animals born before 1 August 1996 and unregistered calves.

  • How to spot Newcastle disease, what to do if you suspect it and measures to prevent its spread.

  • Private veterinary surgeons (PVS) can use this service to report the prescription of a BTV-3 vaccination.

  • When and how to test for salmonella if you breed chickens, and what happens if a flock tests positive. Testing is part of the salmonella national control programme (NCP).

  • Details of poultry establishments that are approved members of the Poultry Health Scheme (PHS).

  • Guidance for vets, importers and border control officials when importing composite products for human consumption to Great Britain.

  • General licence for the movement of resolved inconclusive reactors from officially TB free cattle herds in England or Wales directly or indirectly to slaughter.

  • What to include in a holding register, including how to record pig movements and taking an annual inventory.

  • Rules food businesses should follow for any meat produced from poultry or farmed game birds originating within a disease control zone.

  • Cattle keepers must only buy ear tags from suppliers that have been approved by the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs.

  • How to take samples and choose an appropriate diagnostic test for common clinical presentations in livestock and wildlife.

  • These terms and conditions explain the customer's rights and responsibilities in using Cattle Tracing System (CTS) Online, Animal Movement Licencing System (AMLS) and Livestock Unique Identification Service (LUIS) and th…

  • Advisory note from the UK Chief Veterinary Officer for veterinarians prescribing BTV-3 vaccines.

  • Vets can sign up to get text or email alerts from the Animal and Plant Health Agency (APHA) for animal health threats for livestock and small animals.

  • How to meet statutory bovine TB testing requirements when moving cattle in Great Britain (England, Wales and Scotland), and across their borders.