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Register for a licence to survey great crested newts for scientific, research or educational purposes, including informing development projects – and report actions taken under a licence.
What you must do to avoid harming birds and when you’ll need a licence.
The legal text underpinning the regulation of manufacture, authorisation, marketing, distribution, use and post-authorisation surveillance of veterinary medicines and medicated feed.
How to assess a planning application when there are badgers on or near a proposed development site.
How developers can use habitat creation or enhancements to count towards their biodiversity net gain (BNG).
From 7 October 2025, dogs commercially imported from Romania must have a negative Brucella canis test result. Find out how to send samples to Great Britain for testing.
Check the definition of composite products and understand the import rules and restrictions, depending on the ingredients in your food product.
Get consent to introduce (site permit) or remove fish (excluding fish farms): application forms and rules.
What you need to do as a developer to meet biodiversity net gain (BNG) requirements.
List of organisations that issue horse passports in Great Britain and Northern Ireland.
How to get a licence to sell animals as pets, and the conditions you'll need to meet.
How to understand each part of your fishing vessel licence – vessel details, conditions, schedule, annex and their current copies.
Information for developers on how to avoid harming protected areas and species during development work.
Find the 2022 update to the river basin management plans which describe the challenges that threaten the water environment and how these challenges can be managed.
How to sell biodiversity units to developers for biodiversity net gain: explore the market, register a gain site and record allocations.
How biodiversity net gain (BNG) applies to irreplaceable habitat.
How to control rabbits on your property or business using traps, snares and other methods.
Rules for importing, exporting and moving fresh fruit and vegetables to, from and around the UK.
This is the Hub for all the Veterinary Medicines Directorate's communications on current and future regulatory changes.
Register for a licence to survey bats using torches for scientific, research or educational purposes, including informing development projects - and report actions taken under the licence.
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