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  • Animal by-products (ABPs) you can use to make pet food, how to provide samples, and how to package your products.

  • Access APHA reports, videos, publications and data on livestock, wildlife and small animals in England and Wales.

  • Powers that police, councils and other authorities can use to control or improve the behaviour of dogs.

  • How to understand each part of your fishing vessel licence – vessel details, conditions, schedule, annex and their current copies.

  • How to import or move fish for human consumption to the UK.

  • Fees for testing animals for disease for export purposes, importing captive birds and Animal Breeding Control (ABC).

  • Find out how to import timber and wood material, including the documents, identity checks and plant health inspections required.

  • The legal text underpinning the regulation of manufacture, authorisation, marketing, distribution, use and post-authorisation surveillance of veterinary medicines and medicated feed.

  • 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.

  • Details of Minimum Conservation Reference Sizes (MCRS) in UK waters.

  • Sheep and goat owners and keepers must follow the conditions of this licence when they move sheep or goats.

  • This document provides advice on owning a dog.

  • Send samples (classified as UN3373 biological substance category B) to APHA according to the ADR regulations and P650 packing instructions.

  • Common user charge rates and how the charge applies to imports entering Great Britain through the Port of Dover and Eurotunnel.

  • Find out what you can do to prevent tree pests and diseases from establishing and spreading.

  • How to trade or move CITES-listed specimens through designated UK ports and airports.

  • Understand which licence you need to bring together captive birds, and the rules you must follow to prevent the spread of bird flu.

  • Guidance for policy and decision makers to help them consider the value of a natural capital approach.

  • How local authorities can select a site, and then declare and manage it as a local nature reserve.

  • Check if your item is a ‘worked specimen’ and does not need an Article 10 certificate for commercial use of endangered species.