We use some essential cookies to make this website work.
We’d like to set additional cookies to understand how you use GOV.UK, remember your settings and improve government services.
We also use cookies set by other sites to help us deliver content from their services.
You have accepted additional cookies. You can change your cookie settings at any time.
You have rejected additional cookies. You can change your cookie settings at any time.
Departments, agencies and public bodies
News stories, speeches, letters and notices
Detailed guidance, regulations and rules
Reports, analysis and official statistics
Consultations and strategy
Data, Freedom of Information releases and corporate reports
Details of Minimum Conservation Reference Sizes (MCRS) in UK waters.
Reduce the risk of disease and find out where listed diseases have been confirmed in England and Wales
Common user charge rates and how the charge applies to imports entering Great Britain through the Port of Dover and Eurotunnel.
Access APHA reports, videos, publications and data on livestock, wildlife and small animals in England and Wales.
Find out how to buy statutory biodiversity credits.
Records that must be kept when supplying or administering veterinary medicines in the UK.
Check open environmental data and use it in your own applications.
How local authorities can select a site, and then declare and manage it as a local nature reserve (LNR).
Standards for the care and accommodation of animals required by the Animals (Scientific) Procedures Act 1986 and advice on how to comply with the standards.
Send samples (classified as UN3373 biological substance category B) to APHA according to the ADR regulations and P650 packing instructions.
Guidance for the pharmaceutical industry on Marketing Authorisations for veterinary medicines in the UK.
Animal by-products (ABPs) you can use to make pet food, how to provide samples, and how to package your products.
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.
Ecologists can use European protected species (EPS) policies on development sites to benefit EPS by changing survey, mitigation or compensation methods.
Placing a veterinary medicine on the market, including non-medicinal products, medicinal words and phrases, how to obtain advice, report non-compliance.
How land managers can combine biodiversity units and nutrient credits, and sell them alongside other environmental payments.
Guidance for policy and decision makers to help them consider the value of a natural capital approach.
Actions to be taken by Marketing Authorisation Holders in order to supply veterinary medicines to Northern Ireland from 1 January 2026.
How to assess a planning application when there are otters on or near a proposed development site.
Find out what you can do to prevent tree pests and diseases from establishing and spreading.
Don’t include personal or financial information like your National Insurance number or credit card details.
To help us improve GOV.UK, we’d like to know more about your visit today. Please fill in this survey (opens in a new tab and requires JavaScript).