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How a marketing authorisation holder should report a defect with a veterinary medicine.
Use this general licence to keep disabled schedule 4 wild birds for up to 6 weeks to rehabilitate them.
Explains how the Animal Welfare Act 2006 applies to wildlife.
How to get approval to transport pet cats, dogs and ferrets, and when you must transport assistance dogs with their owners.
The CMA has launched a review into the veterinary services market for household pets.
Find out what documents you need, and records you must keep, to meet animal welfare in transport requirements.
Fees for animal by-product premises inspection and approval or conditional approval services provided by the Animal and Plant Health Agency (APHA).
What to do if you think you've seen a wildlife crime.
The Blue Book is a single collection of UK and EU laws.
Lists of confined establishments in Great Britain, Jersey and the Isle of Man approved to export or move ungulates to the EU and Northern Ireland.
As a landowner, occupier or authorised person, use this general licence to release common pheasants or red-legged partridges on specified special protection areas or within their 500-metre buffer zones.
Standard rules for discharges to surface water: cooling water and heat exchangers.
How to spot Echinococcus multilocularis, what to do if you suspect it and how to prevent its spread.
Wild animals cannot be exhibited or used in a performance as part of a travelling circus in England.
Licence to survey bats for conservation purposes.
Register as a manufacturer, importer or distributor of active substances for use in veterinary medicines.
Find out if your ivory item may qualify for the pre-1918 outstandingly high artistic, cultural or historical value exemption, how to apply and what to do if it is refused or revoked.
Find out what to do if you need to register a biodiversity gain site and record allocation of off-site biodiversity gains to a development at the same time.
Find out what a volunteer bat roost visitor (VBRV) does and how to get trained and licenced to carry out bat roost visits.
Standard rules for repairing and protecting up to 20 metres of main river bank using natural materials.
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