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Guidance for private laboratories, organisations and individuals who test or examine animals for listed diseases.
When you can bring seal, walrus and sea lion products into Great Britain. How recognised authorities can get approval to export seal products to Great Britain for trade.
All references to Area VII are to Area VII within British Fishery Limits only. Details of the approach to managing the over 15 metre Area VII crab and scallop fishing sector to keep the fishery within UK effort limits.
How to apply for a licence to capture, transport and re-release beavers or modify or remove beaver dams, burrows and lodges at any time of year.
Guidance for fish passes where existing obstructions prevent the safe passage of eel and elver travelling up stream.
How to keep farmed goats, and your responsibilities for their health, housing and feed.
How your personal information is used when you report dead wild birds.
Get a general licence to sell black-headed gull eggs for human consumption if you're a retailer or restaurateur.
Find out how to import species of bonsai to Great Britain from Japan and Korea, who you can import from, and what the quarantine rules are.
How to assess a planning application when there are natterjack toads on or near a proposed development site.
Urgent and clinically significant safety updates arising from pharmacovigilance data, including reported adverse events, for veterinary medicines authorised in the UK.
The code provides game farmers with information on how to meet the welfare needs of their animals, required in the Animal Welfare Act 2006.
How to be approved as a compartment that meets EU or GB enhanced standards by protecting your poultry farm or hatchery against disease.
Defra has produced the following guidance for IFCAs to help them understand and fulfil their role.
This document sets down how inspection and approval is carried out in the United Kingdom.
How to spot contagious equine metritis, what to do if you suspect it and measures to prevent its spread.
This note provides guidance on the methods which can be used to control the five injurious (harmful) weeds specified in the Weeds Act 1959.
Find out how to import live amphibians of the order Caudata (salamanders and newts)
Enabling safe and sustainable marine economies across Commonwealth Small Island Developing States (SIDS).
Get a general licence to take mallard duck eggs for incubation and rearing in captivity as long as you release them later in the year.
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