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Find out how to import timber and wood material, including the documents, identity checks and plant health inspections required.
South East byelaws are statutory (regulated by law) rules and regulations explaining who can fish, where, when and what fish you can take.
What you must do to avoid harming great crested newts and when you’ll need a licence.
This is the Hub for all the Veterinary Medicines Directorate's communications on current and future regulatory changes.
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.
List of organisations that issue horse passports in Great Britain and Northern Ireland.
Use this service to estimate the cost of statutory biodiversity credits for a development.
How to assess a planning application when there are great crested newts on or near a proposed development site.
Current rules for exporting horses and other equines (including ponies and donkeys) from the UK.
When your pet must go in quarantine, how to book a pet carrier and quarantine premises, and how to get your pet released from quarantine.
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.
This document provides advice on owning a dog.
Check the air, sea and rail carriers registered with the Animal and Plant Health Agency to transport assistance dogs with their owners.
Plant health controls, imports and exports, certification schemes, plant passporting and listed quarantine plant pests.
The legal text underpinning the regulation of manufacture, authorisation, marketing, distribution, use and post-authorisation surveillance of veterinary medicines and medicated feed.
Get consent to introduce (site permit) or remove fish (excluding fish farms): application forms and rules.
Biosecurity and hygiene standards to keep animals safe from bluetongue virus.
Send samples (classified as UN3373 biological substance category B) to APHA according to the ADR regulations and P650 packing instructions.
How to create and implement a conservation covenant agreement to preserve your land in England.
How veterinary medicines can be advertised.
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