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Seeking views on proposals to update the regulations for trading in endangered species in the United Kingdom.
What the government is doing to protect animals and prevent animal disease outbreaks so that disease doesn't enter the food chain.
First published during the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government
AHWBE recommendation on taking forward a limited study to into compensation for Bovine TB
Seeking views on proposed changes to how bulk milk tank sampling will be carried out for producer-retailers in England.
Seeking views on changing what needs to be recorded in holding registers for bovine animals brought onto holdings in England.
Information and data on monitoring of the second year of the badger culls to control Bovine Tuberculosis in West Somerset and West Gloucestershire in 2014.
Information about state aid re-registration for the TB controls compensation and support to cattle keepers in England scheme.
Information about state aid re-registration for the surveillance monitoring programme for Aujeszky’s disease in Great Britain.
Sets out the disease control measures we would consider if bluetongue virus was suspected or confirmed in farm animals.
Seeking views on amending the law for the control of exotic diseases of pigs.
Seeking informal views on how moving to full cost recovery will impact you and your business.
Consultation on the electronic movement reporting system (including an underpinning database) for sheep, goats and deer (England) and proposed changes to the way in which sheep and goats are identified.
Seeking views on proposals to reform the governance, structure and operation of the Farriers Registration Council (FRC).
Application to the European Union in respect of state aids for testing cattle, sheep and goats for transmissible spongiform encephalopathies.
Defra welcomes this study which provides reassuring evidence of the quality of EID tags on sale.
List of the initial results from an exercise to identify ex situ collections of FAnGR in the UK.
The Animal Health and Welfare framework was introduced after the Foot and Mouth Disease (FMD) outbreak in 2001.
The Animal Health and Welfare framework was introduced after the Foot and Mouth Disease (FMD) outbreak in 2001, and is usually updated annually.
AHWBE Recommendation on a 3 stage process for reinforcing the current disease control regime for camelids and other non-bovine species.
The African Horse Sickness Control Strategy guides the reader through new African horse sickness legislation in England, Scotland and Wales.
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