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Call for public and UK beekeepers to keep watch and report any sightings of Asian hornets this summer.
When you need to use a movement licence and designated slaughterhouses for bluetongue restricted premises.
How to report dead wild birds.
Preliminary outbreak assessments, qualitative risk assessments and updated situation assessments for bluetongue virus in Europe.
Find out how the Animal and Plant Health Agency (APHA) handles your personal data.
Dr Jenny Stewart takes up the role safeguarding animal and plant health for the benefit of people, the environment and the economy
Import risk categories under the Border Target Operating Model (BTOM) for animals or animal products you’re importing from a non-EU country to Great Britain (England, Scotland and Wales), the import rules and inspection rate…
Import risk categories under the Border Target Operating Model (BTOM) for animals or animal products you’re importing from the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland, Liechtenstein, the Faroe Islands and Greenland to Great Britain…
Apply online to export pet birds like pigeons, cockatoos, budgerigars, macaws and parrots, excluding poultry, to Hong Kong.
Competent authorities of exporting countries should use the relevant model health certificate as a template to create a version exporters can apply for to export petfood to Great Britain, the Channel Islands or Isle of Man.
Find an approved UK border control post (BCP) to check the animals, animal products or high-risk food and feed of non-animal origin (HRFNAO) in your consignment.
How to get trained to set cage traps for, vaccinate and mark badgers.
Quarterly reports published by the GB Wildlife Disease Surveillance Partnership on the monitoring of disease in wildlife.
Apply online to export reptiles and amphibians to Spain.
Apply online to export cats or dogs to the Philippines.
Collection thresholds for dead wild birds with suspected bird flu (avian influenza).
Institutes, centres and premises in Great Britain approved to move animals, semen and embryos covered by the Balai Directive.
Information on practices and procedures covered under the Plant Varieties Act 1997, the Plant Breeders’ Rights Regulations 1998 and the Seeds Regulations 2001.
Guidance for private laboratories, organisations and individuals who test or examine animals for listed diseases.
A list of organisations in England, Scotland and Wales that inspect and certify animals and animal products for export. The list does not include every certifier.
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