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Licences and authorisations to import genetic material, research and diagnostic samples, trade samples and display items, and some live animals and animal products.
How to keep the personal and business details you register with the Rural Payments Agency up to date.
Guidance on the Animal and Plant Health Agency laboratory testing services and prices for animal disease diagnosis.
Register of nutrition and health claims that may be made in commercial communications in Great Britain.
Register and manage your access to EHC Online using Government Gateway and your Defra account.
Labelling rules for businesses in Great Britain (England, Scotland and Wales) and retailers in Northern Ireland, for certain agri-food products moved under the Northern Ireland Retail Movement Scheme.
Apply for a specific licence for any movement in a bluetongue zone not covered by a general licence.
What you must do when you keep livestock or manage land.
How to report sheep and goat movements to the Livestock Information Service.
How to safely and legally dispose of dead farm animals and horses.
Find out if you can remove or work on countryside hedgerows.
How to use the Rural Payments service to register land and update digital maps.
Establishments approved to export animals and animal products to Great Britain (England, Scotland and Wales) and how competent authorities can change the establishment list.
Details of approved and registered animal by-product (ABP) operating plants in Great Britain and the Channel Islands.
Quality and labelling rules for growing, packing, distributing, importing and selling fresh fruit and vegetables.
Check if your business in Great Britain or one of the Crown Dependencies is approved to export to the EU and find out what your TRACES number is.
What packaged goods are, how they are labelled, units of measurements used and compliance with weights and measures regulation.
How to legally kill your own poultry, cattle, pigs, sheep, goats, rabbits and hares to eat at home.
How to import or move live animals and germinal products from the EU to Great Britain.
How to get authorised as an OV, maintain your authorisation and set up a new practice, and what to do if you will be tuberculin (TB) skin testing.
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