Guidance: Confined establishments approved to export ungulates to the EU

Lists of confined establishments in Great Britain, Jersey and the Isle of Man approved to export or move ungulates to the EU and Northern Ireland.




Guidance: Bluetongue movement licences and designated slaughterhouses

When you need to use a movement licence and designated slaughterhouses for bluetongue restricted premises.




Guidance: Pet travel: approved air, sea and rail carriers and routes

Check the transport companies and routes you can use to bring your pet cat, dog or ferret to England, Scotland or Wales.




Policy paper: Gamebirds: decision to issue the modified GL45 gamebird general licence for 2024 to 2025

How Defra arrived at its decision to issue the modified GL45 gamebird general licence, valid from 7 June 2024 to 1 February 2025, which replaces the version published on 22 March 2024.




Statutory guidance: Gamebirds: licence to release common pheasants or red-legged partridges on specified special protection areas or within 500m of their boundary (GL45) 

As a landowner, occupier or authorised person, use this general licence to release common pheasants or red-legged partridges on specified special protection areas or within their 500-metre buffer zones.