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As a vet or pharmacist, you must follow legal requirements when working with controlled drugs in veterinary medicine.
Apply to import a medicine for veterinary use into the UK.
Prescribing or supplying veterinary medicines including requirements for registration and inspection of premises.
Information on BTV-3 vaccines including permits and licences.
Guidance for prescribing vets on the use of the cascade.
You must get permission to export certain drugs and medicines.
Summary of product characteristics for Bultavo-3 BTV-3 vaccine in the UK
Service for Marketing Authorisation Holders, Manufacturers and Wholesalers.
References and list of enforcement notices and prosecutions which involved illegal activity with animal medicines in the last year.
This is the Hub for all the Veterinary Medicines Directorate's communications on current and future regulatory changes.
Records that must be kept when supplying or administering veterinary medicines in the UK.
Apply for an import certificate to import a medicinal product into the UK for veterinary use.
The legal text underpinning the regulation of manufacture, authorisation, marketing, distribution, use and post-authorisation surveillance of veterinary medicines and medicated feed.
Guidance for the veterinary pharmaceutical industry on applying for maximum residue limits (MRLs) in the UK.
How to contact the VMD for specific services or enquiries.
The Veterinary Medicines Regulations require wholesale dealers in Great Britain to adhere to Good Distribution Practice for all distribution processes.
Guidance for the pharmaceutical industry on Marketing Authorisations for veterinary medicines in the UK.
Actions to be taken by Marketing Authorisation Holders in order to supply veterinary medicines to Northern Ireland from 1 January 2026.
Who in the pharmaceutical industry can be a Marketing Authorisation Holder, named distributor or local representative and how to make changes to these.
Urgent and clinically significant safety updates arising from pharmacovigilance data, including reported adverse events, for veterinary medicines authorised in the UK.
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