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Apply to import a medicine for veterinary use into the UK.
This is the Hub for all the Veterinary Medicines Directorate's communications on current and future regulatory changes.
As a vet or pharmacist, you must follow legal requirements when working with controlled drugs in veterinary medicine.
Guidance for prescribing vets on the use of the cascade.
Prescribing or supplying veterinary medicines including requirements for registration and inspection of premises.
The legal text underpinning the regulation of manufacture, authorisation, marketing, distribution, use and post-authorisation surveillance of veterinary medicines and medicated feed.
You must get permission to export certain drugs and medicines.
Apply for an import certificate to import a medicinal product into the UK for veterinary use.
Guidance for the pharmaceutical industry on Marketing Authorisations for veterinary medicines in the UK.
Explainer on product information templates to be used by applicants and Marketing Authorisation Holders (MAHs) of veterinary medicines.
Records that must be kept when supplying or administering veterinary medicines in the UK.
Service for Marketing Authorisation Holders, Manufacturers and Wholesalers.
Legal requirements for the sale of veterinary medicines on the internet and the VMD Accredited Internet Retailer Scheme (AIRS).
How to contact the VMD for specific services or enquiries.
How to comply with the exemption from the Veterinary Medicines Regulations that allow certain animal medicines to be sold without a marketing authorisation.
Who in the pharmaceutical industry can be a Marketing Authorisation Holder, named distributor or local representative and how to make changes to these.
Registers of authorised manufacturers, wholesale dealer sites and retailers.
Guidance for the veterinary pharmaceutical industry on the production and submission of the Summary of Product Characteristics (SPCs) and product literature mock-ups.
Apply for authorisation of premises for the retail supply of POM-VPS and NFA-VPS veterinary medicines by suitably qualified persons (SQPs).
Explainer for businesses and persons regulated by the Veterinary Medicines Regulations 2013, as amended, on the transitional provisions included in the amending legislation: the Veterinary Medicines (Amendment etc.) Regulati…
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