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Reminder: CAP Conversion Conditions
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Marketing Authorisation holders who converted centralised products into GB MAs from 1 January 2021 are reminded to complete the actions necessary to retain continued authorisation.
Parallel submission of generic applications
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Supplementary guidance concerning parallel submissions made to GB and NI, including those submitted under the decentralised procedure.
Extension to submission slots requirement
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Requirement for submission slots for applications for Biological and Bio-Pharm new or extension variation marketing authorisation applications.
Details of the joint VMD and VPC open information event.
Top ten imported veterinary medicines - Quarterly report 1 July 2021 to 30 September 2021
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Top ten imported veterinary medicines - Quarterly report 1 July 2021 to 30 September 2021.
Details of the first VMD Veterinary Wholesale Qualified Person training day.
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What Veterinary Medicines Directorate does
The Veterinary Medicines Directorate (VMD) protects animal health, public health and the environment.
VMD is an executive agency, sponsored by the Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs.
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Policy papers and consultations
- Defra group equality, diversity and inclusion strategy 2020 to 2024
- Review of approach to issuing animal test certificates for veterinary medicines
Transparency and freedom of information releases
- Veterinary Medicines Directorate annual report and accounts 2020 to 2021
- FOI requests received by the VMD between 1 July to 31 December 2019
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Contact VMD
Office contact and enquiries
Woodham Lane
New Haw
Addlestone
Surrey
KT15 3LS
United Kingdom
Switchboard (8.30am-5pm Mon-Thurs; 8.30am-4.30pm Fri)
01932 336911
Find us here (copy and paste link into your browser)
http://bit.ly/1VkuifV
We are currently a virtual office so please do not send post as it will not be opened for some time, contact postmaster if you have an enquiry.
Please do not use the postmaster email address to report an adverse event to a veterinary medicine; use the link at the top of the page 'Report an Adverse Event'
Special import, export and batch release
Import Certificates
importcert@vmd.gov.uk
Export Certificates
exportcert@vmd.gov.uk
Batch Release
batchr@vmd.gov.uk
The special import, export, and batch release schemes are all digital services run by a team that only deal with queries by email (please do not ring the VMD about matters in relation to any of these schemes)
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- Read about the Freedom of Information (FOI) Act and how to make a request.
- Check our previous releases to see if we’ve already answered your question.
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