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Guidance: Balai Directive: approved premises

Animal Plant Health Agency

May 19
13:21 2023

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Institutes and centres which import and export certain animals under Council Directive 92/65/EEC (Balai Directive) must be approved by the Animal and Plant Health Agency (APHA).

APHA approve and inspect these premises on behalf of Defra, the Scottish Government and the Welsh Government.

Find out the process for moving animals covered by the Balai Directive in the guidance on the Balai Directive.

Published 1 January 2013
Last updated 19 May 2023 +show all updates
  1. We have updated the approval date for Camperdown Wildlife, Twycross Zoo and the Royal Zoological Society of Scotland. We also added Paradise Park to the list.

  2. We updated the approval date for the Gauntlet Bird of Prey & Vulture Park and the Welsh Hawking Centre.

  3. We updated the approval dates for the Animal Welfare Centre, Animal Adventure and the Wildfowl & Wetlands Trust.

  4. Updated the Balai directive approved premises. Removed Tropical World, Leeds, from the list.

  5. Updated the approval date for Newquay Zoo and removed the Feral - Wild Animal Project from the list.

  6. Updated approval dates for Colchester Zoo, AB/38/13/001, Safari Zoo, Wildheart Animal Sanctuary, Birmingham Wildlife Conservation Park, Noah's Ark Zoo Farm, The Newt Bustard Project Unit.

  7. Updated approval dates for Marwell Wildlife (and removed withdrawal), National Sealife Centre, Ark Wildlife Park, Chessington World of Adventures, Hobbledown, Manor House Wildlife Park and Wild Acres.

  8. Updated approval date for Amazon World Zoo Park, New Forest Wildlife Park and Woburn Safari Park.Added Messingham Zoo Ltd to the list.

  9. Updated approval date for The Living Rainforest.

  10. We updated the approval date of Desert Falcons Ltd, Owl & Monkey Haven, Knowsley Safari Park and Tynemouth Aquarium. We withdraw Weensmuir Falcons approval.

  11. Updated approval date for All Things Wild.

  12. Updated approval dates for Wales Ape and Monkey Sanctuary.

  13. Updated approval dates for Hobbledown and Wild Acres.

  14. Updated the approval date for Wargrave Manor.

  15. Falcon Propagation have changed their premises name to Suhail Company Limited.

  16. Updated approval dates for Crocodiles of the World, Lake View Cottage, Ponderosa Zoo, and Racing Falcons. Added withdrawn date for Ahmed, A.

  17. Updated multiple approval dates in the list of bodies, institutes and centres approved for intra-community trade in animals.

  18. Changed name of listed body "Public Health England" to "UKHSA (United Kingdom Health Security Agency)".

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