Catalogue description Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries and Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food: Animal Health Divisions: Registered Files, Livestock and Livestock Semen Exports and Imports (LEI Series)

The LEI series cover a wide range of topics relating to the import and export of breeding livestock and semen, particularly controls to ensure the health of livestock and livestock strains in the UK, and to comply with other states' regulations concerning veterinary control of imported livestock. Some of the more important subjects covered are the importation of animals in exceptional circumstances; applications for licensing; the prohibition of certain unacceptable imports; the examination of other countries' animal health regulations and liaison with cattle societies.

The series includes some early files re-registered from the TLY file series: MAF 121

from 2007 Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

from 1983 Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food