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This licence allows you to temporarily mark dormice by fur-clipping and to handle dormice in:

• nests
• nest tubes
• nest boxes

You must release the dormice where they were captured as soon as you鈥檝e examined them.

You must apply for an individual licence or a level 1 licence for survey, research or conservation work not covered by this licence.

For development work affecting hazel dormice, you must apply for a mitigation licence.

Register with Natural England

Before you can use this licence, you must register with Natural England using the .

What you need to pay

It costs 拢104 to register for a new CL10b licence.

It costs 拢35 a year to continue your registration.

You must declare the intended use of the licence on your registration form. This will determine if you need to pay, such as to survey hazel dormice for development projects.

Natural England will refund unsuccessful applications.

When you do not need to pay

You do not need to pay if the licence is used for:

• voluntary purposes - any work you do is unpaid and you are registered with an organisation or charity as a volunteer
• conservation, science or research purposes, and research related to the protected species is carried out by a student or an employee of an academic institution or research body or an environmental non-governmental organisation

How to pay

You can pay using a bank card. Follow the 188体育 Pay link on the registration form or survey return form.

Read the terms and conditions for paying for a wildlife licence.

References

You need to complete a reference to support a survey or research licence form when you register for this licence if you:

• have not held a licence for the species or a similar species for the last 3 years
• have a licence but want to add new methods

Report action taken

You need to complete a by 31 January each year, even if you have taken no action or did not find target species.

You will be asked:

• whether you did any surveys
• what survey methods you used
• for the details of any dead or injured dormice found
• for the names of any accredited agents who completed surveys on your behalf
• if you followed best practice

You must also send:

• any actions taken under this licence, including surveys where dormouse were not found, to the
• repeat nest-box monitoring data to the
• one-off or incidental records to the

Continue your registration

You can use the to continue your registration. It costs 拢35 a year to continue your registration.