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If you're advertising or marketing, including direct marketing, you must be accurate and honest and follow the advertising codes of practice
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Find out how to account for VAT schemes on business gifts, samples and promotional schemes.
How veterinary medicines can be advertised.
How to comply with the requirements on promoting medicines to the public and to prescribers and suppliers of medicines.
Submission dates and how the submissions using the EC decision reliance procedure work.
Explains control of advertisement regime.
Quality and labelling rules for growing, packing, distributing, importing and selling fresh fruit and vegetables.
Find out about the Direct Calculation VAT Retail Schemes 1 and 2, how they work and what records you must keep.
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.) Regulations 2024.
Find out how to apply VAT to charges for postage, delivery services and how to treat direct marketing services involving distribution of printed matter.
Steps to help grow your business - finding finance, mentors, increasing sales and developing products and services
Guidance for the pharmaceutical industry on Marketing Authorisations for veterinary medicines in the UK.
How to renew marketing authorisations for products granted through different routes and at different times.
Follow this guidance to request spend approval for advertising, marketing and communications activity costing £100,000 or more.
Find out when you can zero rate VAT for advertisements and goods used for the collection of donations.
Placing a veterinary medicine on the market, including non-medicinal products, medicinal words and phrases, how to obtain advice, report non-compliance.
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