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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
All marketing and advertising must be: an accurate description of the…
Advertising to consumers The Consumer Protection from Unfair Trading…
There are 2 advertising codes of practice that describe how businesses…
You must describe your product accurately. This means if you make a claim…
You must check if customers want to be contacted by fax, phone, post or…
Explains control of advertisement regime.
Submission dates and how the submissions using the EC decision reliance procedure work.
Apply for changes to your marketing authorisation, including minor variations type IA and IB, major variations type II and extensions.
The Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) has ruled against misleading advertising of contractor loan schemes by scheme promoter, Williams Gordon.
From 13 May 2024 we are introducing a change to the procedure for new Marketing Authorisation (MA) applications, where a joint assessment of labels is requested.
Advertising Standards Authority rules against misleading income trust advertising that uses HMRC's logo.
Legal terms for veterinary medicines, marketing of non-medicinal products including medicinal words and phrases, how to complain.
Culture Secretary Lucy Frazer's speech on the strength of the UK's advertising industry at the Ad Association's LEAD conference.
How to comply with the requirements on promoting medicines to the public and to prescribers and suppliers of medicines.
Find out how to apply VAT to charges for postage, delivery services and how to treat direct marketing services involving distribution of printed matter.
Decisions made by MHRA on adverts reported to have breached the legislation on advertising medicines.
Guidance for the pharmaceutical industry on who can be a Marketing Authorisation Holder, named distributor or local representative and how to make changes to these.
Licensing bodies and collective management organisations can agree licences with users on behalf of owners and collect any royalties the owners are owed.
Quality and labelling rules for growing, packing, distributing, importing and selling fresh fruit and vegetables.
How veterinary medicines can be advertised.
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