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Register to vote Register by 18 June to vote in the General Election on 4 July.
Guidance on the fast-track process for Nationally Significant Infrastructure Projects.
An overview of the process by which bills become law.
An overview of the work the IPO is undertaking in relation to Standard Essential Patents.
Standardisation explained.
A patent registers your invention and lets you take legal action against anyone who makes, uses, sells or imports your invention without your permission.
The Intellectual Property Office offers different methods of accelerating the processing of your patent application.
Use inward processing to delay or reduce import duties or VAT on goods that you process or repair.
How to apply for the different simplified declarations for exports and what you need for authorisation to use them.
Guidance for anyone in the public sector that wants to apply for GovTech Catalyst funding to help solve a problem.
Steps SMEs can take when bidding for government contracts so they can compete with larger companies.
The UK government's design principles and examples of how they've been used.
Helping public health practitioners conducting evaluations – using process evaluations to explain how complex interventions work.
How to use the simplified declaration procedure when importing goods into the UK.
What the retirement of analogue phone lines, also known as the Public Switched Telephone Network (PSTN), means for you.
Introducing the new pre-application service for Nationally Significant Infrastructure Projects.
A list of 10 criteria that represent good practice in creating, applying and enforcing design codes.
Check when packaging is classified as a finished plastic packaging component, and what is meant by substantial modifications, to find out if you must register for the tax.
Information on how quickly we will process your application.
Find out what rights and obligations you can transfer, if you can transfer or receive them and what to do after authorisation.
Find out the rules to establish the country of origin of imported and exported goods and to help identify goods which qualify for lower or no Customs Duty.
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