We use some essential cookies to make this website work.
We’d like to set additional cookies to understand how you use GOV.UK, remember your settings and improve government services.
We also use cookies set by other sites to help us deliver content from their services.
You have accepted additional cookies. You can change your cookie settings at any time.
You have rejected additional cookies. You can change your cookie settings at any time.
Departments, agencies and public bodies
News stories, speeches, letters and notices
Detailed guidance, regulations and rules
Reports, analysis and official statistics
Consultations and strategy
Data, Freedom of Information releases and corporate reports
This page contains an overview of the Psychoactive Substances Act and supporting documents.
Explains planning controls relating to the storage of hazardous substances in England and how to handle development proposals around hazardous establishments.
Substances that are classed as persistent organic pollutants (POPs) and when you're allowed to use them.
Groups of ODS with their ozone-depleting potential.
The penalties if you are caught taking or dealing drugs - drug classification, fines and prison sentences
Customer declaration of specific uses of the scheduled category 1 or 2 substances (individual transactions).
Get help to classify pharmaceutical products used to treat or prevent diseases or ailments (in humans or animals), including comparators used in clinical trials and placebos.
Register as a manufacturer, importer or distributor of active substances.
Licence and registration application information for companies that deal in precursor chemicals.
Requesting comments on draft Stockholm Convention proposals for 3 chemical substances.
Register as a manufacturer, importer or distributor of active substances for use in veterinary medicines.
Get relief if you’re importing biological and chemical substances for research purposes from outside the EU and UK.
Application for a licence to trade in precursor chemicals category 2 substances
Customer declaration of specific uses of the scheduled category 1 or 2 substances (multiple transactions).
Guidance on a strategy for genotoxicity testing and mutagenic hazard assessment of impurities in chemical substances.
Requesting comments on draft risk profiles and risk management evaluations for 5 chemical substances proposed as POPs to the UN’s POP review committee.
Don’t include personal or financial information like your National Insurance number or credit card details.
To help us improve GOV.UK, we’d like to know more about your visit today. Please fill in this survey (opens in a new tab).