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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…
Apply for changes to your marketing authorisation, including minor variations type IA and IB, major variations type II and extensions.
Who in the pharmaceutical industry can be a Marketing Authorisation Holder, named distributor or local representative and how to make changes to these.
Guidance for the pharmaceutical industry on how to apply to vary a veterinary Marketing Authorisation (MA) or Homeopathic Remedy.
Find out how to apply VAT to charges for postage, delivery services and how to treat direct marketing services involving distribution of printed matter.
How the MHRA processes variations to Marketing Authorisations (MAs)
Guidance for the pharmaceutical industry on how to apply for an authorisation to place a veterinary medicine on the UK market or part of, or to expire one.
Marketing authorisations granted in 2024
How to submit an application, data package and responses for proposed or existing marketing authorisations.
Project Orbis is a programme to review and approve promising cancer drugs helping patients access treatments faster.
How to get plant breeders' rights and what protection it gives your plant varieties.
Service for Marketing Authorisation Holders, Manufacturers and Wholesalers.
How to comply with the requirements on promoting medicines to the public and to prescribers and suppliers of medicines.
Explains control of advertisement regime.
Employers can use the 'Find a job’ service to advertise jobs online
Follow this guidance to request spend approval for advertising, marketing and communications activity costing £100,000 or more.
Find out which country’s VAT rules to use when supplying services abroad.
Find out about the VAT liability of insurance transactions and insurance related services.
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