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This guidance sets out further information about what you, the leaseholder, do and do not have to pay for remediating a building safety defect via your service charge.
Whistleblowing - what it is, who to tell, what to expect and how to complain if you're treated unfairly
Guidance for businesses holding registered Community designs and international trade marks and designs.
How a competent authority must decide if a plan or project proposal that affects a European site can go ahead.
See the list of applications to protect the geographical name of a food, drink or agricultural product in Great Britain.
What intellectual property is, how you can protect it, and which of copyright, patents, design right and trade marks applies to your work
The Marine Management Organisation (MMO) is responsible for managing fishing and marine non-licensable activities in England’s marine protected areas (MPAs). MMO also manages marine licensable activities through our marine licensing system.
How to assess a planning application when there are water voles on or near a proposed development site.
The different types of British nationality explained - British citizen, British overseas territories citizen, British overseas citizen, British subject, British national (overseas), British protected person
To protect your design outside of the UK, you usually need to apply in each country you want protection in.
Find out about the UK geographical indication (GI) schemes that protect the geographical names of food, drink and agricultural products, and the UK GI schemes registers.
How to assess a planning application when there are otters on or near a proposed development site.
Rules on using a geographical indication (GI) scheme logo to mark a registered protected food or drink name.
How to assess a planning application when there are reptiles on or near a proposed development site.
How to apply to protect a spirit drink name under the UK GI schemes.
How to assess a planning application when there are invertebrates on or near a proposed development site.
Who gets copyright, types of work it covers, permitted use of copyright material, how to license and sell copyright and help resolving disputes
Home Responsibilities Protection ran between 1978 and 2010 to help protect your State Pension - National Insurance credits, what you'll get, eligibility and applying.
This guidance provides leaseholders with a plain English explanation of the implications of the leaseholder protections in the Building Safety Act 2022.
Responding to a data protection request - what you need to provide and what happens if you do not provide the information.
Don’t include personal or financial information like your National Insurance number or credit card details.
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