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Register to vote Register by 18 June to vote in the General Election on 4 July.
Information for retailers and distributors of tobacco products, enforcement agencies and the public on changes to tobacco packaging.
Guidance on how to license electronic cigarettes and other inhaled nicotine-containing products (NCPs) as medicines in the UK.
Sign in or create an account for your organisation to report packaging data. This means it can comply with extended producer responsibility (EPR) for packaging.
Get a preferential rate on goods you import to the UK from a Developing Countries Trading Scheme country.
How to import plants, fruit, vegetables, cut flowers, trees, seeds and used agricultural machinery from non-EU countries to Great Britain (England, Scotland and Wales).
Find out which live animals and animal foods or feeding stuffs are zero-rated for VAT.
Who needs to register for the tax and when, and what you must do before you register.
Check what UIDs you need for your tobacco products and the specifications they need to meet.
Find out how to decide what checks to make if you manufacture, import or buy plastic packaging from another business, and examples of checks you can carry out.
How to get a handling or storage site approved, how to store animal by-products (ABPs) and derived products, and how to build the site.
Guidance for those involved in the placing of packaged goods on the market.
Find out what repairs or processing you can do to your goods in a customs warehouse without authorisation, this is known as usual forms of handling.
How to classify and describe your business waste so you can know how to manage and dispose of it - what you need to do, List of Waste (LoW) codes, technical guidance.
How to move groups of agrifood products from Great Britain (England, Scotland and Wales) to Northern Ireland, which may include consignments of Northern Ireland Retail Movement Scheme (NIRMS) goods and consignments of non-NIRMS goods.
How to comply with the exemption from the Veterinary Medicines Regulations that allow certain animal medicines to be sold without a marketing authorisation.
Find out which supplies of children’s clothing or footwear are zero-rated for VAT.
How to import or move high risk food and feed of non-animal origin from the EU to Great Britain.
How to register for Plastic Packaging Tax.
How the MHRA makes decisions on when a product is a medical device (borderline products), and which risk class should apply to a medical device.
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