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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.
You must identify and classify your waste before you send it for recycling…
The tables below list waste codes for common construction and demolition…
The tables below list waste codes for common packaging and domestic type…
These tables list common waste codes for batteries, lightbulbs and…
The tables below list waste codes for common wastes produced by vehicle…
The tables below list waste codes for common healthcare and related…
When applying to register a trade mark, you must use the classification system to specify the goods and/or services you'll be using it on.
For waste operators and exporters classifying some waste electrical and electronic equipment (WEEE) devices, waste components, and wastes from their treatment.
Find out how to contact HMRC to help you get a commodity code and what information you’ll need to send us.
Beef abattoirs must dress, categorise, classify, weigh and label carcases according to regulations, and communicate results to suppliers.
How to identify and classify waste that contains POPs.
Get help to classify textiles and which headings and codes to use.
Get help classifying computers, inkjet and toner cartridges and their components.
Get help to classify various types of vehicles such as mobility scooters, dumpers and utility vehicles, all-terrain vehicles and e-bikes for import and export.
These short papers explain how to record entities and their transactions in an accounting system.
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.
Get help to classify plastics for import and export.
Get help to classify ceramic articles for import and export.
Definition of rural areas using the Rural Urban Classification.
Get help to classify articles of leather and other items in chapter 42 of the tariff for import and export.
Class and permitted use of passenger ships, cargo ships, tankers, tugs, tenders, fishing boats, yachts, commercial vessels, and the required certificates.
Get help to classify footwear and parts of footwear for import and export.
Guidance for using automated grading techniques for beef carcase classification
Get help to classify organic chemicals that contain certain permitted additives or can be dissolved in water, for import and export.
Get help to classify herbal medicines, vitamins, food preparations, supplements and tonics for import and export.
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