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Register to vote Register by 18 June to vote in the General Election on 4 July.
Guidance for manufacturers and importers.
Use data more effectively by improving your technology, infrastructure and processes.
Guidance for designated collection facilities (DCF) and charities on how to comply with WEEE and waste regulations.
Find out when it's possible to get zero-rated supplies on medical and research goods and services that have been funded by charities.
When you can treat waste plastic using heat without an environmental permit.
From 1 October 2024, more materials facilities will need to sample and report their waste. Sampling and reporting will be more detailed and more frequent under the amended regulations.
The S2 waste exemption allows you to store specific waste at a secure intermediate site, separate to where the waste was produced, before transportation to another site for recovery.
Check when packaging is classified as a finished plastic packaging component, and what is meant by substantial modifications, to find out if you must register for the tax.
Find out which supplies of children’s clothing or footwear are zero-rated for VAT.
Hand luggage restrictions at UK airports - carry-on luggage, checked-in baggage, restricted items and liquids, electronic devices carried from Turkey, Lebanon, Egypt and Saudi Arabia
Report that looks at the effect of disposable and reusable nappies on global warming and other environmental impacts.
The T1 waste exemption allows you to treat waste packaging so it can be reused in its original form or becomes clean waste suitable for recycling.
Make all new source code open and reusable, and publish it under appropriate licences. Or if this is not possible, provide a convincing explanation of why this cannot be done for specific subsets of the source code.
What you need to do before you send waste to a landfill site.
A project examining the options for reusing rubber vehicle tyres in port, coastal and river engineering.
The current zero-rate relief for VAT on Women’s Sanitary Products will be extended to include reusable period underwear
Draft statutory instrument, which will make amendments to retained EU law, and existing UK law, related to securities financing transactions, to be laid under the European Union (Withdrawal) Act 2018.
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