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All essential shared data assets (ESDA) must be assessed for data quality issues, made findable and be available through APIs.
Find out what VAT should be charged on supplies of fuel and power if you're a supplier or a user.
Standardisation explained.
Lists of standards that businesses can use to show their products, services or processes comply with essential requirements of legislation.
A list of goods and services showing which rates of VAT apply and which items are exempt or outside the scope of VAT.
IST is a national sampling scheme based on the British Standard BS 6002-1:1993 (sampling procedures for inspection by variables).
Overview of how a home's energy performance is calculated using the Standard Assessment Procedure (SAP).
An overview of the work the IPO is undertaking in relation to Standard Essential Patents.
How to use a cost utility analysis to evaluate your digital health product.
Industry representatives, consumer organisations and other bodies provide advice and expertise on important issues regarding smart meters.
Explains the standard and practices you should use when publishing your data.
GBS product specifications: mandatory for central government departments and related organisations; encouraged for wider public sector.
Using open standards to improve how government shares data and provides services.
How to meet the general binding rules if your septic tank or small sewage discharge treatment plant releases (discharges) waste water to a surface water.
Design, build and operate APIs in a consistent way
Ensuring that meters register the correct quantity of gas and electricity consumed.
How we work with buyers and suppliers to improve the way technology is bought across government and the public sector.
Guidance to help organisations choose a monitoring approach for stack emissions to air that meets Environment Agency and MCERTS requirements (formerly part of M2).
Sets out the role and approach of the DSA to improve the adoption of common data standards across government over the next 3 years.
This guidance specifies the standards for the continuous monitoring and sampling of stack emissions.
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