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If you're advertising or marketing, including direct marketing, you must be accurate and honest and follow the advertising codes of practice
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Steps to help grow your business - finding finance, mentors, increasing sales and developing products and services
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Find out what you should consider before using an umbrella company to make sure it complies with the tax rules.
Submission dates and how the submissions using the EC decision reliance procedure work.
Quality and labelling rules for growing, packing, distributing, importing and selling fresh fruit and vegetables.
Apply for changes to your marketing authorisation, including minor variations type IA and IB, major variations type II and extensions.
How the MHRA processes variations to Marketing Authorisations (MAs)
The seeds which must be certified before you can market them, how to get them certified and how to get a licence for your seed business.
Guidance on the decentralised and mutual recognition reliance procedure (MRDCRP) for marketing authorisation applications including information on how to apply.
Guidance for the pharmaceutical industry on how to apply to vary a veterinary Marketing Authorisation (MA) or Homeopathic Remedy.
How to get scientific advice about your licence application from MHRA, including: submitting a request, your meeting with MHRA, fees.
Use the rolling review route when you want to submit your eCTD dossier in separate parts for pre-assessment instead of making a full consolidated document submission.
Guidance for the pharmaceutical industry on Marketing Authorisations for veterinary medicines.
Guidance on applying to renew a marketing authorisation (MA) for a veterinary medicine.
Guidance for the pharmaceutical industry on who can be a Marketing Authorisation Holder, named distributor or local representative and how to make changes to these.
Guidance on how to license electronic cigarettes and other inhaled nicotine-containing products (NCPs) as medicines in the UK.
This guide is to help you and your business understand how to ensure that content on your service is appropriate for children.
Legal terms for veterinary medicines, marketing of non-medicinal products including medicinal words and phrases, how to complain.
The British Hallmarking Council's HALO award 2023 is open for submissions.
Guidance for holders of Marketing Authorisations approved in Northern Ireland or the EU/EEA member states who want to bring a product to market in Great Britain.
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