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Guidance and regulation

• Alcohol licensing

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  24 May 2018

  Home Office

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  13 September 2018

  Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport

• Trade mark forms and fees

  Guidance

  25 September 2017

  Intellectual Property Office

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  • Guidance
  • 12 March 2015
  • Intellectual Property Office
• Product safety for manufacturers
  • Detailed guide
  • 14 May 2018
  • Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy and Office for Product Safety and Standards

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News and communications

PCA MRO Questionnaire

20 September 2018

Pubs Code Adjudicator

News story

1. Moneysupermarket.com Financial Group Limited / Decision Technologies Limited
   • 20 September 2018
   • Competition and Markets Authority
   • Cma case
2. Work kicks-off to examine digital competition in UK
   • 20 September 2018
   • HM Treasury
   • News story
3. Nicholls’ (Fuel Oils) Limited / DCC Energy Limited in Northern Ireland
   • 19 September 2018
   • Competition and Markets Authority
   • Cma case
4. Hydraulic Fracturing Consent (HFC) application by Cuadrilla Bowland Ltd: Preston New Road site (PNR-1z) - decision notice
   • 19 September 2018
   • Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy
   • Decision

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Research and statistics

• Vulnerable consumers
  • 12 September 2018
  • Competition and Markets Authority
  • Research
• Bank Referral Scheme: August 2018
  • 31 August 2018
  • HM Treasury
  • Official statistics
• London basin chalk aquifer annual status report
  • 22 August 2018
  • Environment Agency
  • Research
• Protecting biota from cooling water intakes at nuclear power stations
  • 6 August 2018
  • Environment Agency
  • Research
• Online copyright infringement tracker survey (8th Wave)
  • 3 August 2018
  • Intellectual Property Office
  • Research

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Policy and engagement

• UK implementation of the Marrakesh Treaty 10 September 2018

  Intellectual Property Office

  Consultation outcome

  Date closed 19 June 2018

• Payment Protection Insurance Market Investigation Order 2011 6 September 2018

  Competition and Markets Authority

  Consultation outcome

  Date closed 23 August 2018

• Hallmarking by UK Assay Offices overseas 31 August 2018

  British Hallmarking Council

  Consultation outcome

  Date closed 22 September 2017

• Intellectual Property: Tangle Teezer
  • 31 August 2018
  • Intellectual Property Office
  • Case study
• Intellectual Property: These Please
  • 31 August 2018
  • Intellectual Property Office
  • Case study

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Transparency

• CMA board meeting minutes: 18 July 2018
  • 17 September 2018
  • Competition and Markets Authority
  • Transparency
• Business Impact Target 2017 to 2018: Ofqual
  • 14 September 2018
  • Ofqual
  • Corporate report
• Merger inquiry outcome statistics
  • 14 September 2018
  • Competition and Markets Authority
  • Transparency
• Packaging producer responsibility monitoring plan 2018
  • 11 September 2018
  • Environment Agency
  • Corporate report
• Establishments regulated by the Pubs Code
  • 5 September 2018
  • Pubs Code Adjudicator
  • Foi release

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Organisations

1. Intellectual Property Office
2. Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy
3. Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport
4. Department for Environment Food & Rural Affairs
5. Home Office

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2. Department for Work & Pensions
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4. Groceries Code Adjudicator
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6. Ministry of Housing, Communities & Local Government
7. HM Treasury
8. Foreign & Commonwealth Office
9. HM Courts & Tribunals Service
10. Cabinet Office
11. Department for Transport
12. HM Revenue & Customs
13. Department of Health & Social Care
14. Pubs Code Adjudicator
15. Driver & Vehicle Standards Agency
16. Office of the Secretary of State for Scotland
17. UK Export Finance
18. Civil Nuclear Constabulary
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20. Ministry of Defence
21. Crown Commercial Service
22. Government Actuary's Department
23. Department for Education
24. Department for International Trade
25. The Insolvency Service
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27. Government Equalities Office
28. Northern Ireland Office
29. Public Health England
30. Company Names Tribunal
31. Department for International Development
32. Government Office for Science
33. Her Majesty’s Prison & Probation Service
34. HM Passport Office
35. Marine Management Organisation
36. Medicines & Healthcare products Regulatory Agency
37. Office of the Advocate General for Scotland
38. Attorney General's Office
39. Bona Vacantia
40. Building Regulations Advisory Committee
41. Central Arbitration Committee
42. CFRA
43. Civil Procedure Rule Committee
44. Civil Service Fast Track Apprenticeship
45. Companies House
46. Department for Exiting the European Union
47. Immigration Enforcement
48. Maritime & Coastguard Agency
49. Office for Civil Society
50. Office of the Public Guardian
51. Stabilisation Unit
52. Coal Authority
53. Tribunal Procedure Committee
54. UK Atomic Energy Authority

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7. Military Aviation Authority
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9. Innovate UK
10. Ofqual
11. Youth Justice Board for England and Wales
12. Office of the Immigration Services Commissioner
13. Social Security Advisory Committee
14. UK Space Agency
15. Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs
16. Highways England
17. HM Land Registry
18. Office of the Regulator of Community Interest Companies
19. Ofsted
20. Single Source Regulations Office
21. UK Hydrographic Office