Business regulation
Services
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Search for a trade mark
Look up a trade mark to see if something identical or similar to your brand is already registered.
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Check if a vehicle, part or accessory has been recalled
Check if a vehicle model, part or accessory has been recalled because of a fault in how it was made
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Contracts Finder
Use Contracts Finder to find out about current contract opportunities with the government and its agencies.
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Register a trade mark
Protect your brand by registering it as a trade mark - how to apply, fees, responding to objections to your trade mark, using the ® symbol
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Accepting returns and giving refunds: the law
When you do and do not have to offer a refund, repair or replacement, unconditional refunds for online purchases, and penalties for deceiving customers
Guidance and regulation
- Apply for an SIA licence
- Alcohol licensing
- Renew your SIA licence
- Using the UKCA marking
- Find out if you need an SIA licence
News and communications
- Medivet Group Limited / multiple independent veterinary businesses merger inquiries
- Technology Secretary holds roundtable with leading AI innovators
- Bestway Panacea Holdings Limited / Lexon UK Holdings and Asurex merger inquiry
- Response to government's AI White Paper
- CD&R / Morrisons
Research and statistics
- Monthly statistics: Patents, trade marks and designs: April 2023
- Upholstered garden furniture and baby travel products
- Material flows and material footprint accounts, UK: 2023
- Digital Markets, Competition and Consumers Bill – IA relating to new pro-competition regime relating to digital markets: RPC Opinion (Green-rated)
- Digital Markets, Competition and Consumers Bill: RPC Opinion (Red-rated)
Policy papers and consultations
- Consultation on proposed commitments in respect of Meta’s use of advertising data
- Planning for new energy infrastructure: revisions to National Policy Statements
- Design of the Energy Company Obligation (ECO): 2023-2026
- Smarter regulation non-financial reporting review: call for evidence
- Economic regulation policy
Transparency and freedom of information releases
- A statement of dissent in relation to a 2002 water industry merger
- Details and documents relating to a specific SIA prosecution case
- SIA contract with Datrix
- Details relating to the use of cloud services by the SIA
- Register of Board Members' Interests
Organisations
- Competition and Markets Authority
- Regulatory Policy Committee
- Security Industry Authority
- Environment Agency
- British Hallmarking Council
- Government Chemist
- Office for the Internal Market
- Sellafield Ltd
- Centre for Data Ethics and Innovation
- Marine Accident Investigation Branch
- Ofqual
- Subsidy Advice Unit
- Export Control Joint Unit
- Employment Agency Standards Inspectorate
- Military Aviation Authority
- Defence Science and Technology Laboratory
- Dounreay
- Low Pay Commission
- Magnox Ltd
- Natural England
- Nuclear Decommissioning Authority
- Youth Justice Board for England and Wales
- Biometrics and Forensics Ethics Group
- Nuclear Waste Services
- Office of the Immigration Services Commissioner
- Ofsted
- Social Security Advisory Committee
- Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs
- Council for Science and Technology
- Employment Tribunal
- HM Land Registry
- Office for Life Sciences
- Office of the Regulator of Community Interest Companies
- UK Hydrographic Office
- UK Space Agency