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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Apply to 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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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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Find your local Trading Standards office
Find a Trading Standards office to complain about illegal sales activity or to get business advice about trading legally
Guidance and regulation
- Apply for an SIA licence
- Using the UKCA marking
- Renew your SIA licence
- Alcohol licensing
- Trade mark forms and fees
News and communications
- Huws Gray Ltd / Grafton Plc
- Scottish Sea Farms Limited / Grieg Seafood Hjaltland UK Limited merger inquiry
- Birmingham company director prosecuted for security licence infringement
- IPO launches call for views on Standard Essential Patents (SEPs)
- Suspected anti-competitive behaviour in relation to the pricing of Rangers FC-branded replica football kit
Research and statistics
- SIA licence applications
- SIA licence holders
- SIA approved contractors
- Compendium of approaches to improving competition in digital markets
- Environment Agency 2020 data on regulated businesses in England
Policy papers and consultations
- Standard Essential Patents and Innovation: Call for views
- Acquisition of Sepura plc by Hytera Communications Corporation Limited: revised national security undertakings
- CMA Annual Plan 2022 to 2023 consultation
- Joining up on future technologies: Digital Regulation Cooperation Forum technology horizon scanning programme
- SIA skills and qualifications review
Transparency and freedom of information releases
- SIA enforcement report
- Regulatory decisions made about the conduct of professional drivers
- Centre for Data Ethics and Innovation board meeting agendas and minutes
- Malicious emails and ransomware attacks received by the SIA
- Geological disposal: scrutiny of RWM's work - annual reports
Organisations
- Competition and Markets Authority
- Regulatory Policy Committee
- Security Industry Authority
- Environment Agency
- British Hallmarking Council
- Government Chemist
- Innovate UK
- Centre for Data Ethics and Innovation
- Marine Accident Investigation Branch
- Ofqual
- Sellafield Ltd
- Office for the Internal Market
- Export Control Joint Unit
- Military Aviation Authority
- Low Pay Commission
- Youth Justice Board for England and Wales
- Natural England
- Office of the Immigration Services Commissioner
- Ofsted
- Social Security Advisory Committee
- UK Space Agency
- Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs
- Council for Science and Technology
- Defence Science and Technology Laboratory
- Dounreay
- Employment Agency Standards Inspectorate
- Employment Tribunal
- Highways England
- HM Land Registry
- Low Level Waste Repository Ltd
- Magnox Ltd
- Nuclear Decommissioning Authority
- Office for Life Sciences
- Office of the Regulator of Community Interest Companies
- Radioactive Waste Management
- UK Hydrographic Office