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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Get help and support for your business
Get business support and advice over the phone and online - setting up and running a business.
Guidance and regulation
- Apply for an SIA licence
- Register an overseas entity and tell us about its beneficial owners
- Using the UKCA marking
- Alcohol licensing
- Renew your SIA licence
News and communications
- Microsoft / Activision Blizzard merger inquiry
- Decision for Reays Coaches Ltd (PC1038719), Former Transport Managers (TMs): Christopher Reay, Brett Caine & Adam Skelton and TM: Brian K Richardson
- Decision for Lako Logistic Ltd (OF2039374)
- Suspected anti-competitive conduct in relation to the recycling of end-of-life vehicles
- Poultry feed deal abandoned during CMA’s Phase 2 investigation
Research and statistics
- IPO counterfeit goods research (Wave 3)
- Online copyright infringement tracker survey (12th Wave)
- SIA approved contractors
- SIA licence holders
- SIA licence applications
Policy papers and consultations
- Draft order: The Competition Act 1998 (Motor Vehicle Agreements Block Exemption) Order 2023 (MVBEO)
- Amendments to the Payment Practices and Performance Regulations 2017
- Potential review of British Sky Broadcasting Group merger remedy
- Potential remedy reviews for 2023
- Insight Paper on Web3
Transparency and freedom of information releases
- Merger inquiry outcome statistics
- Regulatory decisions made about the conduct of professional drivers
- Pubs Code Adjudicator meeting with Campaign for Pubs and the British Pub Confederation: meeting minutes
- SIA enforcement report
- IPO customer service standards
Organisations
- Competition and Markets Authority
- Regulatory Policy Committee
- Security Industry Authority
- Environment Agency
- British Hallmarking Council
- Government Chemist
- Office for the Internal Market
- Centre for Data Ethics and Innovation
- Marine Accident Investigation Branch
- Sellafield Ltd
- Ofqual
- Military Aviation Authority
- Defence Science and Technology Laboratory
- Export Control Joint Unit
- Low Pay Commission
- Natural England
- Subsidy Advice Unit
- Youth Justice Board for England and Wales
- Dounreay
- Magnox Ltd
- Nuclear Decommissioning Authority
- Office of the Immigration Services Commissioner
- Ofsted
- Social Security Advisory Committee
- Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs
- Biometrics and Forensics Ethics Group
- Council for Science and Technology
- Employment Agency Standards Inspectorate
- Employment Tribunal
- HM Land Registry
- Nuclear Waste Services
- Office for Life Sciences
- Office of the Regulator of Community Interest Companies
- UK Hydrographic Office
- UK Space Agency