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
- Register an overseas entity and tell us about its beneficial owners
- Using the UKCA marking
- Alcohol licensing
- Renew your SIA licence
News and communications
- Viasat / Inmarsat merger inquiry
- Bouygues S.A. / Equans S.A.S. merger inquiry
- Decision for Stagecoach Devon Ltd, PH1020951
- Judgments in Arbitration Appeals and Publication of Arbitration Awards
- Price comparison website: use of most favoured nation clauses
Research and statistics
- The Electricity and Gas (Energy Company Obligation) (Amendment) Order 2022: RPC Opinion
- Mobile ecosystems market study final report
- CMA consumer research into purchasing behaviour in the UK smartphone market
- SIA licence applications
- SIA approved contractors
Policy papers and consultations
- Standard Essential Patents and Innovation: Call for views
- Land rights and consents for electricity network infrastructure: call for evidence
- Competition in onshore electricity networks
- Non-hazardous and inert waste: appropriate measures for permitted facilities
- Hydro Benefit Replacement Scheme and Common Tariff Obligation: statutory review 2022
Transparency and freedom of information releases
- Competition Act 1998 directions and commitments register
- Mergers orders and undertakings register
- SIA business plan: 2022 to 2023
- Active SIA prosecution cases
- SIA enforcement report
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
- Low Pay Commission
- Natural England
- Youth Justice Board for England and Wales
- Defence Science and Technology Laboratory
- 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