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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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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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
- Using the UKCA marking
- Renew your SIA licence
- Alcohol licensing
- Trade mark forms and fees
News and communications
- York company director must pay £40,000 in proceeds of crime
- Funerals
- Hoyer Petrolog / DHL Supply Chain merger inquiry
- National Grid / PPL WPD Investments Merger Inquiry
- Sony Music Entertainment / AWAL and Kobalt Neighbouring Rights businesses merger inquiry
Research and statistics
- Rating (Coronavirus) and Directors Disqualification (Dissolved Companies) Bill: RPC Opinion
- Smart Data: accreditation and customer experience guidelines
- SIA licence holders
- SIA approved contractors
- SIA licence applications
Policy papers and consultations
- Algorithms, competition and consumer harm: call for information
- Retained Vertical Agreements Block Exemption Regulation consultation
- Draft Statement of Policy on the enforcement by the OIM of its information-gathering powers
- Draft guidance for fertility clinics on consumer law
- Smart Data Working Group: Spring 2021 report
Transparency and freedom of information releases
- Regulatory Policy Committee: minutes March 2021
- SIA Information Technology: strategy, plans and budgets
- Complaints made against the SIA: 2018 to 2021
- Regulatory decisions made about the conduct of professional drivers
- IPO customer service standards
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
- Export Control Joint Unit
- Military Aviation Authority
- Low Pay Commission
- UK Space Agency
- Youth Justice Board for England and Wales
- Natural England
- Office of the Immigration Services Commissioner
- Ofsted
- Social Security Advisory Committee
- Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs
- Council for Science and Technology
- 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