Business regulation

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Services

1. Search for a trade mark

   Look up a trade mark to see if something identical or similar to your brand is already registered

2. 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

3. Contracts Finder

   Use Contracts Finder to find out about current contract opportunities with the government and its agencies

4. 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

5. 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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Guidance and regulation

1. Alcohol licensing
   • Detailed guide
   • 24 May 2018
   • Home Office
2. Trade mark forms and fees
   • Guidance
   • 14 January 2019
   • Intellectual Property Office
3. Non-disclosure agreements
   • Guidance
   • 12 March 2015
   • Intellectual Property Office
4. How to classify trade marks
   • Detailed guide
   • 26 June 2017
   • Intellectual Property Office
5. Flood risk activities: environmental permits
   • Detailed guide
   • 17 June 2019
   • Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs and Environment Agency

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News and communications

16 July 2019 — Cma case

Nicholls’ (Fuel Oils) Limited / DCC Energy Limited in Northern Ireland

Competition and Markets Authority

1. Connect Bidco / Inmarsat merger inquiry
   • 16 July 2019
   • Competition and Markets Authority
   • Cma case
2. UK government to cut electricity bills for consumers in the north of Scotland
   • 12 July 2019
   • Office of the Secretary of State for Scotland and Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy
   • Press release
3. 2019 GCA Conference - Speaker presentations
   • 11 July 2019
   • Groceries Code Adjudicator
   • News story
4. Designs hearing decision O/378/19
   • 11 July 2019
   • Intellectual Property Office
   • Decision

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Research and statistics

1. Office for Product Safety and Standards – Research at Office for Product Safety and Standards
   • 12 July 2019
   • Office for Product Safety and Standards
   • Research
2. Extending the SM&CR to insurers: RPC Opinion
   • 10 July 2019
   • Regulatory Policy Committee
   • Research
3. Rules applicable to firms within scope of the IDD: RPC Opinion
   • 10 July 2019
   • Regulatory Policy Committee
   • Research
4. Product intervention for retail binary options: RPC Opinion
   • 10 July 2019
   • Regulatory Policy Committee
   • Research
5. Rent-to-own price cap (PS19/6): RPC Opinion
   • 10 July 2019
   • Regulatory Policy Committee
   • Research

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Policy papers and consultations

1. Hydro Benefit Replacement Scheme and Common Tariff Obligation
   • 12 July 2019
   • Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy
   • Open consultation
   • Closing date 06 September 2019
2. Energy Company Obligation (ECO3): improving consumer protection
   • 9 July 2019
   • Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy
   • Open consultation
   • Closing date 06 August 2019
3. Supplementary protection certificate waiver: no deal legislation
   • 5 July 2019
   • Intellectual Property Office
   • Open consultation
   • Closing date 09 August 2019
4. Assessing and scoring environmental permit compliance
   • 4 July 2019
   • Environment Agency
   • Policy paper
5. Competition and Markets Authority's digital markets strategy
   • 3 July 2019
   • Competition and Markets Authority
   • Policy paper

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Transparency and freedom of information releases

1. Regulatory Policy Committee: minutes May 2019
   • 10 July 2019
   • Regulatory Policy Committee
   • Corporate report
2. Intellectual Property Office: structure chart
   • 10 July 2019
   • Intellectual Property Office
   • Transparency
3. Merger inquiry outcome statistics
   • 4 July 2019
   • Competition and Markets Authority
   • Transparency
4. IPO customer service standards
   • 4 July 2019
   • Intellectual Property Office
   • Transparency
5. British Hallmarking Council: business impact target
   • 4 July 2019
   • British Hallmarking Council
   • Corporate report

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Organisations

1. Intellectual Property Office
2. Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy
3. Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport
4. Department for Environment Food & Rural Affairs
5. Office for Product Safety & Standards

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1. Home Office
2. Department for Work & Pensions
3. Pubs Code Adjudicator
4. Groceries Code Adjudicator
5. Ministry of Justice
6. HM Treasury
7. Prime Minister's Office, 10 Downing Street
8. Ministry of Housing, Communities & Local Government
9. Foreign & Commonwealth Office
10. Department for Transport
11. Cabinet Office
12. HM Courts & Tribunals Service
13. Department of Health & Social Care
14. HM Revenue & Customs
15. Driver & Vehicle Standards Agency
16. Traffic Commissioners for Great Britain
17. Department for International Trade
18. Public Health England
19. Office of the Secretary of State for Scotland
20. UK Export Finance
21. Civil Nuclear Constabulary
22. Civil Nuclear Police Authority
23. Company Names Tribunal
24. Crown Commercial Service
25. Department for Education
26. Government Actuary's Department
27. Government Equalities Office
28. Ministry of Defence
29. Companies House
30. Copyright Tribunal
31. The Insolvency Service
32. Office of the Secretary of State for Wales Swyddfa Ysgrifennydd Gwladol Cymru
33. Department for Exiting the European Union
34. Marine Management Organisation
35. Medicines & Healthcare products Regulatory Agency
36. Northern Ireland Office
37. Rural Payments Agency
38. Department for International Development
39. Government Office for Science
40. Her Majesty’s Prison & Probation Service
41. HM Passport Office
42. Maritime & Coastguard Agency
43. Office of the Advocate General for Scotland
44. Small Business Commissioner
45. Animal & Plant Health Agency
46. Attorney General's Office
47. Bona Vacantia
48. Building Regulations Advisory Committee
49. Central Arbitration Committee
50. CFRA
51. Civil Procedure Rule Committee
52. Civil Service Fast Track Apprenticeship
53. Driver & Vehicle Licensing Agency
54. Immigration Enforcement
55. Office for Civil Society
56. Office of the Public Guardian
57. Race Disparity Unit
58. Stabilisation Unit
59. Coal Authority
60. Tribunal Procedure Committee
61. UK Atomic Energy Authority
62. Veterinary Medicines Directorate

1. Competition and Markets Authority
2. Regulatory Policy Committee
3. Environment Agency
4. British Hallmarking Council
5. Government Chemist
6. Marine Accident Investigation Branch
7. Innovate UK
8. Sellafield Ltd
9. Centre for Data Ethics and Innovation
10. Export Control Joint Unit
11. Military Aviation Authority
12. Ofqual
13. Low Pay Commission
14. UK Space Agency
15. Youth Justice Board for England and Wales
16. Office of the Immigration Services Commissioner
17. Ofsted
18. Social Security Advisory Committee
19. Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs
20. Council for Science and Technology
21. Employment Agency Standards Inspectorate
22. Highways England
23. HM Land Registry
24. Natural England
25. Office of the Regulator of Community Interest Companies
26. Single Source Regulations Office
27. UK Hydrographic Office

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1. Alcohol licensing
2. Competition
3. Consumer rights and issues
4. Energy industry and infrastructure licensing and regulation
5. Intellectual property
6. Product safety
7. Regulation reform
8. Sale of goods and services and data protection
9. State aid