Guidance and regulation

How to register an overseas entity and its beneficial owners or managing officers, so it can buy, sell or transfer property or land in the UK.

• From: Companies House
• Updated: 22 April 2024

Check if you need to apply for an environmental permit, formerly known as a flood defence consent, and get the forms you need.

• From: Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs and 1 others
• Updated: 3 April 2024

Guidance to help companies and limited liability partnerships (LLPs) understand how to meet new mandatory climate-related financial disclosure requirements.

• From: Department for Energy Security and Net Zero and 1 others
• Updated: 21 February 2022

Guide for government officials covering all aspects of the Better Regulation Framework.

• From: Department for Business and Trade
• Updated: 19 September 2023

A framework for how regulators should engage with those they regulate.

• From: Office for Product Safety and Standards
• Updated: 6 April 2014

Templates for government officials to use when completing an impact assessment (IA) or options assessment (OA) for government policy.

• From: Department for Business and Trade and 1 others
• Updated: 20 December 2023

Guide to amended late payment legislation which comes into force on 16 March 2013, implementing European Directive 2011/7/EU.

• From: Department for Business and Trade and 1 others
• Updated: 3 October 2014

Resources for business.

• From: Office for Product Safety and Standards
• Updated: 22 April 2024

How to request and use agent assurance codes if you are a UK-regulated agent carrying out verification checks on an overseas entity, and its beneficial owners and managing officers.

• From: Companies House
• Updated: 13 September 2023

Businesses can form a partnership with a local authority to provide advice other local regulators must respect.

• From: Office for Product Safety and Standards
• Updated: 2 May 2023

Rules for how cases are handled in the General Regulatory Chamber, which deals with appeals against government regulators.

• From: Tribunal Procedure Committee
• Updated: 6 February 2023

Help for policy officials to calculate figures for impact assessments (IAs) and options assessments (OAs).

• From: Department for Business and Trade
• Updated: 16 April 2024

Defines a social enterprise by the purpose of a business, with primarily social objectives.

• From: Department for Business and Trade and 1 others
• Updated: 21 November 2011

How companies will be affected by new reporting requirements in the (Directors’ Remuneration Policy and Directors’ Remuneration Report) Regulations 2019.

• From: Department for Business and Trade and 1 others
• Updated: 14 June 2019

Building relationships and improving compliance with environmental health, trading standards and fire safety legislation through Primary Authority.

• From: Office for Product Safety and Standards
• Updated: 27 February 2018

Defines unincorporated and incorporated businesses.

• From: Department for Business and Trade and 1 others
• Updated: 11 November 2011

Guide for government officials on how to produce an regulatory impact assessment (RIA).

• From: Department for Business and Trade and 1 others
• Updated: 7 June 2016

An approach to improving local regulation in the area of age restricted products and services.

• From: Office for Product Safety and Standards
• Updated: 22 January 2013

The Instrument will implement the relabelling of Retained EU Law (REUL) (and related terms) as “assimilated law” (and related terms) in primary legislation.

• From: Department for Business and Trade
• Updated: 5 January 2024

This Statutory Instrument revokes and replaces Regulation (EU) 1370/2007 which sets out the conditions under which 'competent authorities' may award Public Service Obligation (PSO) contracts for rail passenger…

• From: Department for Transport
• Updated: 11 January 2024