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If you're advertising or marketing, including direct marketing, you must be accurate and honest and follow the advertising codes of practice
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Advertising to consumers The Consumer Protection from Unfair Trading…
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Legal requirements and good practice guidance for SQP retailers’ premises inspections.
Explains control of advertisement regime.
This is a study for the Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport on online advertising issues and self-regulatory initiatives.
A research paper from the ICO
How veterinary medicines can be advertised.
Legal requirements and good practice guidance for Veterinary Practice Premises Inspections.
This guide has been produced to assist government and public sector organisations with writing agency briefs when buying communications and marketing services.
This guide is to help you and your business understand how to ensure that content on your service is appropriate for children.
Guidance on how to license electronic cigarettes and other inhaled nicotine-containing products (NCPs) as medicines in the UK.
The Online Advertising Taskforce brings together representatives from government and the online advertising sector to work in collaboration to address illegal harms and the protection of children in relation to online advertising.
How to comply with the requirements on promoting medicines to the public and to prescribers and suppliers of medicines.
This page provides a guide for those interested in key upcoming digital regulatory activity being explored, developed or implemented by government. It covers a range of governance activities, from legislative change to the development of co-regulatory and self-regulatory frameworks.
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