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How to comply with the requirements on promoting medicines to the public and to prescribers and suppliers of medicines.
How veterinary medicines can be advertised.
Find out how to apply VAT to charges for postage, delivery services and how to treat direct marketing services involving distribution of printed matter.
Placing a veterinary medicine on the market, including non-medicinal products, medicinal words and phrases, how to obtain advice, report non-compliance.
How to apply for marketing authorisation via this new procedure.
Steps to help grow your business - finding finance, mentors, increasing sales and developing products and services
Find out when you can zero rate VAT for advertisements and goods used for the collection of donations.
Quality and labelling rules for growing, packing, distributing, importing and selling fresh fruit and vegetables.
Apply for changes to your marketing authorisation, including minor variations type IA and IB, major variations type II and extensions.
Guidance on how to license electronic cigarettes and other inhaled nicotine-containing products (NCPs) as medicines in the UK.
This guide explains, to those wanting to display an outdoor advertisement, how the system of advertisement control works in England.
How the MHRA processes variations to Marketing Authorisations (MAs)
Decisions made by MHRA on adverts reported to have breached the legislation on advertising medicines.
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