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These short papers explain how to record entities and their transactions in an accounting system.
When applying to register a trade mark, you must use the classification system to specify the goods and/or services you'll be using it on.
Definition of rural areas using the Rural Urban Classification.
Guidance for using automated grading techniques for beef carcase classification
Section last updated: July 2023.
Section last updated: November 2020.
Beef abattoirs must dress, categorise, classify, weigh and label carcases according to regulations, and communicate results to suppliers.
Get help to classify pharmaceutical products used to treat or prevent diseases or ailments (in humans or animals), including comparators used in clinical trials and placebos.
Class and permitted use of passenger ships, cargo ships, tankers, tugs, tenders, fishing boats, yachts, commercial vessels, and the required certificates.
Using the international patent, UK patent and cooperative patent classification schemes
How to classify and describe your business waste so you can know how to manage and dispose of it - what you need to do, List of Waste (LoW) codes, technical guidance.
Get help classifying computers, inkjet and toner cartridges and their components.
Find out how to contact HMRC to help you get a commodity code and what information you’ll need to send us.
The Beef Carcase Classification (BCC) scheme is the compulsory classification of beef carcases to an agreed standard so that a fair meat price can be set.
This report summarises the issues relating to the current classification system of public bodies and recommends measures to improve it.
Pharmacy, prescription-only (POM), and general sale list (GSL) medicines: apply to move your medicine to a different classification.
How the government classifies information assets to ensure they are appropriately protected.
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