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Find out about current competent person schemes to self-certify certain types of building work if you work in building as an installer.
Join a competent person scheme to self-certify certain types of building work instead of getting building regulations approval from a council or private inspector - how to join, current schemes
Read the Council Directive 2003/48/EC of 3 June 2003 on taxation of savings income in the form of interest payments.
Explains planning controls relating to the storage of hazardous substances in England and how to handle development proposals around hazardous establishments.
How a competent authority must decide if a plan or project proposal that affects a European site can go ahead.
Competent authorities must take action to help protect, conserve and restore the protected habitats and species of European sites.
Building regulations: competent person self-certification schemes - conditions of authorisation.
Find out the legal, financial and professional requirements for operators and managers, including extra duties for waste activity operators.
How to object to an application to register for UK geographical indication (GI) protection, change or cancel a product specification and how to appeal against a decision.
Pharmacovigilance system requirements
When you need building regs approval, how to apply, using a competent person scheme, and determinations and appeals
How to ensure the products you make or import comply with the law and are safe for consumers to use.
Find a qualified installer to replace your boiler with a heat pump.
How to conform with the legal requirements for placing medical devices on the market.
This guidance is for UK Conformity Assessment Bodies (CABs) who are intending to subcontract tasks such as testing, certification or inspection.
Understand the roles of accountable persons and the principal accountable person for a high-rise residential building, and what they must do.
Explainer for the pharmaceutical industry on the implementation of the Veterinary Medicines Regulation relating to Pharmacovigilance.
A wholesale dealer in Great Britain may import Qualified Person certified medicines from the European Economic Area if certain checks are made by the ‘Responsible Person (import)’
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