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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.
Get help to classify organic chemicals that contain certain permitted additives or can be dissolved in water, for import and export.
Get help to classify herbal medicines, vitamins, food preparations, supplements and tonics for import and export.
Find out what compound products are, and how to import or move them from the EU to Great Britain.
Covering thalidomide, lenalidomide, and pomalidomide: temporary guidance for pregnancy prevention arrangements for patients taking them during COVID-19
You can claim relief to pay no Customs Duty and VAT if you're importing therapeutic substances of human origin, blood-grouping or tissue-typing reagents, or related packaging, solvents and accessories.
Find out the rules to establish the country of origin of imported and exported goods and to help identify goods which qualify for lower or no Customs Duty.
Substances that are classed as persistent organic pollutants (POPs) and when you're allowed to use them.
Get relief if you’re importing biological and chemical substances for research purposes from outside the EU and UK.
Directory of current ICH Guidelines which have been implemented by the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency.
Licence and registration application information for companies that deal in precursor chemicals.
Claim relief from Customs Duty and VAT when importing organs and other substances of human origin into the UK for emergency transplant or transfusion.
The Committee on Mutagenicity of Chemicals in Food, Consumer Products and the Environment (COM) assesses and advises on mutagenic risks to humans. COM is an advisory non-departmental public body, sponsored by the Department of Health and Social Care and the...
Use these general provisions to help you determine the origin of your products.
How to apply for a clinical trial including eligibility, phases, model IMPDs, costs and how to make changes to your application.
Groups of ODS with their ozone-depleting potential.
Supplier declarations are where your UK supplier provides you with information needed to prove the origin of your goods for preferential rates of duty between the UK and other countries.
Get a preferential rate on goods you import to the UK from a Developing Countries Trading Scheme country.
A form of IP that extends the protection of patented active ingredients present in pharmaceutical or plant protection products.
This guidance provides information on comparator products used in studies supporting abridged marketing authorisation applications
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