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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.
A guide to collecting data about your packaging. This is for UK organisations affected by extended producer responsibility (EPR) for packaging.
How to assess household and non-household packaging from 2024 onwards if you’re a UK organisation affected by extended producer responsibility (EPR) for packaging.
Get help to classify articles of leather and other items in chapter 42 of the tariff for import and export.
How UK organisations that supply or import packaging should comply with extended producer responsibility (EPR) for packaging.
Obligated packaging producers must register and meet their waste packaging recycling responsibilities.
Guidance for the veterinary pharmaceutical industry on the production of mock-ups for assessment.
Find out about applications to protect traditional terms related to wine products in Great Britain.
Packaging regulations: environmental requirements, recycling
Requirements for solid wood packaging used to import or export goods
If you use, produce or supply wood packaging material (WPM) to move goods to or from the EU or the rest of the world, you must make sure it meets international standards.
A guide to documenting how you’ve collected your packaging data, known as your ‘methodology’. Online marketplaces affected by extended producer responsibility (EPR) for packaging must submit a methodology. This is also recommended for all producers as part of their ways...
Guidance for the veterinary pharmaceutical industry on the production and submission of the Summary of Product Characteristics (SPCs) and product literature mock-ups.
Check when packaging is classified as a finished plastic packaging component, and what is meant by substantial modifications, to find out if you must register for the tax.
Weights and measures - find out the law on trading standards for packaging and selling products
Placing a veterinary medicine on the market, including non-medicinal products, medicinal words and phrases, how to obtain advice, report non-compliance.
How to get a handling or storage site approved, how to store animal by-products (ABPs) and derived products, and how to build the site.
Check the tariff classification for preparations put up for retail sale.
Get help to classify organic chemicals that contain certain permitted additives or can be dissolved in water, for import and export.
Food and drink labelling and packaging regulations - what you must show, warnings, health and organic labels and packaging standards.
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