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To offer credit to consumers you must be authorised by the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) and join the Financial Services Register
What you need to know about and do to comply with the law and keep consumers safe.
We advance prosperity by ensuring no viable UK export fails for lack of finance or insurance, doing that sustainably and at no net cost to the taxpayer.
Steps to help grow your business - finding finance, mentors, increasing sales and developing products and services
The rules about product labelling - including special rules for retailers and manufacturers in different business sectors (like food, jewellery and toys)
How to comply with the requirements on promoting medicines to the public and to prescribers and suppliers of medicines.
If you're advertising or marketing, including direct marketing, you must be accurate and honest and follow the advertising codes of practice
Things to consider when buying and using products.
How to ensure the products you make or import comply with the law and are safe for consumers to use.
Find out the information you must give to customers on food products and how to give it.
Find out which regulations apply to your products and where to go for further information on how to comply with them.
In response to competition concerns raised by the CMA, Amazon has offered commitments not to use Marketplace seller data and to treat all sellers’ offers equally when selecting which to feature in the ‘Buy Box’
Find out how to account for VAT schemes on business gifts, samples and promotional schemes.
Find out what a composite food product is, and the rules you need to follow to export or move these products from Great Britain to the EU and Northern Ireland.
Quality and labelling rules for growing, packing, distributing, importing and selling fresh fruit and vegetables.
In response to competition concerns raised by the CMA, Meta has offered commitments not to use competitors’ advertising data for its Facebook Marketplace online classified ad service. It will do this by implementing new technical systems and training for staff.
This guidance provides information on comparator products used in studies supporting abridged marketing authorisation applications
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