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Use these general provisions to help you determine the origin of your products.
Substances that are classed as persistent organic pollutants (POPs) and when you're allowed to use them.
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.
Guidance for manufacturers, importers and distributors.
How a marketing authorisation holder should report a defect with a veterinary medicine.
Ensuring you get what you pay for.
What you need to know about and do to comply with the law and keep consumers safe.
How the MHRA makes decisions on when a product is a medical device (borderline products), and which risk class should apply to a medical device.
How product specific rules are used to identify the country of origin when importing or exporting between the UK and EU.
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.
How UK organisations that supply or import packaging should comply with extended producer responsibility (EPR) for packaging.
Outlines the provisions of the Food (Promotion and Placement) (England) Regulations 2021, and provides assistance in understanding and applying them.
Bringing in goods for personal use when you travel to the UK from abroad - types of tax and duty, duty free, EU and non-EU arrivals, banned and restricted goods.
Find out if the goods you're declaring to inward or outward processing are classed as sensitive goods.
Check what you need to do to sell cosmetic products in Great Britain.
An independent research report.
Information on how market surveillance authorities should notify products that pose a risk to the health and safety of consumers and / or are noncompliant.
Guidance for the veterinary pharmaceutical industry on the production of mock-ups for assessment.
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