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Check if you need a visa or permit to work in France and how to get one if you do.
Find out what you need to do to renew your SIA licence.
Benefit from your trade mark by licensing, mortgaging, selling, transferring ownership, merging and exploit by marketing.
UK visa sponsorship information for employers - requirements, certificates and licences for Workers and Temporary Workers.
Guidance for UK businesses on rules for selling services to Liechtenstein.
How to run and manage a Driver Certificate of Professional Competence (CPC) periodic training course.
Your chances of obtaining a useful patent are significantly greater if you use an attorney. A patent specification is a legal document and requires specialist skills to draft properly.
Apply for your site to be approved to host heavy goods vehicle (HGV) or Driver Certificate of Professional Competence (CPC) part 4 tests.
Any person or organisation involved in a transaction with those subject to financial sanctions will first need a licence from OFSI.
Use a global project licence to simplify the export of military goods and technology classed as collaborative defence projects.
Apply for permission to use Driver and Vehicle Standards Agency (DVSA) logos if you're a driving or motorcycle instructor or provide other driver training.
A new pathway supporting innovative approaches to the safe, timely and efficient development of medicines to improve patient access.
A patent registers your invention and lets you take legal action against anyone who makes, uses, sells or imports your invention without your permission.
Guide to licensing procedure and other restrictions for export of controlled dual-use items, software and technology, goods for torture and radioactive sources.
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How to plan for and manage the risks associated with oak processionary moth (OPM) on oak trees on your land.
Comply with good manufacturing practice (GMP) and good distribution practice (GDP), and prepare for an inspection.
Tips at work do not count towards the National Minimum Wage - tips and tax, what your employer has to do, advice and help, cash in hand payments
What to do if you think someone's used your intellectual property without permission - types of intellectual property abuse, help resolving disputes and further legal action you can take.
Guidance on how to license electronic cigarettes and other inhaled nicotine-containing products (NCPs) as medicines in the UK.
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