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If you're advertising or marketing, including direct marketing, you must be accurate and honest and follow the advertising codes of practice
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Steps to help grow your business - finding finance, mentors, increasing sales and developing products and services
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Find out the rules from 1 January 2018 if you promote or use arrangements that are meant to give someone a VAT or other indirect tax saving or a tax deferral.
Submission dates and how the submissions using the EC decision reliance procedure work.
Who in the pharmaceutical industry can be a Marketing Authorisation Holder, named distributor or local representative and how to make changes to these.
The Maritime and Coastguard Agency and several other organisations can provide useful advice for fishing vessel operators and seafarers on safety procedures.
This playbook explains how we use social media at GDS. In it, we share our best practice, what we've learned and what we're planning to do.
Explains how to make sure people can find your data and how to maintain it.
Guidance on Conditional Marketing Authorisations, exceptional circumstances Marketing Authorisations and national scientific advice
The seeds which must be certified before you can market them, how to get them certified and how to get a licence for your seed business.
The way you apply to licence biological products has changed
Growth Hubs are local public/private sector partnerships led by the Local Enterprise Partnerships (LEPs). They join up national and local business support so it is easy for businesses to find the help they need.
How to apply for national listing of agricultural and vegetable plant varieties in Great Britain and Northern Ireland.
Details of the process changes for established medicines, effective from 1 March 2024, which apply specifically to chemical products.
Apply for changes to your marketing authorisation, including minor variations type IA and IB, major variations type II and extensions.
How to market forest reproductive material (FRM) for forestry purposes, including regulations, registration, master certificates and licences.
Sources of advice and financial support for UK farmers exporting agricultural products to the EU and beyond
Guidance about the premium customer service for employers, explaining the benefits, costs, eligibility and how to apply.
How to comply with the requirements on promoting medicines to the public and to prescribers and suppliers of medicines.
Guidance on how to license electronic cigarettes and other inhaled nicotine-containing products (NCPs) as medicines in the UK.
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