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Register to vote Register by 18 June to vote in the General Election on 4 July.
Guidance for businesses who have unregistered Community designs.
Find out how the government chooses open standards, and how you can suggest open standards, to improve services for users.
Building Bulletin 93 (BB93) explains minimum performance standards for the acoustics of school buildings.
The shape and the configuration of objects are automatically protected by design right in the UK and Europe.
Sets out the role and approach of the DSA to improve the adoption of common data standards across government over the next 3 years.
To protect your design outside of the UK, you usually need to apply in each country you want protection in.
Codes, best practice guides, standards and classifications that vessel owners, operators, designers and builders should refer to.
Use open standards when making software for software software interoperability, data formats and document formats.
How to use the common data standards for the criminal justice system (CJS) in England and Wales.
This Government Workplace Design Guide is one of a suite of guidance documents and standards setting out the aspirations for our workspaces.
The Surveillance Camera Commissioner has a statutory role to provide the surveillance camera industry with a current list of recommended standards.
Guidance relating to the protection, managing and enforcing of a registered design. Registered designs protect the appearance, shape or decoration of a product.
Use open standards to build technology that is easier to expand and upgrade, and make sure it communicates with other technology.
Using open standards to improve how government shares data and provides services.
View designs registered in the designs journal from the last 25 years
Register a design - what designs are protected, search the registers, prepare your illustrations, how to apply, disclaimers and limitations.
Changes for businesses and holders of international EU protected designs.
The government technology and service design standards that GovTech Catalyst funded challenges must meet.
Information about primary and secondary school design.
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