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How to manage a temporary storage facility, how to handle goods, what records to keep, how to increase the size of, or move goods between facilities.
Find out how to link your temporary storage facility to Customs Handling of Import and Export Freight (CHIEF) or the Customs Declaration Service using a Community Systems Provider.
The S2 waste exemption allows you to store specific waste at a secure intermediate site, separate to where the waste was produced, before transportation to another site for recovery.
Putting your goods into temporary storage means you can delay the full customs declaration and payment of import VAT and duty for up to 90 days.
Check how you can operate an authorised consignee temporary storage facility so you can store goods for up to 6 days, including how to get authorised.
An innovation competition aiming to accelerate commercialisation of innovative longer duration energy storage projects.
This exemption allows you to temporarily store waste you have produced when working away from your normal business premises.
Check if you can operate a facility and meet the conditions to store imported goods temporarily and find out how to apply.
Find out what records you must keep about trusts for tax purposes, who can access your information, and what to do if your records are lost or destroyed.
This exemption allows you to temporarily store waste at a collection point before recovering or disposing of the waste elsewhere.
As a vet or pharmacist, you must follow legal requirements when working with controlled drugs in veterinary medicine.
This exemption allows you to temporarily store any waste at the place of production before it’s collected.
The S1 waste exemption lets you store certain waste in secure containers at a site separate to where it was produced, before transportation to another site for recovery.
Employment agencies and businesses must keep proper records and can be inspected by the Employment Agency Standards (EAS) Inspectorate; the records you must keep, how long to store them and what happens if you're inspected
Financial support for traders and farmers from intervention and Private Storage Aid schemes
How to develop a management system and keep it up to date so that you can carry out activities under an environmental permit.
Find out what you need to do and how to apply to operate a customs warehouse when importing to the UK.
You're required to keep records for all traded goods you declare to HMRC for four years, for duty and tax purposes and for government statistics.
Storage guidance for standardised waste packages containing Low Heat Generating Waste (LHGW)
A guide to farming risks, potential problems with public safety and how to avoid accidents
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