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Get help to classify pharmaceutical products used to treat or prevent diseases or ailments (in humans or animals), including comparators used in clinical trials and placebos.
Get relief if you’re importing biological and chemical substances for research purposes from outside the EU and UK.
Controlled chemicals, drug precursor chemicals and hazardous chemicals.
Check the tariff classification for a defined daily dose of active substances.
Explains planning controls relating to the storage of hazardous substances in England and how to handle development proposals around hazardous establishments.
Get help to classify organic chemicals that contain certain permitted additives or can be dissolved in water, for import and export.
Licence and registration application information for companies that deal in precursor chemicals.
Guidance for manufacturers, importers and distributors.
How to apply for an exemption to use a restricted substance to manufacture electrical and electronic equipment.
Find out how to make an import or export declaration for human organs, blood, blood products, tissues and cells needed for emergency transplant or transfusion.
Non-nuclear radioactive substances regulation (RSR), when you need a permit, types of permits, how to apply, change (vary), transfer or surrender your permit.
You must register and declare ozone-depleting substances (ODS) for laboratory or analytical uses.
How to check that a laboratory is allowed to buy ozone-depleting substances (ODS).
Requesting comments on draft risk profiles and risk management evaluations for 5 chemical substances proposed as POPs to the UN’s POP review committee.
Customer declaration of specific uses of the scheduled category 1 or 2 substances (individual transactions).
Legal standards for labelling and composition of food products such as bottled water, milk and meat.
Requesting comments on draft Stockholm Convention proposals for 3 chemical substances.
Substances that are classed as persistent organic pollutants (POPs) and when you're allowed to use them.
Application for a licence to trade in precursor chemicals category 2 substances
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