Guidance and regulation

This page contains the Border Target Operating Model, our final plans for a new approach to importing goods into Great Britain, that will be progressively introduced from the end of January 2024.

• From: Cabinet Office
• Updated: 13 February 2024

Notices made under the Customs (Import Duty) (EU Exit) Regulations 2018 which have the force of law.

• From: HM Revenue & Customs
• Updated: 17 April 2024

How to use this new procedure for medicines licensing applications.

• From: Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency
• Updated: 8 April 2024

This guidance and starter guide has been issued in order to comply with Regulation (EC) 1924/2006 on nutrition and health claims made on foods.…

• From: Department of Health and Social Care
• Updated: 10 November 2021

Information to help food businesses comply with nutrition legislation.

• From: Department of Health and Social Care
• Updated: 20 February 2024

Draft text of a statutory instrument, which makes amendments to retained EU law relating to interchange fee regulation, to be laid under the EU (Withdrawal) Act.

• From: HM Treasury
• Updated: 16 November 2018

Find out about safety and security requirements that apply to goods entering and exiting the UK.

• From: HM Revenue & Customs
• Updated: 1 March 2024

How the Northern Ireland Protocol affects supplementary protection certificates (SPCs), and what it means you need to do when applying for an SPC and afterwards.

• From: Intellectual Property Office
• Updated: 1 June 2021

How the ‘Written Confirmation’ process operates for active substances manufactured in Great Britain (England, Wales and Scotland).

• From: Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency
• Updated: 8 January 2024

Advice and guidance for healthcare practitioners on the health needs of migrant patients.

• From: Office for Health Improvement and Disparities
• Updated: 2 October 2023

Guidance to accompany the Burundi (Sanctions) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019

• From: Export Control Joint Unit and 2 others
• Updated: 23 October 2019

Guidance on the Democratic Republic of the Congo (Sanctions) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019

• From: Export Control Joint Unit and 2 others
• Updated: 9 February 2023

Find out how Northern Ireland and EU businesses can claim refunds of VAT incurred on goods in the EU and Northern Ireland using the EU VAT refund system.

• From: HM Revenue & Customs
• Updated: 18 November 2022

Guidance for businesses and organisations holding EU trade marks at the end of the transition period.

• From: Government Digital Service and 1 others
• Updated: 30 January 2020

International trade mark registrations protected in the EU under the Madrid Protocol will no longer enjoy protection in the UK after 1 January 2021.

• From: Government Digital Service and 1 others
• Updated: 27 September 2021

Guide to the Trade Bill and the trade-related tax measures in the Taxation (Cross-border Trade) Act 2018 that put in place the legal framework for an independent UK trade policy.

• From: Department for Business and Trade and 1 others
• Updated: 3 December 2018

Approved countries for batch testing and importation of medicines

• From: Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency
• Updated: 22 December 2021

Find out how and when to make a delayed supplementary declaration if you’re using simplified declarations to bring goods into Great Britain (England, Wales and Scotland).…

• From: HM Revenue & Customs
• Updated: 1 October 2022

Guidance for holders of Marketing Authorisations approved in Northern Ireland or the EU/EEA member states who want to bring a product to market in Great Britain.

• From: Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency
• Updated: 5 January 2024

Guidance for businesses holding registered Community designs and international trade marks and designs.

• From: Government Digital Service and 1 others
• Updated: 15 February 2022