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When applying to register a trade mark, you must use the classification system to specify the goods and/or services you'll be using it on.
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.
Detail on the UK’s position on the exchange and protection of classified information
Use this form to transfer incorrectly classified goods or services before the trade mark is registered.
Guidance and supporting forms for international organisations and partners to obtain security clearance for UK nationals working with international classified information.
Pharmacy, prescription-only (POM), and general sale list (GSL) medicines: apply to move your medicine to a different classification.
Class and permitted use of passenger ships, cargo ships, tankers, tugs, tenders, fishing boats, yachts, commercial vessels, and the required certificates.
Get help to classify textiles and which headings and codes to use.
How to apply for certification, the register of growers and fees for crop and tuber inspections under the Seed Potato Classification Scheme (SPCS).
Get help to classify drones and aircraft parts for import and export.
How to classify and describe your business waste so you can know how to manage and dispose of it - what you need to do, List of Waste (LoW) codes, technical guidance.
Beef abattoirs must dress, categorise, classify, weigh and label carcases according to regulations, and communicate results to suppliers.
Get help to classify ceramic articles for import and export.
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Get help to classify cigarettes, cigars, raw tobacco, smoking tobacco, tobacco for heating and nicotine substitutes for import and export.
Get help to classify articles of leather and other items in chapter 42 of the tariff for import and export.
Get help to classify herbal medicines, vitamins, food preparations, supplements and tonics for import and export.
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