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Understand how preventative design measures can reduce the risk of harms happening on your online platform.
If you're advertising or marketing, including direct marketing, you must be accurate and honest and follow the advertising codes of practice
All marketing and advertising must be: an accurate description of the…
Advertising to consumers The Consumer Protection from Unfair Trading…
There are 2 advertising codes of practice that describe how businesses…
You must describe your product accurately. This means if you make a claim…
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How to renew your patents, trade marks or registered designs: when to renew, how to renew online or renew and restore by post, how much it costs.
The UK government's design principles and examples of how they've been used.
Protect your brand by registering it as a trade mark - how to apply, fees, responding to objections to your trade mark, using the ® symbol
The British Hallmarking Council's HALO award 2023 is open for submissions.
Practical steps to manage the risk of online harm if your online platform allows people to create anonymous or multiple accounts.
If you manage an online platform that allows user generated content, these 7 steps will help you keep your business and your users safe.
Anyone in Northern Ireland selling medicines to the public via a website must still comply with the requirement to apply the EU common logo.
This playbook explains how we use social media at GDS. In it, we share our best practice, what we've learned and what we're planning to do.
Find out what online harms are, how to manage them, and where to report them if they occur.
Quality and labelling rules for growing, packing, distributing, importing and selling fresh fruit and vegetables.
This page provides a guide for those interested in key upcoming digital regulatory activity being explored, developed or implemented by government. It covers a range of governance activities, from legislative change to the development of co-regulatory and self-regulatory frameworks.
What you need to do now that the eCommerce Directive no longer applies to the UK.
Register a design - what designs are protected, search the registers, prepare your illustrations, how to apply, disclaimers and limitations.
Apply for changes to your marketing authorisation, including minor variations type IA and IB, major variations type II and extensions.
The Competition and Market Authority (CMA)'s work aims to tackle potentially harmful online selling practices.
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