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If you're advertising or marketing, including direct marketing, you must be accurate and honest and follow the advertising codes of practice
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Guidance on applying for a Marketing Authorisation for Decentralised Manufacture, including eligibility, process, and requirements.
Guidance for the pharmaceutical industry on Marketing Authorisations for veterinary medicines in the UK.
Guidance for the pharmaceutical industry on how to apply to vary a veterinary Marketing Authorisation (MA) or Homeopathic Remedy.
Apply for changes to your marketing authorisation, including minor variations type IA and IB, major variations type II and extensions.
Who in the pharmaceutical industry can be a Marketing Authorisation Holder, named distributor or local representative and how to make changes to these.
Marketing authorisations Granted in 2026.
Marking, labelling and marketing standards you must follow to import and export plant seeds, food and manufactured goods.
Details of the process changes for established medicines, effective from 1 March 2024, which apply specifically to chemical products.
Information for people who wish to apply to release a vaccine or a blood product to market in the UK.
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