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How to manage a temporary storage facility, how to handle goods, what records to keep, how to increase the size of, or move goods between facilities.
Check if you can operate a facility and meet the conditions to store imported goods temporarily and find out how to apply.
How to get a handling or storage site approved, how to store animal by-products (ABPs) and derived products, and how to build the site.
Check how you can operate an authorised consignee temporary storage facility so you can store goods for up to 6 days, including how to get authorised.
A guide on what to look out for when signing up to a cloud storage service.
This exemption allows you to temporarily store waste you have produced when working away from your normal business premises.
Find out about movements to temporary storage facilities from border locations in Great Britain operating the pre-lodgement model.
Putting your goods into temporary storage means you can delay the full customs declaration and payment of import VAT and duty for up to 90 days.
S2 waste exemption allows you to store specific waste at a secure intermediate site, separate to where the waste was produced, before transportation to another site for recovery.
An overview of our priorities at Sellafield and the progress we're making in the clean-up of the most hazardous buildings, the legacy ponds and silos.
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