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The principal legislation on copyright can be found in the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988.
Learn about the services we offer to businesses that enable you to check SIA licences, submit licence applications, and pay the licence application fee.
Guidance for businesses.
Electricity Act 1989: Statutory register of all pattern approved electricity meters suitable for billing purposes in the UK.
Create a label for an energy-related product (ErP) that you make or sell to UK customers, for example white goods, boilers and other household appliances.
Links to data provided by suppliers as part of the temporary road fuel price open data scheme.
What you need to do to comply with regulations on manufactured goods you place on the EU market.
Sets out the requirements for satisfying professional competence.
Guidance for businesses explaining the rules on payment surcharges.
Intellectual property can be bought, sold or licensed.
Guidance for manufacturers, importers, distributors and retailers.
How to apply for standard rules and bespoke permits for A1 installations, including low impact installations.
Guidance for businesses and their advisers on CMA's procedures for operating the merger control regime under the Enterprise Act 2002.
Find out how SIA licensing applies to someone using a drone.
Guidance for food businesses on the Weights and Measures (Food) (Amendment) Regulations 2014.
The guide, toolkit and further information for GB authorities with responsibility for consumer product safety.
To protect your trade mark outside of the UK, you usually need to apply in each country you want protection in.
Guidance for manufacturers, importers and distributors on the Product Security and Telecommunications Infrastructure Act 2022 and Regulations 2023.
Find out what information you need to show on products made of or containing meat that you sell to the public.
Answers to the questions most commonly asked by licence applicants and licence holders about the changes that we are making.
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