The UK has left the EU. Find information and support to help your business manage the changes.
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Guidance: Most recent
Access the latest guidance available, including new rules that will apply to local businesses:
Week beginning 11 January
- Accounting for VAT on goods moving between Great Britain and Northern Ireland from 1 January 2021 (updated)
- Moving personal belongings from Great Britain to Northern Ireland
- How to move goods from GB to NI via Ireland
Week beginning 4 January
- Trade with Japan from 1 January 2021
- Trading CITES-listed specimens through UK ports and airports
- Using the New Computerised Transit System (NCTS) to move goods (updated)
- Importing and exporting organic food from 1 January 2021 (updated)
- Exporting or moving fish from the UK from 1 January 2021 (updated)
- UK sanctions regimes
- Refunds and waivers on customs debt by HMRC
- Import or export endangered species: check if you need a CITES permit (updated)
- Export groups of products of animal origin to the EU or Northern Ireland
- UK sanctions (updated)
- Protecting geographical food and drink names
- Making an export supplementary declaration
- Apply for a Binding Origin Information decision
- Selling and storing tobacco products
- Nutrition-related labelling, composition and standards from 1 January 2021 (updated)
- Importing or moving live animals, animal products and high risk food and feed not of animal origin from 1 January 2021 (updated)
- Importing or moving fish to the UK from 1 January 2021 (updated)
- NIS Regulations: UK digital service providers operating in the EU
- Apply to operate a temporary storage facility (updated)
- Apply to use simplified declarations for imports (updated)
- Check what you’ll need to get a legally binding decision on a commodity code
- The eCommerce Directive and the UK
- Making an import supplementary declaration
- Making an import declaration in your records
- Changing your company registration from 1 January 2021
- Find software developers providing entry summary declaration support
- Get an export health certificate (updated)
- Find customs agents and fast parcel operators
- Find customs training providers
- Tariffs on goods imported into the UK (updated)
- VAT on movements of goods
- Finding commodity codes for imports into or exports out of the UK
- Using the UKNI marking from 1 January 2021 (updated)
- Using the UKCA mark from 1 January 2021 (updated)
- Placing manufactured goods on the market in Northern Ireland from 1 January 2021 (updated)
- Placing manufactured goods on the market in Great Britain from 1 January 2021 (updated)
- Placing manufactured goods on the EU market from 1 January 2021 (updated)
- Access to copyright works for visually impaired people from 1 January 2021 (updated)
- Changes to copyright law from 1 January 2021 (updated)
- Retaining protection in the UK for EU intellectual property rights from 1 January 2021
- Intellectual property after 1 January 2021 (updated)
- Transiting animals and animal products through Great Britain from 1 January 2021 (updated)
- Hatching eggs and chicks marketing standards from 1 January 2021 (updated)
- Fresh fruit and vegetable marketing standards from 1 January 2021 (updated)
- Making phone calls and sending texts to the EU/EEA countries (updated)
- Using your mobile in EU and EEA countries (updated)
- Registering and renewing .eu domain names in the UK after 1 January 2021 (updated)
- Northern Ireland and personal data flows from the EU after 1 January 2021 – key actions (updated)
- Using personal data in your business or other organisation from 1 January 2021 (updated)
- Export controls: dual-use items, software and technology, goods for torture and radioactive sources
- Trading under WTO rules (updated)
- Trading and moving goods in and out of Northern Ireland from 1 January 2021 (updated)
- Check if you can declare goods you bring into Northern Ireland not ‘at risk’ of moving to the EU from 1 January 2021 (updated)
- Apply to become a registered exporter if you’re established in Northern Ireland
- Claim a waiver for duty on goods that you bring to Northern Ireland from Great Britain from 1 January 2021 (updated)
Week beginning 28 December
- Social security contributions for workers coming to the UK from the EEA or Switzerland from 1 January 2021
- National Insurance for workers from the UK working in the EEA or Switzerland from 1 January 2021
- Sending parcels between Great Britain and Northern Ireland from 1 January 2021
- Support Health Attestations for export of products of animal origin and animal by-products from 1 January 2021
- Making an entry summary declaration from 1 January 2021
- HMRC exporting and importing webinars
- Importing and exporting plants and plant products from 1 January 2021 (updated)
- Using CHIEF for declaring goods into or out of Northern Ireland from 1 January 2021 (updated)
- ICO’s resources on data protection and EU exit (updated)
- Prepare your fisheries business for changes from 1 January 2021 (updated)
- Export or move fish to the EU or NI from 1 January 2021 (updated)
- Export or move live animals and animal products to the EU or Northern Ireland from 1 January 2021 (updated)
- Trading and labelling organic food from 1 January 2021 (updated)
- Organic food and drink products – key actions (updated)
- Importing and exporting wine from 1 January 2021 (updated)
- Marketing standards for wine – key actions (updated)
- Customs Declaration Completion Requirements for The Northern Ireland Protocol (updated)
- Bring goods into or through the UK using common and Union transit
- Find out when to make an exit summary declaration
- Get a goods movement reference (updated)
- Selling services to the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland and Liechtenstein from 1 January 2021
- Apply for authorisation for the UK Trader Scheme if you bring goods into Northern Ireland from 1 January 2021 (updated)
- Country guides: Providing services and travelling for business to the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland and Liechtenstein from 1 January 2021 (updated)
- Carrying out international road haulage from 1 January 2021 (updated)
- Export or move horses and ponies to the EU and Northern Ireland from 1 January 2021 (updated)
- Moving goods from a special procedure in one part of the UK to a special procedure in another part of the UK
- Using preference agreements for goods in a customs warehouse
- Republic of Ireland: providing services from 1 January 2021
- Check if Authorised Economic Operator status could benefit you (updated)
- Check if you can claim a preferential rate of duty
- Check what declarations need to be made for goods you send from the UK from 1 January 2021 (updated)
- Check what declarations need to be made for goods you bring or receive into the UK from 1 January 2021 (updated)
- Bidding for overseas government procurement opportunities: what to expect from 1 January 2021
- Claiming preferential rates of duty between the UK and EU from 1 January 2021
- Tell HMRC that you’re going to be attending an inland border facility
- Check if there are any delays at an inland border facility
- Horizon 2020 funding after EU exit (updated)
- EU funding for innovation (updated)
- Conformity assessment bodies: change of status from 1 January 2021 (updated)
- Exporting or moving high risk food and feed of non-animal origin to the EU or Northern Ireland from 1 January 2021 (updated)
- Marketing standards for hatching eggs and chicks – key actions (updated)
- Protecting food and drink names from 1 January 2021 (updated)
- Geographical indications – key actions (updated)
- Food standards and composition from 1 January 2021 (updated)
- Compositional standards for honey and mineral water – key actions (updated)
Week beginning 21 December
- Moving qualifying goods from Northern Ireland to the rest of the UK from 1 January 2021
- Ongoing customs movements and procedures at the end of the transition period (updated)
- Where to get help or advice on issues relating to the end of the transition
- How to use your ATA Carnet
- Starting and ending transit movements in Northern Ireland using common and Union transit
- Check if you can use transit to move goods to the EU and common transit countries
- Check if a goods movement reference is valid
- Get a goods movement reference
- Making a full import declaration
- Making a simplified frontier declaration
- Get proof of origin for your goods
- Check your goods meet the rules of origin
- Key steps for authorised traders moving goods and products from GB into NI during the three-month grace period
- Get your business ready to move goods to the common or EU countries
- Check or report a trade barrier
- How to set up an account to defer duty payments when you import goods from 1 January 2021
- Register for the National Export System to make an export declaration
- Export or move live animals and animal products to the EU or Northern Ireland (updated)
- Import or move horses and ponies from 1 January 2021
- Food labelling: country of origin
- Check if you need to make an entry summary declaration from 1 January 2021 (updated)
- Exporting controlled goods from 1 January 2021
- UK Sanctions
- Take goods temporarily out of the UK
- Import and export goods using preference agreements
- Product safety and metrology from 1 January 2021 – Northern Ireland (updated)
Week beginning 14 December
- Poultry meat marketing standards from 1 January 2021 (updated)
- Egg marketing standards from 1 January 2021 (updated)
- Hops and hops products marketing standards from 1 January 2021 (updated)
- Moving excise goods as freight under the Northern Ireland Protocol from 1 January 2021
- Duty suspensions and tariff quotas from 1 January 2021
- Apply for Designated Export Place approval
- Providing services in the EU – recognition of professional qualifications after 1 January 2021 – key actions
- Moving your goods to common or EU transit countries
- VAT checklist – moving goods from GB to NI from 1 January 2021
- Haulier checklist – moving goods GB to NI (direct movements) from 1 January 2021
- Ongoing customs movements and procedures at the end of the transition period
- Exporting or moving high-risk food and feed of non-animal origin to the EU or Northern Ireland
- Trade marks and geographical indications after 1 January 2021
- Wood packaging material for import and export from 1 January 2021
- Taking merchandise from the UK in your baggage
- Bringing merchandise to the UK in your baggage
- Movement Assistance Scheme: get help with moving agrifood goods to Northern Ireland
- Attending an inland border facility from 1 January 2021 (updated)
- Driving for a living in the EU from 1 January 2021 (updated)
- Supplementary protection certificates from 1 January 2021
- How to register and use the Excise Movement and Control System from 1 January 2021
- EU Exit: .eu domain names and the transition period (updated)
- Export or move live animals and animal products to the EU or Northern Ireland from 1 January 2021 (updated)
- Export or move composite food products to the EU or Northern Ireland from 1 January 2021 (updated)
- Check how to move goods through ports that use the Goods Vehicle Movement Service
- Export food, drink and agricultural products
- Register for the Goods Vehicle Movement Service
Week beginning 07 December
- EU Exit: Chemicals – steps to take if you import from Great Britain to Northern Ireland
- Trading and moving endangered species protected by CITES from 1 January 2021
- Prepare your fisheries business for changes from 1 January 2021 (updated)
- Changes to legal rulings for the origin of goods from 1 January 2021
- Check if Authorised Economic Operator status could benefit you
- Inward Processing
- End-use relief
- Customs warehousing
- Outward Processing
- Temporary admission
- Changes to labelling food sold in Northern Ireland – key actions
- Importing and exporting waste from 1 January 2021
- Apply to operate a customs warehouse
- Get access to the Customs Declaration Service
- Northern Ireland professional services sector – key actions
- How VAT will apply for goods imported into Northern Ireland from outside the UK or EU
- Pay VAT when you sell digital services to EU consumers from 1 January 2021
- Changes to legal rulings for the classification of goods from 1 January 2021 (updated)
- Get an EORI number (updated)
- EU exit: Sign up for the Trader Support Service to move goods into and out of Northern Ireland (updated)
- Apply for action to protect your intellectual property rights
- EU exit readiness checklist – 10 steps to take (updated)
- Check if you need a customs guarantee (updated)
- Brexit: Placing an e-cigarette on the market from 1 January 2021
Week beginning 30 November
- Providing services and travelling for business to the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland and Liechtenstein from 1 January 2021 (updated)
- Guidance for UK businesses providing services in the Republic of Ireland from 1 January 2021 (updated)
- EU trade mark protection and comparable UK trade marks from 1 January 2021 (updated)
- Changes to EU and international designs and trade mark protection from 1 January 2021 (updated)
- Get an EORI number (updated)
- Register to make an entry summary declaration in Northern Ireland from 1 January 2021
- UK tariffs from 1 January 2021 (updated)
- Online tool – exporting and importing services between Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland from 2021
Week beginning 23 November
- Export licences and certificates from 1 January 2021
- Exhaustion of IP rights and parallel trade from 1 January 2021
- Changes to international trade mark registrations after 1 January 2021
- Changes to unregistered designs from 1 January 2021
- Address for service for intellectual property rights from 1 January 2021
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