EU Exit: Support for your business

The UK has left the EU. Find information and support to help your business manage the changes.
 

Guidance: Most recent

Access the latest guidance available, including new rules that will apply to local businesses:

Week beginning 1 March

• Making an entry summary declaration from 1 January 2021 (updated)
• Trading CITES-listed specimens through UK ports and airport (updated)
• Import or export endangered species: check if you need a CITES permit (updated)
• Apply for authorisation for the UK Trader Scheme if you bring goods into 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)
• Moving F gas between Great Britain and Northern Ireland
• Sending parcels between Great Britain and Northern Ireland from 1 January 2021
• Export or move composite food products after 1 January 2021 (updated)
• Importing and exporting organic food from 1 January 2021 (updated)
• Importing and exporting wine from 1 January 2021 (updated)
• Poultry meat marketing standards from 1 January 2021 (updated)
• Export food, drink and agricultural products (updated)
• Exporting or moving high-risk food and feed of non-animal origin to the EU or Northern Ireland from 1 January 2021 (updated)
• Check if you need a customs guarantee (updated)
• Movement Assistance Scheme: get help with moving agrifood goods to Northern Ireland (updated)
• Check if you need to declare goods you bring into or take out of the UK
• Making a full export declaration
• Exporting or moving fish from the UK from 1 January 2021 (updated)
• Finding commodity codes for imports into or exports out of the UK (updated)
• Get proof of origin for your goods (updated)

Week beginning 22 February

• International EU protected designs after 1 January 2021 (updated)

Week beginning 15 February

• Check how to move goods through ports that use the Goods Vehicle Movement Service (updated)
• Export or move live animals and animal products to the EU or Northern Ireland from 1 January 2021 (updated)
• Check when you can account for import VAT on your VAT Return
• Get a goods movement reference (updated)
• Claim VAT refunds in Northern Ireland or the EU, if you're established in Northern Ireland or in the EU
• New documentation requirements for traders moving permitted chilled meats from GB to NI
• Importing prohibited and restricted chilled meat products to NI from GB
• Trading and moving goods in and out of Northern Ireland from 1 January 2021 (updated)
• Check if a goods movement reference is valid (updated)
• Register for the Goods Vehicle Movement Service (updated)
• Check a job applicant's entitlement to work in the UK (updated)
• Recruiting people from outside the UK
• Social security contributions for workers coming to the UK from the EEA or Switzerland from 1 January 2021 (updated)
• National Insurance for workers from the UK working in the EEA or Switzerland from 1 January 2021 (updated)
• Grants to help small and medium-sized businesses new to importing or exporting

Week beginning 8 February

• Using the UKNI marking from 1 January 2021 (updated)
• Using the UKCA mark from 1 January 2021 (updated)
• EURid's update on UK-owned .eu domain names
• Registering and renewing .eu domain names in the UK after 1 January 2021 (updated)
• EU Exit: Seafood Disruption Support Scheme now open
• EU Exit: Seasonal Workers Pilot
• Importing and exporting plants and plant products

Week beginning 1 February

• EU to Northern Ireland trade - EU sources of support and guidance
• Moving fishery products or bivalve molluscs from Great Britain and non EU countries into Northern Ireland
• Using CHIEF for declaring goods into or out of Northern Ireland (updated)
• EU exit - local trade advice and support organisations

Week beginning 25 January

• DAERA guidance on moving animals, plants, food and feed from GB to NI from 1 January 2021 (updated)
• What supporting evidence you'll need to declare you're goods not 'at risk'
• Tell HMRC if you sell goods in Northern Ireland or move goods between Northern Ireland and the EU
• Get proof of origin for your goods (updated)
• Claiming preferential rates of duty between the UK and EU from 1 January 2021 (updated)
• Report goods exported to the EU using inward or outward processing
• Changes to international trade mark registrations after 1 January 2021 (updated)

Week beginning 18 January

• Customs Declaration Completion Requirements for The Northern Ireland Protocol (updated)
• Prepare for the new supplementary declaration digital service
• UK visa sponsorship for employers
• Employing EU citizens in the UK
• Providing services to the EU - recognition of professional qualifications
• EU Exit: Business travel
• Get your EU professional qualification recognised in the UK
• Social security contributions for workers coming to the UK from the EEA or Switzerland from 1 January 2021 (updated)
• National Insurance for workers from the UK working in the EEA or Switzerland from 1 January 2021 (updated)
• UK points-based immigration system: employer information
• EU Exit support for employers (updated)
• Claim a waiver for duty on goods that you bring to Northern Ireland from Great Britain from 1 January 2021 (updated)
• The eCommerce Directive and the UK (updated)
• Apply for an ATA Carnet
• Apply for a CPD Carnet
• Export or move livestock and poultry from GB to Northern Ireland
• Export or move animal bones, protein and other by-products from GB to Northern Ireland
• Export or move animal feed or pet food from GB to Northern Ireland
• EU exit readiness checklist - 10 steps to take (updated)
• Importing or moving live animals, animal products and high risk food and feed not of animal origin from 1 January 2021 (updated)
• Moving personal belongings from Great Britain to Northern Ireland (updated)

Week beginning 11 January

• Sales of second-hand motor vehicles in Northern Ireland
• Intellectual property after 1 January 2021 (updated)
• Address for service for intellectual property rights from 1 January 2021 (updated)
• Using CHIEF for declaring goods into or out of Northern Ireland (updated)
• Making an indirect export from Northern Ireland
• Moving qualifying goods from Northern Ireland to the rest of the UK from 1 January 2021 (updated)
• Accounting for VAT on goods moving between Great Britain and Northern Ireland from 1 January 2021 (updated)
• How to move goods from GB to NI via Ireland

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Guidance: Most popular

• EU exit readiness checklist - 10 steps to take >
• Sign up for the Trader Support Service >
• Get an EORI number >
• Customs processes for moving goods from GB to NI >
• Moving excise goods as freight under the Northern Ireland Protocol from 1 January 2021 >