Licences and permits
The permissions a business needs before it can trade, each one tied to the law that creates it and to the body that issues it. We point at GOV.UK for fees and forms, and never copy them.
4 of 426 licences for Pharmaceuticals and medicinal products
Choose from all 48 activities
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Discharging effluent (Scotland)
Get permission to send liquid waste out from factories or places where sewage is dealt with and find how to contact Scottish water suppliers …
Scottish Government · Scotland
Discharging effluent or waste water (England)
You may need an environmental permit to discharge liquid effluent or waste water to surface water or the ground.
Environment Agency · England
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Licence for regulated scientific procedures on protected animals
You need a licence to do experimental or scientific procedures on protected animals
Home Office · England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland
Licence to possess or sell drug precursor chemicals
You need a licence from the Home Office to possess or sell drug precursor chemicals
Home Office · England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland
We have not yet mapped an enabling instrument for 1 licence on this list. That is a gap in our graph, not a statement about the law, and those pages say so rather than guessing.
Checking approvals more broadly?
A licence is one of several things you may need before your first day of trading. The pre-trading quick check walks the registrations, insurances and approvals alongside it.
Not sure which of these apply to you?
Our guides on finding a licence and dealing with your local council walk through the questions that decide it.