The Customs Grant Scheme has been set up to help businesses prepare for new customs arrangements from 1 January 2021. This includes supporting businesses who trade with the EU to undertake training to improve their understanding of customs requirements and working with customs intermediaries. It also helps customs intermediaries increase their capacity to complete customs declarations and accelerate growth of the sector in order to meet the increased demand it will see from 1 January...
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Innovate UK, part of UK Research and Innovation, will invest up to £2 million from the Smart Sustainable Plastic Packaging Programme (SSPP) for early-stage projects, businesses registered in the UK can apply. The SSPP Challenge aims to establish the UK as a leading innovator in smart and sustainable plastic packaging for consumer products. Its goals are to deliver cleaner growth across the supply chain, with a dramatic reduction in plastic waste entering the environment by...
Higher-level restrictions will come into force to control rapidly accelerating coronavirus rates across Wales. The First Minister, Mark Drakeford, confirmed the current conditions mean Wales has met the criteria in the new traffic-light Coronavirus Control Plan to move to alert level four. The new restrictions will apply to all of Wales: all non-essential retail, including close contact services and all leisure and fitness centres will close at the end of trading on Christmas Eve all...
In response to pressures on local and national supply chains, the Department for Transport has introduced a temporary, and limited, urgent relaxation of the enforcement of EU drivers’ hours rules in England, Scotland and Wales. This temporary relaxation will run until 11:59pm on 30 December 2020. The relaxation applies to anyone driving within Great Britain under the EU drivers’ hours rules involved in the transport of: Food and other essential goods from ports within Great...
Personal data is any information that can be used to identify a person, including names, delivery details, IP addresses, or HR data such as payroll details. Most organisations use personal data in their daily operations. An example of this is a UK company that receives customer information from an EU company, such as names and addresses, to provide goods or services. If you receive personal data from the EU/EEA act now to ensure you can...
Do you or someone you know run an inspirational small business that fits the bill for #TheSmallAwards then don't miss out and apply for 2021! The judges will be looking for evidences of strong community engagement from small businesses whilst also looking for strong performance as an on-going business. The categories are: High Street Hero – best high street business Bricks and Clicks Award – best multi-channel small business Legacy Award – best family business...
As companies get busier in the run-up to the festive period, they must all still have measures in place to protect workers, visitors and customers from the risk of coronavirus (COVID-19). Throughout December the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) will continue to carry out spot checks and inspections by calling and visiting businesses to check they are COVID-secure. During the calls and visits, the HSE provide advice and guidance to manage risk and protect workers...
EU businesses taxes and tariffs: Guidance has been issued covering what taxes and tariffs EU businesses might need to pay when trading with the UK from 1 January 2021. For more information visit the GOV.UK website. EU businesses exporting to the UK: Guidance has been issued for EU businesses to find out what they need to do to export to the UK from 1 January 2021. For more information visit the GOV.UK website. EU businesses...
The Welsh Government have published an update to their Coronavirus Control Plan, which builds on the traffic-light framework of restrictions originally put in place in May 2020. The revised plan puts in place four alert levels, aligned to the measures that will need to be in place to control the spread of the virus through the difficult winter months ahead and to protect people’s health. It also sets out how and when Wales will move...
The way that opportunities to supply the UK public sector are advertised is about to change. From 23:00 on 31 December 2020, information will be published on public sector contract opportunities in the UK, on the new Find a Tender Service (FTS): FTS is free to use and replaces the role of Tenders Electronic Daily, the Official Journal of the EU (OJEU/TED) for procurements in the UK. FTS will work alongside existing procurement portals such...