EU Exit: Support for your business
The UK has left the EU. Find information and support to help your business manage the changes.
NOTE: If helplines and online services offering assistance with your enquiries are busy, we advise that you review online guidance in the first instance. Find an overview of quick links to information and contacts that may help to assist with your queries.
Guidance: Most recent
Access the latest guidance available, including new rules that will apply to local businesses:
Week beginning 5 April
- SME Brexit Support Fund: Grants to help businesses new to importing or exporting (updated)
- Exporting or moving high-risk food and feed of non-animal origin to the EU or Northern Ireland from 1 January 2021 (updated)
- Movement Assistance Scheme: get help with moving agrifood goods to Northern Ireland (updated)
Week beginning 29 March
- Export horses and ponies: special rules (updated)
- Export or move livestock and poultry from GB to Northern Ireland (updated)
- Export or move live animals and animal products to the EU or Northern Ireland from 1 January 2021 (updated)
- Apply for an ATA Carnet (updated)
- Export or move composite food products after 1 January 2021 (updated)
- Trading and moving goods in and out of Northern Ireland from 1 January 2021 (updated)
- Moving goods to Northern Ireland from Great Britain: Actions for businesses in GB
Week beginning 22 March
- Hops and hops products marketing standards from 1 January 2021 (updated)
- Importing and exporting organic food from 1 January 2021 (updated)
- Importing and exporting wine from 1 January 2021 (updated)
- Making a full export declaration (updated)
- Find out when to make an exit summary declaration (updated)
- Bringing live animals to NI from EU via the GB landbridge
- Sanitary and phytosanitary (SPS) checks: live animals transiting the GB landbridge
- Importing or moving fish to the UK from 1 January 2021 (updated)
- Apply for a Binding Tariff Information decision
- Starting and ending transit movements in Northern Ireland using common and Union transit (updated)
- Appeal against decisions on UK protected geographical food and drink names (updated)
Week beginning 15 March
- Using CHIEF for declaring goods into or out of Northern Ireland (updated)
- Check when you can account for import VAT on your VAT Return (updated)
- Check if you need to make an entry summary declaration from 1 January 2021 (updated)
- Making an import declaration in your records (updated)
- Making an entry summary declaration from 1 January 2021 (updated)
- Registering and renewing .eu domain names in the UK after 1 January 2021 (updated)
- SME Brexit Support Fund: Grants to help businesses new to importing or exporting
Week beginning 8 March
- Importing or moving live animals, animal products and high risk food and feed not of animal origin from 1 January 2021 (updated)
- Export food, drink and agricultural products (updated)
- Export or move animal bones, protein and other by-products from GB to Northern Irelan (updated)
- Address for service for intellectual property rights from 1 January 2021 (updated)
- Using personal data in your business or other organisation from 1 January 2021 (updated)
Week beginning 1 March
- 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
- Poultry meat marketing standards from 1 January 2021 (updated)
- Check if you need a customs guarantee (updated)
- Check if you need to declare goods you bring into or take out of the UK
- 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
Week beginning 15 February
- Check how to move goods through ports that use the Goods Vehicle Movement Service (updated)
- 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
- 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
- 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 a CPD Carnet
- 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)
- 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)
- 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
Guidance: By business topic
Find current information available:
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- EU exit and innovation and R&D >
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- EU exit and efficiency and the environment >
- EU exit and food & drink >
- EU exit and manufacturing >
- EU exit and retail >