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Better Regulation - improving our advice and guidance to business

Do you need help to understand what your business needs to do to comply with the law?

We provide a wide range of advice and guidance to help you understand what you need to do to comply.

We provide direct advice through our:

  • visits from local staff
  • campaigns and events
  • customer contact centre.

You can find guidance on our:

  • website
  • NetRegs site for small and medium sized businesses
  • publications catalogue.

We also give you good practice advice and guidance to help you improve your environmental performance. This can help you save money and win new business.

To become a better regulator we are working with you to make our advice and guidance clearer, more consistent and easier to use. We’re also working towards recommendations from the Regulators' Compliance Code and the Code of Practice on Guidance on Regulation.

To find out more about the improvements we are making you can read our position statement

If you have any suggestion on how we can become a better regulator please contact the Better Regulation Executive.