Egg production and marketing

Services

Egg packing centre: registration

Form for packing centres to apply for approval to pack eggs.
Egg production site: registration

Form to register an egg production establishment.
Egg hatchery and chick breeding premises: registration

Form to register an establishment used for hatching egg and chick production.
Egg packing centre: application for designation

Form to apply for designation as a premises for grading and packing eggs.
Egg marketing: technical inspection report

Documents used to record egg inspections.

Egg marketing standards
- Detailed guide
- 12 December 2023
- Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs
UK tariff rate quotas 2022
- Detailed guide
- 17 January 2023
- Rural Payments Agency
Eggs marketing: guidance on the legislation
- Guidance
- 1 July 2020
- Animal and Plant Health Agency
UK tariff rate quotas 2021
- Detailed guide
- 26 January 2022
- Rural Payments Agency
Hatching eggs and chicks marketing standards
- Detailed guide
- 15 February 2021
- Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs

Proposed changes to egg labelling rules support British industry
- 9 January 2024
- Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs
- Press release
Government launches review to increase fairness in the egg supply chain
- 31 October 2023
- Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs
- Press release

Northern Ireland Food and Drinks Processing Report 2019
- 30 July 2021
- Department of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs (Northern Ireland) and Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency
- National statistics

Eggs: removing the 16 week derogation period in egg marketing standards
- 27 August 2024
- Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs
- Consultation outcome
- Date closed 05 March 2024
Changes to Egg Marketing Standards legislation in Great Britain
- 8 November 2021
- Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs, Welsh Government, and The Scottish Government
- Consultation outcome
- Date closed 16 August 2021
Organics: provisional common framework
- 3 February 2022
- Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs
- Policy paper