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Weights and measures - find out the law on trading standards for packaging and selling products
You must use metric measurements (grams, kilograms, millilitres or litres)…
Some goods must be sold in fixed sizes known as ‘specified quantities’.…
Packaged goods are products that are all of these: sold sealed between 5g…
Equipment for packaged goods The equipment you use to weigh or measure…
You must put the weight or volume of your packaged goods on the label. The…
What packaged goods are, how they are labelled, units of measurements used and compliance with weights and measures regulation.
Examples of how and when to adjust the customs value for commercial level and quantity when using Methods 2 or 3 if you’re an importer or clearing agent.
Guidance for food businesses on the Weights and Measures (Food) (Amendment) Regulations 2014.
How to use Method 4 to work out the customs value of your imported goods if you’re an importer or clearing agent.
Ensuring you get what you pay for.
List of different types of quantities and their corresponding codes on Customs Handling of Import and Export Freight.
Find out how to express the mass of a fluorinated greenhouse gas (F gas) in terms of carbon dioxide equivalent to comply with regulations on F gases.
Explains planning controls relating to the storage of hazardous substances in England and how to handle development proposals around hazardous establishments.
Food and drink labelling and packaging regulations - what you must show, warnings, health and organic labels and packaging standards.
Allocation coefficients and decision
Allocation coefficients and decisions
Find the measurement unit codes for Data Elements 2/3 and 4/4 when making a declaration to the Customs Declaration Service (Appendix 20).
How to use a cost utility analysis to evaluate your digital health product.
Find out the information you must give to customers on food products and how to give it.
As a vet or pharmacist, you must follow legal requirements when working with controlled drugs in veterinary medicine.
Find out if you need a UK Agricultural Policy (UKAP) licence to become an importer/exporter of agricultural produce and how to apply.
Form A is used to give proof of origin for goods being imported from countries covered by the Developing Countries Trading Scheme.
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