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Find out if a restaurant, takeaway or food shop has good food hygiene standards.
Find out about the different types of delivery costs, and which ones you must include or exclude in the customs value if you’re an importer or clearing agent.
A guide to collecting data about your packaging. This is for UK organisations affected by extended producer responsibility (EPR) for packaging.
Food and drink labelling and packaging regulations - what you must show, warnings, health and organic labels and packaging standards.
Browse cases data for specific areas within the UK.
Apply for an Innovator Founder visa if you've been endorsed for a business idea: eligibility, documents, extend or switch, bring your family.
How sellers deal with VAT for goods from overseas that they sell direct to customers in the UK.
Labelling rules for businesses in Great Britain (England, Scotland and Wales) and retailers in Northern Ireland, for certain agri-food products moved under the Northern Ireland Retail Movement Scheme.
Quality and labelling rules for growing, packing, distributing, importing and selling fresh fruit and vegetables.
Guidance for industry on flexible approaches we are taking on good distribution practices.
Find out which types of food are zero-rated and which are standard-rated for VAT purposes.
Intellectual property can be bought, sold or licensed.
Results from the government’s monitoring of pesticide residues in food, reviewed by the Expert Committee on Pesticide Residues in Food (PRiF).
How food shops, manufacturers, and distributors must dispose of or handle former foodstuffs or food waste.
Explanations of the different terms you might see on your driving licence
Rules for importing, exporting and moving fresh fruit and vegetables to, from and around the UK.
Obligated packaging producers must register and meet their waste packaging recycling responsibilities.
The King's Awards for Enterprise - how to enter, online entry forms, guidance notes, deadline, nominations, award categories
Tell the CMA about competition and consumer issues.
Guidance for food businesses on the Weights and Measures (Food) (Amendment) Regulations 2014.
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