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Get help to classify articles of leather and other items in chapter 42 of the tariff for import and export.
From 1 October 2024, more materials facilities will need to sample and report their waste. Sampling and reporting will be more detailed and more frequent under the amended regulations.
How to assess household and non-household packaging from 2024 onwards if you’re a UK organisation affected by extended producer responsibility (EPR) for packaging.
Use the case studies to help you decide when your goods may (or may not) go beyond insufficient production.
Obligated packaging producers must register and meet their waste packaging recycling responsibilities.
If you use, produce or supply wood packaging material (WPM) to move goods to or from the EU or the rest of the world, you must make sure it meets international standards.
Advice and guidance on the health needs of migrant patients for healthcare practitioners.
Get help to classify edible vegetables, roots, tubers, herbs, spices, fruit, nuts and peel for import and export.
The rules, paperwork and training you need to transport dangerous goods
Requirements for solid wood packaging used to import or export goods
Food and drink labelling and packaging regulations - what you must show, warnings, health and organic labels and packaging standards.
The S1 waste exemption lets you store certain waste in secure containers at a site separate to where it was produced, before transportation to another site for recovery.
Rules of shackle line operations, waterbath and gas stunners, and facilities for slaughtering poultry, rabbits and hares in abattoirs.
How to import bananas into the UK by weighing consignments and making simplified declarations.
Rules you must follow, who’s responsible, when to tell the Environment Agency and what to do if you get an enforcement notice.
Find out if the goods you're declaring to inward or outward processing are classed as sensitive goods.
How UK organisations that supply or import packaging should comply with extended producer responsibility (EPR) for packaging.
Packaging regulations: environmental requirements, recycling
How to store oil, design standards for tanks and containers, where to locate and how to protect them, and capacity of bunds and drip trays.
Register a new manufacturer's mark and access lists of approved and inactive measuring container bottles (MCB) marks.
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