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Winners demonstrate support for hallmarking excellence and help to protect consumers.
Hallmarking was in the spotlight at the Chartered Trading Standards Conference in Birmingham in June 2023 with the presentation of the Touchstone Award.
Two jewellery businesses with an emphasis on creating bespoke commissions are the joint winners of the HALO Award 2023.
Intellectual property protection specialists WRi Group win the Touchstone Special Recognition Award 2022.
The British Hallmarking Council and National Association of Jewellers announce the winners of the inaugural Hallmarking Awareness and Learning Online Award.
The Award will be presented to the retailer who has run the most effective online initiative relating to the display of the new format Dealers Notice and education surrounding UK hallmarking.
The dedication and inventiveness of the winners of the 2021 Touchstone Award highlight the importance of hallmarking enforcement, writes Ken Daly in the Journal of Trading Standards.
We're looking for 3 new Council members. The closing date for applications is Sunday, 29 August 2021.
All 4 offices have now reopened and are providing assay services.
All 4 offices will be closed for at least 3 weeks.
All dealers supplying precious metal items must display the new version from 1 May 2020.
We need 2 new Council members, find out how to apply.
Shared Regulatory Services (SRS) won the prestigious BHC Touchstone Award, co-sponsored by the National Association of Jewellers.
The Touchstone Award, sponsored by the British Hallmarking Council, is a national award for trading standards in hallmarking.
The UK’s hallmarking system is one of the oldest and most robust in the world. The Touchstone Award aims to emphasise its continuing importance, as Marion Wilson explains.
Noel Hunter OBE has been appointed as Chairman of the British Hallmarking Council with effect from 6 April 2017.
The Touchstone Award, sponsored by the British Hallmarking Council (BHC), is a national award for trading standards in hallmarking.
First published during the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government
David Willetts, Minister for Universities and Science, has made 4 new appointments to the British Hallmarking Council.
The British Hallmarking Council (BHC) clarifies the legal position on marking bonded gold, rolled gold and gold plated products.
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