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Get help to classify herbal medicines, vitamins, food preparations, supplements and tonics for import and export.
What you need to do to export or move food, drink and agricultural products.
What denatured alcohol is, and how you apply for authorisation to produce, stock, distribute, sell or use it.
Guidance for the Soft Drinks Industry Levy. Including how to check if your drink is liable, as well as how to register, submit returns and pay your bill.
What you need to do as a food and drink business to work with the EU.
Submit a return (EX606) to declare duty on wine, cider and other fermented products (formally made-wine) each month.
Rules for local authorities to follow when registering a premises to produce bottled drinking water, or carrying out ongoing checks.
Webinars on changes to importing food and drink, including composite food and fishery products from the EU to Great Britain.
Find out when and how to register for the levy.
See the list of applications to protect the geographical name of wine and aromatised wine in the UK.
Find out if you need to apply for approval to sell alcohol to another business.
How to register as a producer, and the rules you must follow to produce and market bottled drinking water.
More people could be encouraged to purchase alcohol-free drinks under government proposals to make alternatives to alcoholic drinks more widely available.
Find out about the UK geographical indication (GI) schemes that protect the geographical names of food, drink and agricultural products, and the UK GI schemes registers.
You may need to register for the levy if you produce or package liable drinks, and you're not a small producer.
Weights and measures - find out the law on trading standards for packaging and selling products
Apply for protected designation of origin (PDO) or protected geographical indication (PGI) of a food, drink or agricultural product name under the UK GI scheme.
How to change the specification of a product name registered under the UK GI schemes, and object to a substantial change.
How to object to an application to register for UK geographical indication (GI) protection, change or cancel a product specification and how to appeal against a decision.
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