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What packaged goods are, how they are labelled, units of measurements used and compliance with weights and measures regulation.
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…
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.
List of different types of quantities and their corresponding codes on Customs Handling of Import and Export Freight.
Interpretation of exemptions that allow alternative transport rules for the retail distribution of small quantities of dangerous goods (note 7).
Explains planning controls relating to the storage of hazardous substances in England and how to handle development proposals around hazardous establishments.
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.
As a vet or pharmacist, you must follow legal requirements when working with controlled drugs in veterinary medicine.
Information on carrying medicine containing controlled drugs for individual travellers entering or leaving the UK.
International regulations and required documentation for hauliers transporting dangerous or hazardous goods by road or by vehicles on ships.
The rules, paperwork and training you need to transport dangerous goods
'Pint’ size wine stocked on Britain’s shelves for the first time ever thanks to new freedoms from leaving the European Union
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